Mackenzie Scott Clowes

Mackenzie is a queer identifying artist and actor. Born in Australia, he received his undergraduate degree in Fine Art from The Queensland College of Art which was completed on scholarship at The Exeter College of Art in 2003. In 2005 he took a Masters in Acting at East 15 Acting School. His CV includes two solo shows and work as technical staff at The Queensland College of Art. Mackenzie’s quirky, sometimes satirical and often allegorical work started as an exploration of his own narrative being raised in the Australian suburbs. However, after he relocated to the UK his practice, which traverses drawing, painting, text and photography, pivoted more towards exploring urban dystopia and wasteland of sorts through fabricated, even mistranslated landscapes and doll-like figures. The familiar yet unsettling is the space in which most of his work resides... This includes disparate pieces from allegorical paintings and doll drawings to more immediate landscape studies. He splits his time and practice between Australia and the UK.

Artists of influence have always been idiosyncratic contemporary painters of the Asia Pacific, key figures in Australian landscape painting as well as El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, Stanley Spencer, Otto Dix, Mo...

TRAINING:1993 Certificates of Visual Art and Design, TAFE, Brisbane, Australia; 1996 BA Leisure Management - Arts Planning and Management, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; 1999 Certificate in Fine Art - The Arts Academy, Brisbane, Australia; 2003
B Visual Arts in Fine Art - Painting Major, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia :- completed on scholarship at The Exeter School of Art and Design (Uni. of Plymouth), Exeter, England; 2005 MA Acting - East 15 Acting School, London, England.

EXHIBITIONS: 2023 Sussex Contemporary Open, 2019 V&A Friday Late, 2014 V&A Takeback (group), Swan Wharf, Hackney Wick, London; 2013 Blow*Up*Dolls [stage 2] (solo) Project Space, Mother Studios, London; 2002 Exhibition of paintings from the body of work Some Kind of Wonderful, The Wesley Hospital Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia; 2002 Graduate Exhibition - The Queensland College of Art, Australia; 2003 Some Kind of Wonderful (solo) The Magazine Space, Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane, Australia; 2004 Tony, Tony, Tony: a wilful mis-translation (solo) Project Gallery, The Queensland College of Art, Australia.