About
Maz Dixon is an award-winning artist based at Bondi Beach. Maz’s paintings are a colourful but uncanny riff on vintage souvenir materials – postcards, tourists booklets, bric-a-brac – anything you can print a Big Pineapple on. There is a tension present in her paintings, a combination of nostalgia for summer holidays in Queensland in the 70s and 80s, seasoned with an awareness of the impact of tourist culture on the landscape and inhabitants of a place.
Maz won the Waverley Art Prize in 2017, is a two-time finalist in the Sulman Prize and has also featured as a finalist in the Mosman, Sunshine Coast and and Fisher’s Ghost art prizes. She has undertaken residencies with Waverley Council, Tweed Regional Gallery, La Macina di San Cresci in Chianti, and the American Academy in Rome.
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STUDIES
2005 Master of Studio Art, SCA
1998 – 2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, COFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Great Escapes, Penny Contemporary
2021
Getaway, Penny Contemporary
2020
Two Sicilies, Bondi Pavilion Gallery
Sweeties, Michael Reid Online
2018
The Life Exotic, Fox Galleries
2017
El Dorado, Gaffa Creative Precinct
2016
Wonders of the Past, Gallerysmith Project Space
Invictus, Palette Dining, presented by Louise Abbott at iArt
2011
Dawn and Dusk, galleryeight
2010
Terra Nova, Mary Place Gallery
2009
Awfully Pretty, galleryeight
2008
Borderlands, Don’t Look Gallery
2005
Fantasy Island, Boundary
2004
Scenic, inaugural exhibition of the Newtown Precinct Art Space Project, @ Newtown
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Gather, Sketch Co Gallery
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
The Butterfly Effect, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
2021
Oprah Has an Arts Degree, Black Cat Gallery
Paint, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
Waverley Art Prize, online show
2020
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2019
Scavengers, Alternating Current ArtSpace, Windsor
Liquorice Allsorts: A Mixed Bag of Practice, Bondi Pavilion
2018
Blank Spaces for the Imagination, Bondi Pavilion (Curated by Elizabeth Reidy and Todd Fuller)
New Dawn, Fox Galleries
Contempo, KAB Gallery
2017
Persona, Scratch Art Space (Curated by Rachael Helmore)
Waverley Art Prize, Waverley-Woollahra Art School
Echoes, Tortuga Studios
Bluethumb Art Prize, No Vacancy Gallery
2015
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
Waverley Art Prize, Waverley-Woollahra Art School
Face-to-Face, Gaffa Creative Precinct (Curated by Celine Roberts)
Waverley Artist Studios Group Show, as a part of Art Month Sydney, Waverley Library
2014
The Lab, an Art Pharmacy pop-up event as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2013
Stimulate/Sedate, aMBUSH Gallery (an Art Pharmacy pop-up event)
Passing Through, Wellington Street Projects (Curated by Katherine Brickman)
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
2012
Pop Tarts Present: Something naughty or nice?, Michael Reid Gallery (online show)
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Contemporary Art Award), Campbelltown Arts Centre
Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life, Brenda May Gallery (Curated by Megan Fizell)
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Gallery
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
2011
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
Marrickville X, ESP Gallery
Women on Boards Art Prize, Tap Gallery
Fabrication, galleryeight
Unfolding, ATVP
Affinity, galleryeight
Küt, Alaska
40x40x40cm Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery
2010
Electric Encounters, Plump Gallery, Sydney Fringe
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2009
Liverpool City Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse
2008
Still Life, Brenda May Gallery
Pigments of Imagination, Mary Place Gallery
Arcadiarama, ATVP
2007
Rundgang, UdK, Berlin
SCA Postgraduate Show, SCA
Echelon, Peloton
Deck, MOP Gallery
PRIZES, RESIDENCIES & SCHOLARSHIPS
2022
Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
2021
Finalist, Waverley Art Prize
2020
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Finalist, Bluethumb Art Prize
Artist in Residence, The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Tweed Regional Gallery
2018
Finalist, Waverley Art Prize
2017
Winner, Waverley Art Prize (Open Prize)
2015
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
Finalist, Waverley Art Prize
2014
Finalist, Sir John Sulman Prize
2013
La Macina di San Cresci Residency, Greve in Chianti
2012
Finalist, Sir John Sulman Prize
Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Contemporary Section)
2010
Waverley Council Artist-in-Residence Program
2007
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship
COLLECTIONS
Waverley Council
PRESS
Virtual Reality – Andrew Harper, TasWeekend Magazine, Hobart Mercury, Feb 13-14, 2021, p. 49
October Salon – Trouble Magazine http://www.troublemag.com/salon-october-2018/
For the Diary: New Dawn – Art Collector Magazine, issue 83, Jan-March 2018, pp. 202-203
Attraction – Yen Magazine, issue 76, May 2015, pp. 48 – 51
Attraction: The Work of Australian Artist Maz Dixon/Sunday Morning Art – Design Joy – 6 April 2014http://designjoyblog.com/2014/04/06/attraction-the-work-of-australian-artist-maz-dixon-sunday-morning-art/
Real Art for a Fictitious World: There’s something about Mary – SF Girl by Bay – 6 March 2014http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/2014/03/06/real-art-for-a-fictitious-world-8/
The Artistic Time 5: Yearbook of Artists in Residence 2013 – La Macina di San Cresci – 2014http://www.chianticom.com/en/libri-e-oggetti-othermenu-87/307-the-artistic-time-n5
Maz Dixon – FRRRESH Visual Arts Magazine Eleventh Issue pp 131 – 151 – February 2014http://www.frrresh.org/eleventh-issue/
Art Roundup: Summer Time – Style by Emily Henderson – 23 April 2013http://stylebyemilyhenderson.com/blog/art-roundup-summer-time/
Maz Dixon Manipulated Retro Postcards – Frankie Magazine Blog – 7 April 2013http://www.frankie.com.au/blogs/art/maz-dixon-manipulated-retro-postcards
I’m Jealous of Maz Dixon – The Jealous Curator – 18 March 2013http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2013/03/18/im-jealous-of-maz-dixon