From Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Residency March – April 2017
Project about etching and aquatint on copper plate
Sorcha Avalon Mackenzie is a 24 year old Melbourne based artist. Having studied printmaking at VCA she explores her work primarily through intaglio etchings and drawing. She has continued developing her practice and exhibited with studios and galleries in Japan, Spain and Finland.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2011 Completed International Baccalaureate at Ivanhoe Grammar School
2012-2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) – Victorian College of the Arts
RESIDENCIES
2017 Art Print Residence Print Studio, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Haihatus Residence Program, Joutsa, Finland
2016 3331 Arts Chiyoda AIR Program, Tokyo, Japan
2016 The Suburban Review, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Collaboration with ZABO HOUSE Print Studio, Tokyo, Japan
2015 3331 Arts Chiyoda AIR Program, Tokyo , Japan
PRINTMAKING SKILLS
o Hardground Technique
o Aquatint
o Dry Point’Etching
o Filing and Cleaning Copper Plates
o Plate and Stone Lithography
o Photolithography
o Competent in Editioing and Printing plates
o Adjusting Press
Exhibitions
2017 Hear Me Out show, Collingwood Arts Precint, Melbourne
2017 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2017 Banyule Works on Paper Award, Melbourne
2017 Haihatus Resident Artist Group Show, Finland
2016 Emerging Art Australia Group Show,
2016 ‘NETWORKS II’ Solo Show with Phoebe Beard,
Yonder Art Space, Melbourne
2016 ‘NETWORKS’ Solo Show with Phoebe Beard,
Alternating Current Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Group Show, Beth Hulme Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 ‘BETWIXT’ Solo Show, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2016 ‘Painting’ 2016 Group Show, Brunswick Street Gallery
2015 ‘Fragment’ Solo Show, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2015 ‘Through Haze’ Solo Show, Brunswick Street Gallery
2015 Emerging Art Australian Group Show, Hogan Gallery
2015 ‘Misc’ Group Show, The Union Club Hotel
2014 IMC Satellite International and Interpretation Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda
2014 Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Show
2014 ‘Drawn Drawn’, George Patton USMU gallery
2014 ‘Labyrinthine’, Louey And Lane Gallery Solo Show
2014 ‘Proud ’ Annual Prize Show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
2014 ‘Fill’ Group Show VCA Student Gallery
2013 ‘Proud’ Annual Prize Show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
2013 ‘This is That’ Group Show, VCA student Gallery
2013 Group Show, The Workers Club
2012 Second Semester Student Group Show, Student Gallery VCA
2012 ‘Proud’ Annual Prize Show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
2012 First Semester Student Group Show, Student Gallery VCA
2012 International Baccalaureate Visual Show, Glen Ira Town Hall Gallery Space
2011 Graduate Year Student Show, Round Square Gallery, Ivanhoe Grammar School
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014 Lionel Gell Foundation Award
2013 Stella Dilger Award for Excellence
2013 Louey and Lane Exhibition Award
2011 The Randall Marsh Art and Design Prize