Edward Mackenzie
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    • Assorted Art 1
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    • English Seaside
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  • Home
  • Narrative
    • Solo Exhibitions
    • 2 and 3 Person Exhibitions
    • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • Art Related Commissions & Employment
    • Art Education
    • Awards
  • Series
    • Assorted Art 1
    • Assorted Art 2
    • English Seaside
    • Ice Cream Packaging
    • Make Art Not War
    • Mansard Roof Tiles
    • Marine Art
    • Oaracle
    • PianoWorks
    • Pyrotechnical
  • Bibliography
    • Selected Review Extracts
    • Reviews
    • Television
    • Art Book Inclusions
"Another show came as a big surprise. It was one of those exhibitions of quality that comes unheralded....out of the blue an exhibition about the English seaside by Edward Mackenzie.

The materials of this show must have taken years to collect. They were made into a series of assemblages inspired by the work of the great English photographer, the late Tony Ray-Jones. What Edward Mackenzie made was a whole lot of boxes, most of them containing a pier constructed out of things as diverse as ice-cream sticks and pieces of meccano (erector) sets.

Around each pier were remarkable designs made up of clippings of evocative old postcards, other photographic materials and a mass of posters, tins, boxes, bottles, toys, cards and mementos all harking back to the Twenties and Thirties. All the famous brand names were there from Frys Cocoa to Players cigarettes. Out of those nostalgic fragments landscapes were made so that each assemblage was its own small world, redolent of time past but each with its own atmosphere. It was unprecedented and unparalleled - a first class exhibition."

  T.J. McNamara, NZ Art News, April 1984
Road to Portobello
Master Mariner
Gaff Riggers
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Deja Vu
Flossful Moment
Pied Piper
Greta's Domain
Bow Front Bunting
Made in England
Jubilee Pier
Seaside Stripes No. 1
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