Kye McGuire b. 1980

  • Artist ,
  • Maker (Jewellery Designer),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer)
Kye McGuire is the recipient of the inaugural Lin Onus Award in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She works in multi-media, works on paper, digital media and jewellery making.
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Kye McGuire was born in Western Australia in 1980 and has lived in Perth, Broome and Melbourne. She was the recipient of the inaugural Lin Onus Award in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She works in multi-media, digital media and jewellery making.

She holds an Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Curtin University in Perth, and in 2003 was included in the group exhibition, “Showcase of New Works” at the university.
In 2005 she was a participant in Screen Australia’s “Indigenous New Media Lab” (Brisbane), a two-week immersive workshop and exhibition aimed at developing the digital and interactive media skills of its participants. Others visual artists who participated included Tony Albert, Jenny Fraser and Diane Jones.
In July of 2007, McGuire exhibited her hand-crafted jewellery in the exhibition, “Shiny Shiny Blak Bling. Flash jewellery by Blak Artists” at Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne alongside Donna Brown, Gail Harradine, Sandy Hodge, Sonja Hodge, Kim Kruger and their teacher, Peter Eccles.
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Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
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