ARTIST PROFILE

Artist Profile: Mary Buchanan Bailey

Mary Buchanan Bailey is a social commentary arts worker. Since the 1980s she has been exhibiting highly individualised art works and short stories on women, individuals and groups marginalised by society. 

Her ceramics and artworks have been shown in nine solo exhibitions, two touring exhibitions and in numerous group and joint shows. Her work is represented in private collections in Australia, Japan, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.

Mary frequently uses her contemporary social world as a metaphor for the complexities of human relationships in her visual and literary work. However some of her work is more immediate and autobiographical.

Her current work explores the changing demographics of the aged population, aged 75 plus, where during the past 50 years life expectancy has increased by 15%. And where the quantity of life is the preferred measurement rather than the quality of life.

So with all these extra years on our hands what are we doing with all this extra time? 

This exhibition explores some of this waiting game conundrum.

Mary Buchanan Bailey is still alive and kicking (the goalposts further out) and lives and works in Lauderdale Tasmania.

Solo exhibitions include

2015 Dying is an art

Schoolhouse gallery

2012 The Mad the Bad and the Different

Schoolhouse Gallery

2002 NO PETS or CHILDREN

Schoolhouse Gallery

1999 A long line of women with a flick fringe

Sadlers Court Gallery

1998 Whatever happened to Beatrix Maree

 Sadlers Court Gallery

1997 MRS P and the JELLY BEAN FACTORY

Schoolhouse Gallery

Touring exhibition with Tas Regional Arts

1995 AUNTS AT THE WEDDING

Schoolhouse Gallery

Touring exhibition with Tas Regional Arts

1988 ME an MRS P

Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre

Group and joint exhibitions include

2012 Rotary Club of Howrah Art Show

2000 Five Clarence Artists

2000 NOWSA Exhibition Melbourne

1997 Clarence Art Exhibition winner also (1985 - 97)

  

1989-93 Hobart Art Prize selected

1989-93 Sullivans Cove Spring, Winter and Christmas exhibitions

1988 Devonport Gallery ans Arts Centre

1987 Gallery Two Launceston

1987/88 Freemans Gallery

Publications include

1988 Mrs P and Me - Poetry

1995 Aunts at the wedding 

1997 Mrs P and the jelly bean factory 

1998 Whatever happened to Beatrix Maree 

1999 A long line of women with a flick fringe 

2002 The story of Chicken Little

2011 The Mad the Bad and the different

2011 My Mother Said cartoons

2012 Xmas Survival cartoons

2013 A christmas Scrapbook 

2014 the Twelve Days of Christmas cartoons