Tracy Mackenna

Tracy (SCO-IT) is an artist and educator, Professor Emerita, and an alumna of The Glasgow School of Art and The Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She exhibits internationally and has had solo exhibitions at e.g. Barbican Centre, London; CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Arnolfini, Bristol. She is Curator of THE MUSEUM OF LOSS AND RENEWAL with (Dr) Edwin Janssen, an art project that offers space and contexts for making and sharing. Rather than being a museum in the traditional sense, The Museum of Loss and Renewal stimulates people to take time in which to generate thoughts, feelings and ideas. The Museum of Loss and Renewal is a growing collection of experiences that are regularly shared through the activities of its curators, partners and residents. In her practice Tracy employs writing as a dialogical process and activates playful, provocative and non-linear properties of language within visual art practice, to give new and refreshed voice to collaborators and subject-matters. Extensive periods have been spent living and working in Hungary, Romania, France and the Netherlands making art, and establishing art networks and artist-led organisations. She is a founding-Director of Glasgow Sculpture Studios and an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture. (Prof Emerita; RSA) Tracy holds the Personal Chair of Contemporary Art Practice at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Educational practice has been focused through the Masters programme MFA Art, Society & Publics which she devised and lead. www.themuseumoflossandrenewal.life UK, Italy, Netherlands