Edward Mackenzie
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    • 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
  • 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
"Edward Mackenzie is an artist who has specialised in the reworking of found objects. Most of his shows have centered around the transformation of everyday manufactured objects into art, with one kind of material giving unity to each exhibition.

The material he chooses to re-work in his Oracle Exhibition consists of oars and rowlocks, though there is supplementary help from old shears, gun stocks....

Out of these materials he makes objects that are always remarkable and sometimes astonishing.

The oars are cut into small sections that reveal the hollow construction. They are cut on an angle so that the hollow in the center takes on a heart shape or, in the case of Choristers, an open mouth....show(ing) the inventive capacity to transform that is typical of Edward Mackenzie...." 
                                                                 
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T.J. McNamara, NZ Herald, May 1991

Of Thee We Sing
Oarafish
Prow & Stern of
Two Waka
in Stormy Waters
Hearts of Darkness
The Coming of Steam Propulsion to the Kennebeck River
The Coming of Steam Propulsion to the Kennebeck River (detail)
Choristers
Esturial Totems in Transit
Oarafice Oarafi
Heart of the Waka
Totem Wall
Manx Parquet
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