About Christopher Mackay
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After getting my bachelor of arts (Psychology, English, & Physics), I took a year of Fine Arts.
I learned a lot from Thaddeus Holownia, Tom Henderson, Dan Steeves, Rebecca Burke, Virgil Hammock, John Asimakos, and David Silverberg at Mount Allison University.
That foundation year provided an introduction to drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, art history, and theory. It was a year where making art was my job. The best learning happened — as it so often does— around the edges of the curriculum: the wry, winking, comments from Henderson; the understanding of the power of images from Holownia; context from Burke and Hammock.
I learned a lot from Thaddeus Holownia, Tom Henderson, Dan Steeves, Rebecca Burke, Virgil Hammock, John Asimakos, and David Silverberg at Mount Allison University.
That foundation year provided an introduction to drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, art history, and theory. It was a year where making art was my job. The best learning happened — as it so often does— around the edges of the curriculum: the wry, winking, comments from Henderson; the understanding of the power of images from Holownia; context from Burke and Hammock.
I’ve always loved to draw (but I forgot)
Working as a digital content producer and graphic designer scratched my creative itch just enough; making art seemed less important. Despite being early to digital imaging — from HyperCard, an Apple QuickTake 100 (640 × 480 px photos!), and Photoshop (before it had layers) — my artwork resisted making the leap from paper to pixels.