Glen Mackie
GLEN MACKIE | 'WARU-KAZI' | Vinyl-cut relief print
GLEN MACKIE | 'WARU-KAZI' | Vinyl-cut relief print
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Waru Kazi
"This print is about the baby turtle waru mean turtle and Kaz mean small or baby and growing up on the island we would have Waru Kaz for pet the kids in the city would have dog or cat for pets but we would have baby turtle we would grow them up till they become too big for our dish then we would let them go at the edge of the reef sometimes we will cry because we would give them names and let them go but we'll would find new baby turtle and it would go over again so this was based on when I was a kid and my pet was Waru Kaz."
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. 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 | 'WARU-KAZI' | 2025 | Vinyl-cut relief print | 20 (h) x 20 (w) cm | Edition of 20
