Andrew Mackenzie

ANDREW MACKENZIE
BUSINESS: P.O. BOX 559, MOUNT ELIZA, VICTORIA 3930

Arts / Heritage Consultant, Historian and Author.
Project Manager, Lecturer, Curator, Publisher and Librarian.
Judge of many significant Art Shows, and generous supporter of the Arts.

A leading authority on the Artists of the Heidelberg School and the concept creator of the Heidelberg School Artists Trail.

Awarded in 1994, an Australia Day Jagajaga Community Award for outstanding service to Australian Art and the Community.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

1992 Completed M.A. Department of Visual Arts, Monash University

1986 Completed Masters Prelim. in Art History, La Trobe University

1977 Completed Graduate Diploma of Librarianship, R.M.I.T.

1975-1976 Completed B.A. La Trobe University

1972-1974 Completed the first two years B.Sc (Biological Science) La Trobe University

POSITIONS HELD ON SOCIETIES

40th Anniversary Celebrations Committee,
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) – 1995-1996

Chairperson, Banyule City Council Culture and Heritage Advisory Committee – 1996

President, Plenty Yarra Community Tourism Association – 1995-1996

Councillor, Australian Guild of Realist Artists – 1993

Chair, National Executive ARLIS/ANZ
(Arts Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand) –1992-1995

Councillor, Wildlife Art Society of Australasia – 1992

Senior Vice-President, Watercolour Society of Victoria – 1991

President, Pastel Society of Victoria – 1991-1993

PROFESSIONAL WORK BACKGROUND

1997- PRESENT Self-employed. Full-time professional Arts/ Heritage Consultant, Lecturer and Project Manager

1976-1996 Employed by La Trobe University as a Librarian in the areas of computer support, cataloguing, orders, acquisitions and reference. Promoted to University Librarian, Level 2.

1975-1976 Employed by National Mutual Insurance Company as a Trainee Computer Programmer.

1974-1975 Employed by ANZ Banking Corporation as a Computer Operator and Clerk.

MAJOR PROJECTS COMPLETED SINCE SELF-EMPLOYED

MARCH 6th-9th 2000 Curator/Manager of Photographic Display ‘GREETINGS FROM THE COAST’ held at the Melbourne Convention Centre as part of the Australian National Coastal Conference: Coast to Coast 2000 -‘Beyond the Beach’

APRIL 1999 Completion of the extension to the Heidelberg School Artists Trail, with the erection of a further thirty-nine signs. The trail now has a total of fifty-one signs and includes the areas of Eaglemont, Heidelberg, East Ivanhoe, Templestowe, Eltham, Diamond Creek, Research, Warrandyte, Silvan, Kallista, Olinda, Ferntree Gully and Mount Dandenong. Acted as Arts/Heritage Consultant on this project for Parks Victoria, Banyule City Council, Manningham City Council, the Shire of Nillumbik, and the Shire of Yarra Ranges.

JUNE 15th-JULY 12th 1998 Curator/Manager of Art & Photographic Display: ‘IMAGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS OF VICTORIA’ held at Melbourne Central as part of the ‘PARKS ON PARADE’ project for Parks Victoria, in celebration of the Centenary of the National Parks of Victoria.

NOVEMBER 1997 Curator/Manager of display ‘IMAGES OF THE VICTORIAN COAST’ for the 1997 Conference “CARING FOR THE COAST’ for the Victorian Coastal Council.

APRIL 1997 Project Manager for completion of first stage of the Heidelberg School Artists Trail, for Parks Victoria, Banyule City Council and Manningham City Council.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1990 Frederick McCubbin 1855-1917 : ‘The Proff' and his art
Published by Mannagum Press/Sotheby’s Australia.

1989 Walter Withers 1854-1914 (Famous Australian Art Series)
Published by Mallard Press.

Holesch 1910-1983 : Horse Paintings
Published by Austrascope, South Yarra, Victoria.

1988 Hans Heysen 1877 -1968 (Famous Australian Art Series)
Published by OZ Publishing Co., Queensland and reprinted by Mallard Press in 1989.

Albert Namatjira 1902-1959 (Famous Australian Art Series)
Published by OZ Publishing Co., Queensland and reprinted by Mallard Press in 1989.

1987 The Etchings, Lecture Notes and Writings of Victor Cobb, 1876-1945.
Published by Pioneer Design Studio.

Walter Withers: The Forgotten Manuscripts
Published by Mannagum Press

MANNAGUM PRESS

In July 1986, I established Mannagum Press, my own small publishing company. I was interested in publishing original manuscripts relating to Australian artists, as well as old letters, diaries, documents, historical photographs and reproductions of Australian artworks – many from private collections.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

ART CATALOGUES

Since 1987, I have provided Sotheby’s and Christie’s Australia with entries on a number of major Australian art works for their Australian Art Catalogues. I have also provided information and entries for Kozminsky Galleries, Leonard Joel and Lauraine Diggins Fine Art. In 1998, I wrote the Special Catalogue for Christie’s Australia for the Frederick McCubbin work ‘Bush Idyll’, 1893. This work sold at auction for an Australian record.

1998 Christie’s Australia. Sydney, 17th August 1998
Frederick McCubbin : ‘Bush Idyll’ 1893

1997 The Heidelberg School Artists Trail
Published by Banyule City Council

1994 Catalogue of one of Australia’s most significant Private Art Collections, with full biographical details on 41 artists and full catalogue and provenance details of 60 art works. This 300 page Catalogue was researched, written, and published by Andrew Mackenzie, March 1994.

1993 Important Australian Women Artists edited by Lara Smith
Published by The Melbourne Fine Art Gallery. Wrote eight of the entries for this catalogue.

1992 Old Friends – a private viewing. (Streeton, Roberts, McCubbin, Withers).
Curated this important exhibition of memorabilia items and art works, and also produced an art catalogue of this exhibition. This was organized as part of the 25th Birthday Celebrations of the City of Doncaster and Templestowe. 2 September – 27 September. Doncaster Gallery. A video recording was also made of this exhibition.

1990 The Box Hill Artists’ Camp
A Catalogue commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Box Hill – Doncaster Regional Library.

1989 Denes de Holesch 1910-1983 : Horses Painted From Memory
A Catalogue with biography on the artist. This Catalogue was translated into Hungarian and used for a major exhibition on this artists work, which was held in New York.

1987 Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and other Fairy Folk of the Australian Bush
Written with Robert Holden, and Published by James Hardie. This Catalogue was written to accompany the exhibition that was curated by Robert Holden and Andrew Mackenzie in the Herbarium in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and also in Canberra. Organized as a free exhibition for children throughout Victoria and the ACT, over a ten-week period, more than one hundred thousand children visited the exhibition.

1985 A Tribute to Victor Cobb 1876-1945 : A Retrospective Catalogue
Published by La Trobe University.

ENTRIES FOR THE AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY

VOLUME 12, 1990, pp. 551-553
Walter Herbert Withers 1854 –1914

VOLUME 11, 1988, pp.467-468
John Thomas Nightingale Rowell 1894-1973
William Nicholas Rowell 1898-1946

PROFESSIONAL LECTURES

Since 1987, I have delivered well over a hundred lectures on Australian Art to groups at National and Regional Galleries throughout Australia, as well as to University and School students, Art and Historical Societies, and various service groups within the community. I believe in making Art and Art History more accessible to the public, and with this in mind, I have provided many voluntary lectures (often with the use of original art works) to the elderly and frail in retirement villages.

I have also provided lectures in front of the signs that make up the Heidelberg School Artists Trail, and I have ensured that the signs have been placed so that they are easily accessible to the elderly and the disabled in the community.

My lectures in Schools are aimed at making our School children more aware of their rich Arts/Heritage, and hopefully stimulating their interest and encouraging them on to further studies. Recently, I have provided lectures on Arts/Tourism, and on a variety of Australian Art topics for the Council of Adult Education.

ARTICLES ABOUT MY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Since 1985, well over one hundred articles have appeared in Local and National newspapers as well as leading journals, including The Bulletin and Business Review Weekly.

PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWS

RADIO

Since 1985, I have been interviewed on ABC Regional and National networks, as well as local radio, Inner FM and Plenty Valley FM.

TELEVISION

Have appeared on Channel 10 News, Channel 9 Today Show and on Channel 7 Today-Tonight on Tom Roberts, 11th February 1997, and Channel 7 Today-Tonight on the Heidelberg School Artists Trail, 13th June 1997.

Left: Arthur Streeton - Above Us The Great Grave Sky, 1890
Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.