MACKAY, Colin

A painter and cartoonist in Dunedin by 1881; listed as Dunedin artist 1881–84 in Mills Dick Almanack and Stone's Directory. He and H. Kirkwood and L. W. Wilson painted a panorama of the destruction of the Pink and White Terraces which was exhibited throughout New Zealand. Left Dunedin about 1888 and went to Melbourne, where he drew for a Salvation Army newspaper. Listed as Dunedin artist 1883–84 Wise's. Exhibited: OAS 1882–87. A painting of a fire in Timaru in 1881 is in the Nan Kivell Collection, Australian National Library, Canberra.