Curriculum Vitae - Caroline McKay
EDUCATION:
East Sydney Technical College
Art Certificate 1981
Art Higher Certificate 1982
Southern Cross University
Bachelor of Arts (Vis Arts) 2001
PRIZES:
2025 Bentley Art Prize - Open/Contemporary Acquisition Prize - 2nd Prize
2018 Ocean Shores Art Expo - Highly Commended
2016 Byron Art Classic - Gallery Representation award
2012 Caldera Art Awards - Third Prize
2012 Ocean Shores Art Expo - second prize mixed media.
2012 Ocean Shores Art Expo - overall winner Krista Bernard award
2009 Byron Bay Brewery Arts Award – First Prize
2002 Art in January, Brunswick Heads – Highly commended, Drawing
2001 Southern Cross Art Festival, Ballina – First Prize Drawing category
1999 Byron Bay Easter Art Classic – First Prize Mixed Media category
1998 Byron Bay Easter Art Classic – First Prize Print category
1995 Glen Innes Annual Show – First Prize oil painting category
1994 Southern Cross Art Festival, Ballina – Highly Commended Open section
1994 Brisbane Royal Show – Second Prize – Drawing
1992 Glen Innes Annual Show – Champion artwork of show
1992 Glen Innes Annual Show – First Prize Pastel category
1989 Berinba Arts Festival, Canberra – Second Prize
1989 Berinba Arts Festival, Canberra – Second Prize
1984 Glen Innes Annual Show – Third Prize Print category
1984 Glen Innes Annual Show – First Prize Print category
1984 Glen Innes Annual Show – First Prize Print category
1984 Glen Innes Annual Show - Champion Artwork of Show
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital, Brisbane with Michael Cheshire
2015 A Change in the Weather, Northern Rivers Community Gallery Ballina
2015 Mullumbimby Library
2007 Henry’s Café, Lismore
2005 Here not There, Armisteads Gallery, Lismore
EXHIBITION PARTICIPATION:
2009 - 2025 Art There Collective, Bangalow Market Pop Up Gallery
2025 BACCI MayExhibition Masonic Hall Ballina
2024 BACCI October Exhibition Masonic Hall Ballina
2024 Art for Art's Sake - Federal NSW
2024 Grace Cruise Exhibition -Northern Rivers Community Gallery Ballina
2023 Ballina Art Market - Northern Rivers Community Gallery Ballina
2023 Art for Art's Sake - Federal Hall
2023 Home - Lennox Art Collective Gallery, Lennox Head
2023 Intimacy - PAN group Show - Roxy Gallery Kyogle
2022 Murwillumbah Art Trail
2021 Garden of Eternal Delights - Lennox Art Collective Gallery
2021 Murwillumbah Art Trail
2021 Out of the Blue - Federal Hall
2020 Ballina Byron and Beyond - Open Studios
2019 Sunrise Arts Annual Show, Lennox Head
2019 Ballina Byron and Beyond - Open Studios
2019 Art For Art's Sake - Federal
2018 Sunrise Arts Annual Show, Lennox Head
2018 Mother Nature, Roxy Gallery, Kyogle
2018 Ballina Byron and Beyond - Open Studios
2019 Art For Art's Sake - Federal
2018 Things I saw today, Northern Rivers Community Gallery
2017 30 x 30 exhibition – Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby
2016 Natural Connection - Lennox Art Collective Gallery, Lennox Head
2014 Border Art Prize exhibition Tweed Regional Gallery
2013 Community printmakers prize exhibition - Tweed Regional Gallery
2013 Border Art Prize exhibition - Tweed Regional Gallery
2013 Art on the Move - Northern Rivers Community Gallery , Ballina
2012 Border Art Prize exhibition - Tweed Regional Gallery
2012 Caldera Exhibition, Beaudesert
2012 Murwillumbah Art Festival
2012 Henry’s Café - Lismore - Art There Collective group show
2010 Artfelt Exhibition – Northern Rivers Community Gallery - Ballina
2010 Rivers of Life group show - Northern Rivers Community Gallery -Ballina
2009 PAN Northern Rivers annual show
2009 Luvacoffee, Lismore
2009 FEHVA, Bangalow – group show
2008 PAN Northern Rivers annual show
2008 FEHVA Christmas Show, Bangalow
2006 Neurybah Gallery, Newrybar
2004 Avalon 8 Gallery, Byron Bay
2001 BareBones Gallery, Bangalow
2001 Artistcare Student Drawing Prize Exhibition, QLD College of Art Gallery, Griffith University
2000 Southern Cross University BA Graduation Show
1982 East Sydney Technical College Graduation Show
1981-1984 Warwick Stocks Gallery, Randwick NSW
1981-1988 Strokes Gallery, Oxford St, Paddington NSW
MEMBERSHIPS:
NAVA
Art There Collective
Practicing Artists Network (PAN)