Naomi
McKenzie
Naomi McKenzie works primarily with medium and large format film photography. Her practice centres around both traditional and alternative darkroom and printmaking techniques, which she has refined over twenty years of dedicated exploration.
McKenzie's work reveals her masterful understanding of light, line and texture whilst highlighting her deep observational skills. Through continuous experimentation with traditional processes, she pushes the boundaries of analogue photography, creating works that ask the viewer to step deeper inside the her art. Winner of the 2023 Queensland Regional Art Awards Emerging artist, McKenzies work continues to strengthen and evolve.
Her photographs and prints are held in private collections both internationally and throughout Australia and she exhibits regularly in galleries and museums across the country. Working from her studio/darkroom in regional South East Queensland, McKenzie shares her expertise through workshops in schools and galleries, passionately fostering a new generation of analogue photographers.
Upcoming events
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VOLATILE TERRAIN HARVEST BIENNIAL 2025
15 February 2025 - 27 April 2025
BONITA ELY, CASSANDRA HODGINS, DYLAN SARRA, JIM FILMER, JUDY WATSON, KATE GECK, MARIAN DREW, MEGAN COPE & KEG DE SOUZA, NAOMI MCKENZIE, PRITA TINA YEGANEH, SANDI HOOK, SHIRLEY GREGOR.
CURATED BY CARA-ANN SIMPSON.
Human activity maps our world, alters topography, creates pathways, destroys habitat, builds infrastructure, mines the Earth’s crust, and moulds the landscape. Volatile Terrain is The Condensery’s inaugural Harvest Biennial exhibition, and explores the intersections and divergences of geography and geology, with consideration to a world in constant flux. The exhibition provides an opportunity to examine how humanity lives on Earth, as well as interacts, destructs & rehabilitates it.
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ARTIST TALK & MORNING TEA WITH NAOMI MCKENZIE
Saturday 29 March 2025 | 10:30 – 11:30am
Join us at The Condensery for an artist talk and morning tea with Naomi McKenzie!
Currently exhibiting work in The Condensery’s inaugural Harvest Biennial Volatile Terrain, Naomi McKenzie’s new work Elemental Reciprocity captures a Scar Tree on Dungibara Country. Rooted in the soils of Cressbrook Creek on the property of the Masters family, the tree symbolises the family’s sacred connections to Country, as well as their commitment to their multigenerational agricultural lands.
Joined by Vanessa Masters, come along to this artist talk to learn about the installation, which merges new film photographs and pictures from the Masters family’s personal archive.
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SHOOT FILM WITH NAOMI MCKENZIE
Thurs 10 April 2025 | 10:30 – 12:30pm
Do you have an old film camera at home that you’d like to test? Maybe you’re unsure whether you’d like to pick up film photography as a hobby, and would like to try it out.
In this workshop, come along and shoot film with Naomi McKenzie. In this session we will talk about the components of a film camera, and discuss how to take great pictures. Naomi will run through the foundations of photography, including how to balance ISO, aperture and shutter speed.
After the workshop Naomi McKenzie will develop the film and you’ll be sent an online link to view and download your shots.
Film & cameras will be supplied, however you’re encouraged to bring your own camera, if you have one.
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