Debbie Mackinnon An Artist Profile
Artist Bio
Solo and Joint Shows
• Incinerator Art Space, ‘Unfolding’ Dec 2022
• Art Gallery on Darling, ‘Look’ solo show Sydney Feb 2022
• Incinerator Art Space, ‘Making My Mark’ Jan 2021
• Art Gallery on Darling, Sydney ‘Exhale’ solo show July 2020
• ME Gallery, Sydney ‘A Song of Travel’ joint show Nov 2019
• ARO Gallery, Sydney Two Artists ‘Near & Far’ joint show with Mike Staniford July 2019
• ME Gallery ‘Two Artists One Journey’ joint show with Mike Staniford March 2018
• Sydney Road Gallery, Seaforth, Sydney ‘Ocean Stories’ August 2017
• ME Gallery ‘Land Sea Sky’ joint show with Fiona Verity March 2017
• Duck Rabbit, Redfern, ‘Land Sea Sky’, April 2017
• ME Gallery, St Leonards, Sydney, ‘Tidelines’ March 2016
• Moochinside Gallery, Hardys Bay, ‘Wharf’ July 2015
• ME Gallery, St Leonards, Sydney, ‘Coast’ September 2014
• Incinerator Artspace, Willoughby, ‘Fields of Dreams’ March 2013
• Moochinside Gallery, Hardys Bay, ‘Element’ October 2012
• Incinerator Artspace, Willoughby, ‘Drawn to Travel & the Spaces In Between’ May 2011
• Moochinside Gallery Hardy’s Bay ‘Crossing the Boundaries’ Easter 2010
• Salmon Galleries, McMahons Point, Sydney ‘Crossing the Boundaries’ Oct 2009
• Salmon Galleries, McMahons Point, Sydney ‘Time and Tide’ June 2008
Selected Group Shows and Juried Art Prizes
- Gosford Art Prize selected finalist 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022
- Art in the Open 2nd prize Winner Sept 2022
- Hawkesbury Art Prize finalist 2021
- Manly Regional Gallery Artist Book Prize finalist 2021
- Northern Beaches Art Prize 2020 – WINNER
- NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize Finalist August 2018
- Art Gallery on Palm Beach – member of artist run gallery, group shows 2020
- The Eye That Sees – curator and exhibitor, drawing show Me Gallery for Art Month 2019
- Wish You Were Here – group show of postcard art; creator, curator and exhibitor ME Gallery March 2018. Major fundraiser for Fred Hollows Foundation
- Art In The Open WINNER February 2018
- The Red Project selected artist North Sydney Council March 2018
- Rochfort Gallery, North Sydney-Land & Sea selected for launch exhibition Feb 2018
- Sydney Road Gallery, Seaforth selected member of art collective in multiple group shows 2017/18/19/20/22
- Chippendale World Art Residency Prize selected finalist August 2017
- ANL Maritime Art Prize selected finalist Oct 2017
- Northern Beaches Art Prize selected finalist, August 2017
- Land Group show, selected artist Manly Regional Gallery 2017
- Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize shortlisted finalist 2016, hung in SA Museum
- Mosman Art Prize selected finalist 2013/2016
- The Other Art Fair Sydney 2016
- A Social Landscape group show Depot Gallery, 2 Danks St Waterloo Aug 2016
- Fleurieu Food+Wine art prize selected finalist 2016
- Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize selected finalist 2015
- Saltwater group show, selected artist Manly Regional Art Gallery 2015
- Moran Portrait Prize selected Semi Finalist 2014
- Moran Portrait Prize selected Finalist 2011
- Lethbridge10000 Australia’s biggest small-scale art prize, finalist 2013/14/15/16/17
- Hunters Hill Art Prize selected finalist 2007/09/10/11/12/13/14/15/17
- North Sydney Art Prize selected finalist 2007. 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
Art Education
• Art Foundation Course – Colchester College of Art
• BA Design & Illustration – Middlesex University, London
Art Residencies
- Upcoming: Cill Rialaig, County Kerry Ireland September 2023
- Police Point, Mornington Peninsula Vic September 2022
- Kelton Plain, Monaro, NSW February 2022
- Joya AiR, Andalusia Spain, October 2017