Tracy Mackenna Orkney, United Kingdom
I am an artist, curator, educator and publisher.
In my art practice I employ drawing, video, walking and writing as dialogical processes to activate playful, provocative and non-linear properties of language within visual art practice, giving new and refreshed voice to collaborators and subject-matters.
I am the Curator of THE MUSEUM OF LOSS AND RENEWAL. It is an art project that offers space and contexts for making and sharing, nurtured by me and my Associates. Individual and Group Residency Programmes take place in Italy and in Scotland's Orkney Islands.
THE MUSEUM OF LOSS AND RENEWAL Publishing devises and designs publications, and is open to proposals.
Upcoming events
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Group Residency Programme, Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: MICRO-MACRO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Workshop | 20/06/2026 to 27/06/2026
Welcome to all creative practitioners and researchers interested in making, thinking and being in experimental ways. This Group Residency will take you out and about in Orkney, introduce you to the impact of climate crisis, to vast skies and the archipelago that has long been shaped by the sea.
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Group Residency Programme, Orkney - Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS
The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Workshop | 27/06/2026 to 04/07/2026
The Group Residency is offered for creative practitioners working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of the Group Residency themes in relation to space, sound and visuals. The group will comprise of approx. eight international participants.
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Group Residency Programme Italy Place, People and Time: WRITING with PLACE
The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Workshop | 01/10/2026 to 08/10/2026
The aim of the Group Residency is to develop ‘writing’ and approaches to ‘writing’ that are experimental, inventive in their form, and that respond to place, in a specific environment. Bringing together residents from a range of areas of practice and research, the potential to create an international network is made possible.
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Group Residency Programme Italy - Place, People and Time: ART and FOOD
The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Workshop | 09/10/2026 to 16/10/2026
The Group Residency is devised around the relationships of ‘place, people and time’ and residents will be welcomed to Collemacchia, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. The aim of the Group Residency is to develop approaches to the relationships between art and food that are experimental and inventive in their form, in a specific environment.
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Individual Residency Programme, Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Workshop | 01/05/2026 to 31/10/2026
An Individual Residency provides uninterrupted periods of time in the beautiful environment of Collemacchia in Italy’s Molise region. APPLY NOW for 2026 / Residency periods are available between 01 May and 31 October each year. The minimum residency period is 2 weeks, however for the full benefit of all that the residency programme provides, a minimum period of 3 weeks is recommended.