![RIPAIRIAN ZONE [2025]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Picture-1-2-760x400.jpg)
Ripairian Zone installation featuring wallpaper by Gemma Ben-Ary, soundscape by Michael Terren, and various works by Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary. Photo Rebecca Mansell. Ripairian was an interdisciplinary site-specific work presented as an immersive exhibition (and livestreamed performance) in conversation with a site at Mandoon …
![RIPAIRIAN [2024]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Iso-Dawn_GB_VM_LOWres-760x400.jpg)
Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary, 2024, Iso Dawn. Photograph by Christophe Canato. During a 9-week residency at Midland Junction Arts Centre, Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary developed a series of new performance art experiments and fibre-woven artworks in conversation with a site near Mandoon Bilya/Helena …
McKenzie, V. (2022). Temporary assembly amidst change, UPENDING | MENDING: Catalogue of the Twenty-eighth Faculty of Arts & Design Staff Art Exhibition, National Library of Australia. Fires, floods and bugs sweep the country and creatives are exhorted to recover, to build resilience, to resume our …
![Zoongnosis [2022]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/two-zoons-crop-KM-pic-760x400.jpg)
Like the neologism that splices the Greek roots for animal, knowledge, and disease of animal origins, ‘Zoongnosis’ splices donated audio with discarded gloves and parrot wings. This COVID-safe participatory artwork invited people to send me audio recordings that reflected their ‘COVID mood’, persistent and lingering …
![Upending | Mending [2022]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/hero-image-crop-760x400.png)
Curated by Vahri McKenzie, UK Frederick and Katie Hayne, the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts and Design annual exhibition presents diverse creative responses to the inspiration, and provocation, of the theme Upending | Mending. Our artists, designers and creative educators brought together a variety …