EXHIBITIONS + CURATORIAL PROJECTS - sample works

WE PROTEST! 
 
An exhibition critiquing the history of public protest in the streets of Melbourne, developed for City Gallery at Melbourne Town Hall, 2018

Ripples of Wartime

A physical and on-line exhibition presenting first-voice stories from people impacted by the Vietnam War in a range of different ways. Commissioned by Brink Productions theatre company as a component of its Long Tan project, the work also features as part of the exhibition After the War at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra from October 2018. 

For more stories from this collection see: http://www.brinkproductions.com/productions/ripples-of-wartime
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© Malcolm McKinnon & Brink Productions, 2017​

Transportation & Transformation

A social and pictorial history of Port Pirie and the Port Pirie Smelters, produced for Nyrstar Metals and Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, developed in collaboration with Andrew Male, 2017.

This is a Border(town)

Artist-in-residence project in  Bordertown, South Australia, producing works for physical and on-line exhibition. Commissioned by Country Arts SA, 2016.

See: https://thedirtsa.com.au/project/this-is-a-border-town/

One River 

Multi-site and on-line exhibitions and a related series of symposia sharing stories of connection and interdependence across the Murray Darling Basin. Commissioned by Centenary of Canberra, 2012 – 2013.​

See: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/136770/20131030-1001/oneriver.com.au/index.html

Illuminated by Fire

Short films, symposia and online exhibition presenting diverse stories of living with and understanding the role of fire in a range of Victorian locales. Commissioned by Regional Arts Victoria, 2010 – 2011.

For more films from this collection see: https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/land-and-ecology/illuminated-by-fire/
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© Malcolm McKinnon & Regional Arts Victoria, 2010

Memory Bank

Physical and on-line exhibitions and installations presenting personal stories of specific locales, commissioned by City of Greater Geelong, 2008.

See Memory section in: www.geelongaustralia.com.au/connectingidentities/index2.html
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© Malcolm McKinnon & City of Greater Geelong, 2008

Walk, Talk & Chalk

An exhibition at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, concerned with the surprisingly emotive history and culture of parking enforcement.

 See: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arts-and-culture/city-gallery/exhibition-archive/pages/walk,-talk-and-chalk.aspx

© Malcolm McKinnon & City of Melbourne, 2007

Nukunu - stories of heritage and identity

A permanent multi-media exhibition at Melrose Museum, South Australia, developed in collaboration with Melrose Historical Society and the Nukunu People’s Council, 2003-2006.
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© Nukunu People’s Council, 2005

Football Stories from Country Victoria

Broadcast, DVD and on-line exhibition presenting stories about the culture of country football.
Commissioned by the Victorian Country Football League and the State Library of Victoria, 2006. (Winner of 2008 Victorian Community History Award: Audio-Visual Multimedia)
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See: www.pictures.libraries.vic.gov.au/countryfootball/

Tractor Stories and Harvesting Stories

Permanent screen-based exhibitions produced for Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum at Warracknabeal, Victoria, 2005-2007.

Talking Silos

Exhibition and large-scale projection event at Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery and Port Pirie grain silos, South Australia, 2004.

Marree Arabunna stories

Screen-based exhibition at Marree Arabunna Museum, commissioned by Northern Regional Development Board and Marree Arabunna People’s Committee, 2004​

It was a town when I was living there

A series of in-situ display panels interpreting the social history of Farina, now a ghost-town in outback South Australia. Commissioned by the South Australian Outback Areas Trust, 2004

Melrose – stories of a town and a brewery

A permanent multi-media exhibition at Melrose Museum, South Australia, commissioned by Melrose Historical Society, 2003.

Triggered Stories

Exhibition at Horsham Regional Art Gallery, featuring videos developed in collaboration with community museums in the Victorian Wimmera, and related artefacts from museum collections, 2003.

Memory Grid 

A multi-media exhibition and video archive curated for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2003.

Working Together 

Stories of Aboriginal involvement in the Overland Telegraph and the Old Ghan Railway – an exhibition at Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute and then touring to other venues, created in collaboration with Reg Dodd, 2001.​

Essential Truths, Readily to Hand

An exhibition commissioned for the Adelaide Festival, presented at the Adelaide Festival Centre and at three other venues in regional South Australia, curated in collaboration with Reg Lynch, 2000.