Bio

Dale Mackey is a maximalist bricoleur whose work explores femininity, performativity, and narcissism through various mediums including installation, textiles, and her satirical lifestyle brand, "doom". She co-owns and curates The Central Collective, a mixed- use creative space in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Statement

Created in April 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic, The Love Trailer began when Dale Mackey decided to turn her husband's old hauling trailer into a miniature sanctuary. Using mostly hoarded craft supplies and party remnants, she created a living room-to-bedroom camper inspired by love-themed motel rooms from the 1970’s and 80’s. At the height of COVID 19 anxiety, when everything from strange surfaces to our dearest friends felt like a threat, Mackey found comfort in creating a “trailer of one’s own” as a place to celebrate softness, sensuality, and spectacle in a necessarily antiseptic moment in time.