MELANIE MCKEE
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Melanie McKee is a Perth-based artist and academic and co-founder of Print Lab Australia. Melanie participated in an international study exchange program at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris and was involved with the Perth Centre for Photography from 2012-18. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, notably in group exhibitions at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou China, Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery Perth, La Central in Santander Spain, Collie Art Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Tuner Galleries in Perth. Melanie has been awarded several grants to undertake and present her research and creative practice. 
 
Melanie was Born in Zimbabwe and has lived in Perth since 2001.


EDUCATION

2018               Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary Education), Edith Cowan University, Australia
2017               PhD, Curtin University, Australia 
2011                Bachelor of Arts (Art) (Honours) with First Class Honours Curtin University, Australia
2009                Bachelor of Arts (Art) Curtin University, Australia
2008-09          École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (International study exchange program)
 
AWARDS AND HONOURS

2015    Artflight Travel Grant, Department of Culture and the Arts, Government of Western Australia
2012    Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (APA)
             Curtin Research Scholarship (CRS)
2007    The Curtin University Department of Art Culture Award
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2017    Marston: Remembering Home Through Creative Practice, PhD Examination Exhibition, Turner Galleries, Perth WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Seven Forms (Collie '22), Collie, Australia
TRANSMEDIAL, Sydney Contemporary, Australia

2019
Convergence II, Paper Mountain, Perth WA
Cossack Art Awards, Karratha, Australia

2018
Convergence, La Central, Santander, Spain
Six Printmakers and a Wordsmith, artist book collaboration with the Curtin Print Research Studio, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain

2017    
On the Map, Mundaring Arts Centre, Perth WA
Higher Degrees, John Curtin Gallery, Perth WA
Locale, Heathcote Museum and Gallery, Perth WA
A Space Between, Paper Mountain, Perth WA
Collective: the small print edition, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth WA

2016   
TERMINUS in search of an (im)possible conclusion, Paper Mountain, Perth WA

2015   
GMT+8, Museum of Contemporary Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Homing: Luxury and Necessity, Sanshang-Art, Hnagzhou, China
Necessary Fictions, Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle WA 

2012   
Collective, The Perth Centre for Photography, Perth WA

2011   
Art Degree Show 2011, Curtin University Department of Design and Art, Perth WA

2010   
Collective, The Perth Centre for Photography, Perth WA

2009   
Curtin Degree Show 2009, Curtin University Department of Design and Art, Perth WA
Creative Tides: Art at Iona, Iona Presentation College, Perth WA
Red Aware Art Exhibition, FJ Clarke Lecture Theatre QEII, Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital, Perth WA
Midland Art Award, Midland Town Hall, City of Swan - The Dress artist book

2008   
Salade, Palais des Etudes, Paris France- 3 Untitled prints (Koons et Versailles)
Libris Awards The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay Queensland - Red Book: she dressed, not looking down

2007   
Iona Presentation College Centenary Exhibition, Perth WA - 3 Untitled prints
Collaborative Exhibition, Tangent Gallery, Perth WA
20x20 Exchange Exhibition, Tangent Gallery, Perth.  Held in collaboration with Curtin University Printmedia Department, RMIT, and the National Art School
 
CONFERENCES

2018    Semblance in the photographic ground. IMPACT10 International Printmaking Conference, Santander, Spain
2017    Photography and Place: Reimagining the Ground of Experience, The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Annual Conference, University 
             of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2015    GMT+8, Impact9 International Printmaking Conference, Museum of Contemporary Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
            Homing: Luxury and Necessity, Impact9 International Printmaking Conference, Sanshang-Art, Hnagzhou, China (Funded by the West Australian
            Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts)
2013    Printmaker as Explorer: Navigating a course through memories of Marston Farm, IMPACT8 International Printmaking Conference, University of Dundee,
            Dundee Scotland
            Wrought-iron bars and sewing thread: The (re)construction of a lost home via creative practice, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues, Inter-
            Disciplinary.net 4th Global Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford United Kingdom
2012    Stitching in Place: Migration, memory and habitual practices, ACUADS Conference, Central Institute of Technology, Perth Western Australia
            Stitching in Place: Migration, memory and habitual practices, The Truth is Out There: Curtin Humanities 13th Graduate Research Conference, Curtin
            University, Perth Western Australia
 
PUBLICATIONS

2017    Melanie McKee. 2017 “Marston: Remembering Home Through Creative Practice”. PhD Dissertation Curtin University.
             Dr Sheridan Coleman. Emplacement. Exhibition Catalogue Essay for Locale, Heathcote Museum and Gallery, Perth.
2016    Melanie McKee. 2016 "Wrought-iron bars and sewing thread: The (re)construction of a lost home
             via creative practice". In Dialectics of Space and Place across Virtual and Corporeal Topographies, edited by June Jordaan, Carl Haddrell and Christine
             Alegria, pp. 87-95. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-84888-510-3.
             Ann Schilo. TERMINUS in search of an (im)possible conclusion. Exhibition Catalogue Essay for        Terminus, Paper Mountain, Perth.
2015    Graham Mathwin. To be at home in time and place. Exhibition Catalogue Essay for Homing: Luxury and Necessity
2014    Melanie McKee. 2014. “Stitching in Place: Migration, memory and habitual practices.” In The Truth is Out There, ed. Julie Lunn and Stephanie Bizjak, pp.
​             111-125. Perth: Black Swan Press. ISBN: 978-0-9875670-5-5
2013    Melanie McKee. Wrought-iron bars and sewing thread: The (re)construction of a lost home via creative practice. Paper presented at Space and Place: The
             Space and Place Project: 4th Global
Meeting Oxford, UK for Inter-Disciplinary.net: A Global Network for Dynamic Research and Publishing.
​             https://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mckeesppaper.pdf.

​COLLECTIONS                              

Melanie's work is held in several private collections.
 
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS                        

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ).
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).
Perth Centre for Photography (PCP).
Print Council of Australia (PCA).



 

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