Glen Mackie
GLEN MACKIE | 'Sea horse' | 2024 | Acrylic painting
GLEN MACKIE | 'Sea horse' | 2024 | Acrylic painting
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"For me want I look at the seahorse specially the male seahorse it reminds me of the single father because it the male who would look after the baby's.
I painting this paint about my cousin brother "Bala" he is a single father a very rough man. But he is a very loving father he kids come first before him and because when you look at the seahorse it's very rough in the out side but very loving in inside and that how I look at my Bala so this painting is about my seahorse Bala very good person with a big heart and to his kids"
Glen Mackie (Kei Kalak)
Kulkalgal people.
Born 1975, Kala Lagaw Ya Country, Iama/Yam Island, Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait Islands.
Lives and works Gimuy Walaburra Yidinji/Yirrangangi Country, Gimuy/Cairns, Queensland.
Glen 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 for the benefit of young people of the Islands and the general public.
The bold minar, or infill-design style in Glen Mackie (Kei Kalak)’s work incorporates family totemic designs and his own invented geometric repeating water pattern. He retells the myths and legendary stories he inherited from older family members. As one of Yam Island’s few practising artists he feels he has a responsibility to keep alive the sacred stories of the four brothers who travelled from the north before memory and settled Zenadh Kes, more commonly known as the Central and eastern Torres Strait Island.
GLEN MACKIE | 'Sea horse' | 2024 | Acrylic painting | 100 (h) x 32 (w) cm
