ARTIST STATEMENT

Gemma Mackenzie is an artist whose practice investigates the shifting dynamics between control and its collapse, the reversible and the irreversible, and the transitional states that occupy the space between these conditions. Everyday worries form a central focus within her work, including themes such as climate change, growing mould, health anxiety, and self‑image. She questions these ideas through the interaction between materials and the outcomes that emerge when they are combined, working across print, sculptural forms, and drawing. She explores disturbances within form, pattern, and surface, revealing the tensions that arise through processes of transformation and disruption. She wants her work to make light of these situations, opening up space for conversation and allowing others to recognise their own experiences within them.  

Exhibitions

Studio KIND. Summer Open 2026 : Studio KIND. Barnstaple 2026

Auto Amor: Traction Project, Exeter 2026

KINections: Fish Factory, Penryn 2026

KINections: The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington 2026

Touché: LUX Center For The Arts, Nebraska 2026

Member’s Open Exhibition: Bloc Projects, Sheffield 2026

Now and Then: Fringe Arts Bath, Bath 2024

Seeing Red: Chapel Arts Studios, Andover 2024

Speaking Out: Changing Times: The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington 2024

Out With The Old, In With The New: Studio KIND. X Camp Membership, Barnstaple 2024

AGORED 2023: Galeri Caernarfon, Wales 2023

Studio KIND. Summer Open 2023 : Studio KIND. North Devon 2023

South West Printmaking Open 2022: Studio KIND. North Devon 2022

Bloc Projects Members Show: Bloc Projects, Sheffield 2019

The Bath Open Art Prize: 44AD Gallery, Bath 2019

The Bath Open Art Prize: 44AD Gallery, Bath 2017

Graduate Residency Exhibition: KARST, Plymouth 2017

HOT ’16: Plymouth University Degree Show 2016

Re-Defining Print: Plymouth University Printmakers Exhibition 2015: Exeter Phoenix

‘Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize’ Exhibition 2015, Bank Street Arts

Anatomy For Life Exhibition 2015, Anatomy Lab, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex

‘Mass Medium’ : Graduate Exhibition 2015, Petroc, Barnstaple

‘Containers of the Self’: Juried Exhibition 2015, Black Earth Gallery, Iowa

Residencies / Projects

CAMP Membership KINections 2025/2026

KARST Graduate Residency 2016/17

Education

BA Fine Art: University of Plymouth 2015- 2016

FDA Fine Art: Petroc 2013-2015

BTEC Extended Diploma Art & Design: Petroc 2011-2013