ABOUT
Malcolm McKinnon is an Australian artist, filmmaker, curator and ghost-wrangler working mainly in the realms of social history and digital media. He has an abiding interest in the surprising labyrinths of living memory and the peculiar beauty of local vernacular. Over the past twenty years his work has encompassed documentary filmmaking, oral history, urban planning, public and community art projects, critical writing and exhibitions. (Sometimes he also makes paintings and drawings.) Much of his work is produced with and for rural and regional communities.
Current Projects
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TALKING SIDEWAYS - stories & conversations from Finniss Springs
A book of instructive stories from Finniss Springs, once the site of an Aboriginal mission in the far-north of South Australia. Written and developed in collaboration with Reg Dodd. To be published by University of Queensland Press, March 2019 |
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WE PROTEST!
A history of public protest in the streets of Melbourne An exhibition for City Gallery at Melbourne Town Hall, 10 May - 11 August 2018. See: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arts-and-culture/city-gallery/exhibition-archive/Pages/we-protest.aspx |
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POSSESSION
Exploring the repatriation of a colonial collection of Aboriginal artefacts to their traditional owners. A project for the Burke Museum in Beechworth, Victoria, in collaboration with Bernard Lloyd. |
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UNANCHORED WORLD
A short film about peripatetic artist Stephen Eastaugh, focussed around an oceanic residency on an international cargo ship. |
curriculum vitae
| malcolm_mckinnon_cv-2018.pdf |