Margaret Kennedy Mackenzie (Priest)
Other names: Margaret Priest
Born 1922
Active: 1939 - 2012
Sculptor, painter
Mackenzie was born in Scotland and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1939. Her contemporaries included Ingeborg Neufeld who taught her to carve in wood. In 1946 Mackenzie married a New Zealander by the name of Priest, who was temporarily posted in Glasgow during the war, and emigrated with him in 1951 to Perth, Western Australia. Her work is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), and further examples (mostly painting, which she took up in later life) can be see at: http://www.holmesacourtgallery.com.au/exhibitions/current.cfm?exhibition_id=112. There is a monograph on her work by Philippa O'Brian 'Margaret Priest: an Artist's Life', Fremantle Press, Fremantle, WA, 2009
Information from Jane Eckett, 'Modernist Sculpture in Australia: Group of Four, Centre Five and the Europeans', doctoral thesis, University of Melbourne, begun 2009.
Works
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Head of a woman
1943 (Circa)
Locations
Address Tavannach Burnside Avenue Barrhead, Glasgow | View on map
1943 (Circa) - 1947 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1943 - 1945
Exhibited 4 times (one work per show)
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1947
Exhibited once, one work shown
Personal and Professional Connections
Friends with Kathleen Evelyn Crosbie McNeil
MacKenzie was introduced to McNeil by Ingeborg Neufeld. MacKenzie was taught to carve wood by Neufeld in McNeil's garden at Barnaigh House
Friends with Ingeborg (Inge) Neufeld
1939 (Circa)
Whilst studying sculpture at Glasgow School of Art. Neufeld taught Mackenzie how to carve in wood
Sources
Modernist Sculpture in Australia: Group of Four, Centre Five and the Europeans
Chapter 2
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 20
Citing this record
'Margaret Kennedy Mackenzie (Priest)', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1220374500, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
