Mary McGillivray is an Australian TikToker and Video Essayist making visual culture analysis accessible for the next generation.
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ABC Aussie Art History
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UK Art Fund
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National Gallery London x Doctor Martens
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Four Seasons Milan
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Chatsworth House
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ZKM Center for Art and Media
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Four Seasons Florence
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Australian Institute of Art History
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National Still Life Award - Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
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National Gallery Victoria
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State Library Victoria
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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
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TikTok Australia
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ABC The Art Of...
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mary mcgillivray’s grand tour
youtube series
Co-funded by the European Travel Commission, “Mary McGillivray’s Grand Tour” takes you on a journey back in time to the origins of tourism in Europe: the 18th century coming-of-age travel tradition for posh British boys known as the Grand Tour. On this trek through history we visit some of the most popular tourist destinations in the world: Paris, Venice, Rome, and many more, but we find that the gents of the Grand Tour era were often less than impressed by what they found…
Aussie Art History
Collaboration with ABC
Isn’t it funny that Australians all know Michelangelo, Picasso, and Monet - but most of us don’t know anything about our own home-grown artists? It’s time to brush up on your Aussie Art History with this TikTok and Instagram Reels series highlighting the fascinating stories of Australian artists.
Museum of the Year 2022
Collaboration with UK Art Fund
Every year, five museums are shortlisted for the UK Art Fund Museum of the year award - the most prestigious prize in the Museum calendar! In this collab, Mary takes you on a road trip (or, Great British Railway Journey in this case) to visit all five finalists to find out why they’re in the running to be Museum of the Year 2022.
Series available on TikTok and Instagram.
Why study art history?
Collaboration with the Art History Institute of Australia
This three part series asks the dreaded question: What’s the point in studying art history? A collaboration with the Art History Institute of Australia, these videos tackle some commonly held beliefs about art history degrees - that they’re useless, irrelevant and lead to unemployment - and explains why art history matters, and why we need it, especially in Australia today.
Watch all three parts below.
Still Sundays
National Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery
This collaboration with Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery is a ten episode TikTok series highlighting some of the finalists of the National Still Life Award exhibition. Released every Sunday over the ten week exhibition period, the most successful episode reached over one million views.
Still life is an often overlooked genre of art. Still Sundays aims to bring the amazing work of contemporary Australian artists working in this genre to the TikTok audience to encourage curiosity and inspire viewers to reassess their assumptions about what a still life can be.
Watch a selection of the episodes below, or see the whole series on TikTok.