Teena McCarthy
Teena McCarthy is an Artist, Professional Hairdresser and Film Make-up Artist, Actor, Performance Artist and Photographer. Predominantly a self taught painter, McCarthy has since studied at the Julian Ashton Art School, the National Art School and is currently a 2nd year student at the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales.
Inspired by her natural environment McCarthy observes each place she paints and attempts to tell its story. Feeling it is essential to experience and be part of each landscape she paints ‘plain- air’ (in the landscape) whenever possible. With the use of imagination, she tries to capture a time before colonisation, and the essence of country.
McCarthy presented her first two solo exhibitions at Reverse Garbage’s ‘MAD’ Gallery in 2007 & 2009, a sustainable art and design gallery in Enmore and Marrickville. McCarthy installation Err Sorry... Ur Place or mine was exhibited on the COFA campus. She was then invited to collaborate with award winning American artist Charlie Schneider in his AN EGG (American North Environmental Guerrilla Gallery) at COFA. These works were left outdoor to deteriorate and photograph. The photographs were then exhibited as part of Nexus Project Connected and Future Story, Live Futures 2020 a partner of Sydney Design 2010 Program. Work also featured in Australian Ceramic Journal and School of Art Institute of Chicago online gallery. In August 2010 she was invited by At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art Inc (‘ATVP'), Newtown, to display work in a group exhibition titled Marginal Democracy, asking contemporary artists to respond to the federal election.
The below artwork was featured in the Indigenous Law Bulletin March / April 2011 Volume 7 Issue 23.
