Carol McGregor

Carol McGregor is an Indigenous Australian artist of Wathaurung (Victoria) and Scottish descent, internationally known for her multi media installation pieces bringing together ephemeral natural fibres, metal, and paper. She is also deeply engaged in the creation of and cultural reconnection to possum skin cloaks, a traditional form of dress and important biographical cultural item.

Early life and education Carol McGregor was born in Hastings, New Zealand. In 2013, McGregor earned a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours, from QCA. Between 2014 and 2017, she studied for a Doctor of Philosophy degree at QCA with an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship.

Career Carol McGregor aims through her practice to explore alternative forms of cultural expression and to adjust new technologies that would help her further examine the diversity of ancestry, experiences and intimate histories concealed within the landscape.

For her doctoral project, McGregor examined the material culture of possum skin cloaks in South East Queensland (SEQ). Thanks to her research work and the workshop she facilitated, the contemporary making of possum skin cloak was revitalised in SEQ communities.

McGregor collaborated with Glennys Briggs on the Art of the Skins (cloak making project and exhibition) presented at the State Library of Queensland in June – Nov 2016.

McGregor's work in cast silver, Cornerstone (2011–18), was featured by the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, as part of the Boundary Lines group exhibition in November 2018 – February 2019.

McGregor's latest work Skin Country (2018) was featured by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, as part of The Commute exhibition in September – December 2018.

Work

Solo exhibitions 2014 IDALIA imprints – The Webb Gallery, Qld College of Art (response to artist residency with The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences) 2015 Idalia HAAS Library, University of Qld, Brisbane 2018 Carol McGregor: Repositories of Recognition, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia

Major exhibitions 2009 Postcard Art & Advertising (CAIA, QCA) Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns 2010 On Paper, Impress Printmakers and Qld College of Art Print Club, Brisbane 2010 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns 2010 Our Stories, Our Way, Mater Hospital, Brisbane 2010 Art from the Soul, Kurilpa Gallery, Brisbane 2011 Knots, Contemporary Artisans Collective Gallery, Brisbane 2012 First, Emerging Indigenous Art, Love Love Studio, Brisbane 2013 Artoriginal, Brisbane Town Hall 2013 Middle Ground, Fine Art Honours students, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane 2013 Field, Contemporary Landscapes, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane 2014 The Gather Award, St. Ita's, Brisbane 2018, So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2018, Boundary Lines, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane 2018 The Commute, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Selected award exhibitions 2013 The churchie national emerging art prize, Griffith University Art Gallery (GUAG), Brisbane Redland Art Gallery, Queensland