Creative Conversations Kirsty Mackay
Photographic artist in conversation
Monday 20 January, 2025 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Kirsty Mackay is an photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker.
Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport.
Her current book project The Fish That Never Swam, considers class and discrimination against working-class people. Combining first-person narratives with photographs, it takes Glasgow as a case study, looking at the root causes of the city’s poor health outcomes and lower life expectancy.
Examining the relationship between the environment, government policy, historical trauma, and public health. It shifts the emphasis from individual life style choices to the effects that political policies have on our bodies. It will be published as a book in 2021.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in the Facing Britain group show, an observation of British Documentary Photography since the 60’s alongside works by Martin Parr, Anna Fox & David Hurn, Museum Goch, Germany.
In The Magic Money Tree, Kirsty Mackay gives people a platform to articulate the reality of poverty and the consequences of 14 years of social welfare decline. Mackay’s unflinching empathy is abundantly apparent, but it is a quality that shines through her portfolio, in photography that surprises, challenges and goes far beyond simple documentary.
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