Jane McKay's paintings are 'flights of imaginative energy which bring the landscape, the creative mind and the viewer into a dynamic synthesis'.
(Jan Altmann).

The land is portrayed both as place and as life essence. McKays' paintings are responses to the natural environment which reveal existential themes. The expressive marks of McKay's paintings are decorated with tiny, indispensable details of the natural world.

The paintings exhibit our emotional response and connection to the land and capture elements of textural nuance and emotive verve. The pigment appears in layers as though the colour is woven into a dense surface plane of abstraction.  Skilfully executed in style, structure, and perspective the paintings convey a sense of the transcendent, they strive for meaning beyond the boundaries of logic and explore the sublime.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008  Temporal Worlds, Elements Art Gallery, Perth, Australia
         Like A Moth to a Flame, Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia
         Abstract Lands, The Hyatt, Australia Japan Conference, Perth, Australia
         Land and Water, Art Forum JARFO Gallery, Kyoto, Japan   
2007  Elan, Thierry B Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
         Journeys, Elements Art Gallery, Perth, Australia
2006 Timeless Solitude, Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia
        Tempo, Tristan's The Gallery, Perth, Australia
        Volante, Monart, Dalkeith, Perth, Australia
2005  Outback, Gig Gallery, Sydney, Australia
         Distant Horizon, Manyung Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
         Landscape Abstraction, Momentous Arts, Singapore
        Desolate, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Australia
        Avalon, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA
        Land, Code Red Art, Perth, Australia
2004  Night and Day, Kings Art Gallery Cafe, Perth, Australia
2003  West Australian Landscape, City of Subiaco, Perth, Australia
2002  Arial, Kings Art Gallery Cafe, Perth, Australia
2001  Jane McKay, New Works, Bentley Pines Gallery, Perth, Australia.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2008 Minnawarra Art Award, Armadale, Western Australia
        Elements Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia
2007 Art and About, Contemporary Australian Art, Momentous Arts, Singapore
        Hong Kong Art Walk, Gaffer Studio, Hong Kong
        Cossack Art Award, Cossack, Western Australia
        Minnawarra Art Award, Armadale, Western Australia
2006 McKay, Milunovic and Giles, Elements Art Gallery, Subiaco, Western Australia
        Cossack Art Award, Invited Artist, Western Australia
        Art Sydney 06, Thierry B Gallery, Soho Galleries, Sydney
2005 John Glover Art Prize, Evandale Tasmania, (short-listed entry)
        Sydney and Melbourne Affordable Art Shows, Australia
        Mandurah Inaugural Art Award, Mandurah, Western Australia
        Vast Land, Momentous Arts, Singapore
2004 Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, Adelaide, South Australia, (short-listed entry)
        Richard Martin Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
        Out from Down Under and Beyond, Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
        Vast, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Vast, Moores Building, Fremantle, WA (with David Giles, Dragica Milunovic, Deborah Savage)
        Margaret River Galleries, Selected Works.
        Cossack Art Award, Town of Vincent Art Award, Canning and Katanning Art Awards
        Left, Mundaring Arts Centre, Vivarts Group, Mundaring, W.A.
        Away from Home, Vivarts Group, Travelling Exhibition, Narrogin, Albany, Kalgoorlie,  Geraldton, Mandurah, Fremantle and    Esperance, in conjunction with Art on the Move
       Selected works, Linton and Shaw Gallery, Code Red Art, Hawthorn Gallery, Perth
2002  Basoda Gallery, Subiaco, selected works
       Vivarts @ 274, Vivarts Group, 274 Gallery, Northbridge, Perth
       Code Red Art, selected works, Claremont
2001 Jane McKay, Branko Pravika, Michael Kimba, Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle
       Seeing Eleven, Vivarts Group Moores Building, Fremantle
2000 Ho Ho Ho, AFWA Christmas Show, Moores Building, Fremantle
       Albany Art Award, Albany
1999 New Collectables Gallery, Fremantle, Group Exhibition, Dec/Jan.
1998 Boxibition, Curtin University Exhibition, Bentley
       Atwell Portrait Prize, Atwell Gallery, Melville
1997 Field of Dreams, S.H. Ervin National Trust Gallery, Sydney
       Love Letters to John MacDonald, 151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney
1996 Selected Works, The Seahorse Gallery, Sydney
1995 The Axis Gallery, Sydney, selected works
1994 'Selected Works', Ceramics, Gallery Six, Sydney


GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008 Highly Commended, Minnewarra Art Award, Armadale, Western Australia
2008 Country Arts WA, project grant for Sandstone Public Artworks and Artist Residency
2008 Artflight Grant from ArtsWA for solo exhibition in Kyoto, Japan
2007 Australia Japan Foundation Grant, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Commonwealth of Australia
2005 Community & Cultural Development Grant, Jolimont Primary School, Centenary Art Projects
2005 Artflight Grant from ArtsWA for solo exhibition at BGH Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2004  Highly Commended, Victoria Park Art Award, Perth
2003  Artflight Grant from ArtsWA for group exhibition at Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC.
2002 Rosalie Primary School, Community and Cultural Development Grant from the City of Subiaco,   
2000  Art on the Move Grant, Vivarts Touring Exhibition, 'Away From Home', throughout W.A.


COMMISSIONS AND ART PROJECTS

2008 Judging of the City of South Perth, Emerging Artist, Art Award
       110th Anniversary Exhibition of Perth Zoo, curating, City of South Perth
        Curating of Christobel Bennett and Peter Kendall exhibiitons, City of South Perth
        Sandstone Community Art Projects, Sandstone, WA
        Artist in Residence, Sandstone Primary School, June 2008
        Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award for Young Artists, City of Subiaco
        City of Stirling, art activities for 1200 children for RSLS Australian championships
2007 Judging of the City of South Perth Art Award
        Curating of the Japanese Pottery Exhibition, City of South Perth
        City of Bayswater, youth workshop, career development - Art and Design
        Abstract Beginnings, curating, Claremont School of Art, student exhibition
        City of Stirling, art activities for 1200 children for RSLS Australian championships
        Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award for Young Artists
        City of South Perth, curating, 'The Art of Illustration', works on paper by Shaun Tan
2006 City of Belmont, Curating of The Japanese Embroidery Exhibition
        Curating of The Japanese Embroidery Exhibition, Heritage House Cultural Centre, South Perth
        Curating and Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award
        City of Subiaco, Children's holiday art programs
        Elements Art Gallery, Subiaco - commissions for clients
2005 Jolimont Primary School, three Centenary Art Projects, Artist in Residence
        Curating and Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award
        City of Subiaco, Children's holiday art programs
        Elements Art Gallery, Subiaco - commissions for clients
2004  Art from Recycled Materials, seven workshops for the City of Subiaco
        City of Cambridge, design of banner for Council Week
        Curating and Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award
        City of Subiaco, Children's holiday art programs
2003  Short-listed for MetroRail Railway percent for Art Project, Perth, Australia
        Curating and judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award
        Artist in Residence, August / September, Churchlands Senior High School
        Co-ordination of City of Subiaco, Library - Mural Project painted by Shaun Tan, Perth
        City of Subiaco, Children's holiday art programs
2002 Rosalie Primary School, 'Under the Sea', mosaic project with year 5 students   
       Co-ordination of City of Subiaco, Children's Library - Mural Project painted by children's   
           illustrator Shaun Tan, Perth
        Judge for the All Saints Literature Festival for the Primary Art category
        City of Subiaco, Children's holiday art programs
2001 City of Subiaco Library, commission for 'Transitions', mosaic, 300 x 100cm, Perth
        City of Subiaco, Children's holiday art programs
1997 Double Portrait   oil painting, Private Collector   Sydney
1996 Portrait   pencil drawing, Private Collector   Sydney
        Pastel Drawing, Private Collector   Sydney

 

COLLECTIONS
                                    

Austrade (Australian Trade Commission) Singapore, Art Forum JARFO Japan, ANZ Private Bank,
District Court of Western Australia, City of Subiaco,  Match Property Development Group, Perth Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Powell Management Services,  Chambers of Sir Francis Burt, Wilson & Atkinson Barristers and Solicitors, City of Armadale,   Real Asset Services, Moora Fine Art Society, Seaforth Print Collection, Australian Money Planners,  Maple Interiors, Law School - Macquarie University, (limited copyright, drawings for book covers) and private collectors in Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Canada, USA, Japan and Singapore.


EDUCATION
2001 Bachelor of Arts (Art) Curtin University WA
1997 Diploma in Fine Art - first year, Seaforth College of TAFE
1996 Certificate in Fine Arts, Seaforth College of TAFE
1985 Tasmanian Teaching Certificate
1984 Bachelor of Education, University of Tasmania

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