Dr. Janet McKenzie - Keynote Speaker at Crossing The Line Conference, 2014

Dr. Janet McKenzie will present the keynote address:

Drawing on Two Worlds: The Osgood Suite

Dr. Janet McKenzie
Author, Artist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Dundee

Janet McKenzie was born in eastern Victoria, Australia and was educated at he Australian National University (History of Art/ Philosophy) and the Canberra School of Art (etching). She travelled to the UK in 1979-80 and carried out independent research at King’s College, Cambridge. Returning to Australia she taught at the Canberra School of Art, the Victorian College of the Arts and the City Art Institute, Sydney (now College of Fine Art, UNSW) and published: Drawing in Australia, Contemporary Images and Ideas (1986), and Noel Counihan (1986). In 1986 she married architect Michael Spens and moved to Scotland the following year where she settled permanently. Whilst raising a family, her studio practice was primarily painting. She continued writing and publishing and completed her Doctorate at the University of St. Andrews on The Art of Arthur Boyd, under the supervision of Professor Martin Kemp, published by Thames and Hudson (2000). She has co-edited Studio International with Michael Spens since 2000. She wrote Contemporary Australian Drawing #1, published by Macmillan Art Publishing in 2012. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, and has embarked on Drawing on Two Worlds, a practice-led research project using collaborative drawing to explore issues of identity and dispossession in Scotland and Australia. She delivered the paper ‘Drawing as Discovery’ as the keynote speaker for ‘Drawing Out’, the 2012 drawing conference at The Centre for Drawing, The University of the Arts, London.

Janet McKenzie

Sanctuary 1984 Edition of 30

Drypoint 

14 x 17 cm 

link: Drawing on Two Worlds at Langford 120