Biography

Christine Mackey is an artist and independent researcher who employ’s diverse disciplines, subject matter and tactics in devising works that can generate different kinds of knowledge of place, their hidden histories and ecological formations. Using diverse graphic sources and quasi-scientific methods, her work explores the interactive potential of art as a research tool and its capacity for social and environmental change.

In 2002, Mackey graduated with an MA Time based and Performance Studies at Dartington College of Art, England and in 1992 with a BA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland and was recently awarded a practice based PhD at the University of Ulster, Belfast 2012.