GLEN MACKIE | 'Gaynah' | 2024 | Acrylic painting First Nations Ink Type: Charbonnel

Ink Type: Charbonnel

Taken from an ongoing series of portraits (currently 320 and counting) which depict artists and friends Euan Macleod and Geoff Dixon’s daily communication on FaceTime

Paper type: Arches BFK white 300gsm

Undara Paintings represents an important exhibition in the artist’s career

The light wavelengths either cancel each other out or combine and the refracted light is seen as color

GLEN MACKIE | 'Gaynah' | 2024 | Acrylic painting First Nations Ink Type: CharbonnelGlen Mackie (Kei Kalak) is from Iama Yam Island, and his totems are the hammerhead shark and the crocodile. His bold minarr, or infill design style, incorporates family totemic designs as well as his own invented repeating patterns. He retells the myths and stories he inherited from older family members, and credits his artist grandfather for teaching him to carve. Mackie fiercely wants to preserve his culture by retelling the stories of his community