Elizabeth MacKenzie

Elizabeth MacKenzie has lived and worked in a number of Canadian cities, including Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton and currently resides in Vancouver, the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

She uses drawing to explore the productive aspects of uncertainty through repetition, interrogations of portraiture and considerations of intersubjective experience. MacKenzie’s drawing installations have been shown across Canada, including exhibitions at the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery (Halifax), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina) and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She participated in the group show, YYZ World Tour, at the Embassy Cultural House in 1986. She maintains an ongoing commitment to collaborative and community-engaged art practices, critical writing and teaching.

For more information visit her website and blog.

Work by Elizabeth MacKenzie

Installation view, west wall, Unlikeness, 2020, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Digital prints on existing walls, ceiling height: 12’. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

Detail, east wall, Unlikeness, 2020, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,D BC. Digital prints on existing walls, ceiling height: 12’. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Detail of installation, Eight, 2010, SLOW: Relation + Practice, group residency/exhibition, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Ink on rice paper, on existing wall, each image approximately 12 x 9”. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Elizabeth MacKenzie.

Installation view, Identification of a Woman, 1986, 1087 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario. Graphite on existing walls, ceiling height: 12'. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Peter MacCallum.

OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

EDITORIAL TEAM

CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITOR
Tariq Hassan Gordon

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Matthew Dawkins, Tariq Hassan Gordon, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, &  Jade Williamson

VIRTUAL TOURS
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Matthew Dawkins,  Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, &  Michelle Wilson,

PAST CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Charlotte Egan,, Mackenzie Smith, &  Jade Williamson

This project is supported by the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program:

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.