Kathy Mackey (AU)
![Image: Kathy Mackey,
[Reliquary 1], 2006,
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2006-WINNER-MACKEY-Kathy-200x133.jpg)
Image: Kathy Mackey, Reliquary 1, 2006, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist
Image: Kathy Mackey, Reliquary 1, 2006, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist
Kathy Mackey is a Brisbane-based artist working with photography and installation art. She completed a Diploma of Education at Queensland University of Technology in 1981, a Bachelor of Education at QUT in 1989 and a Master of Arts Education at Griffith University in 1998. In 2011 Mackey completed a Doctor of Philosophy: Visual Arts Practice at Griffith University. Since then, Mackey has developed and exhibited several bodies of work that explore photography as a performative act. She has also worked as a visual arts teacher and is currently the Manager of the Queensland Academies Brand Division. In 2015, Mackey completed a three month Fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
![Image: Jacky Redgate, [Light throw (mirrors) #4], 2011 from the series [Light throw (mirrors)], 2010–11, Monash
Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Redgate-Light-Throw-Mirrors4-2010_2011-1-200x160.jpg)