Marian Drew
Strata
Marian’s new series
opens at
THIS IS NO FANTASY Gallery
108-110 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne
from
Thursday 5th – Saturday 21st March
Opening Times: Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 12 – 5pm
I am working with a new process, a kind of sculptural collage. Tearing up large photographs and rephotographing within table landscapes. These works link to my previous work with still life and landscape. There are eight works in the new series. This work is titled ‘Women Who Moil for Gold’.
For me, the genres of still life and landscape are entwined. Through compressing model forms of landscape into the humanized space of the still life, I posit a relationship between microcosmic and macrocosmic scales. The sculptural capacity of a photograph reveals its performative nature as both image and object. In this Euclidean space (ordinary two- or three dimensional space), tables become landscapes and surreal interventions.
Ripping and rephotographing large prints ties these works to previous iterations of my practice, always concerned with the overlaps and indistinctions of traditional genres. I consider this process a kind of sculptural collage. The tearing of the photograph, both physically and from its quadrilateral origins and implied narratives, reinforces its material nature. It becomes a contemporary artifact, at once an echo and antithesis of screen-based images.
With a firm nod to Cezanne’s interiorization of landscape and the compressions of geometry in Cubism and Surrealism, I am interested in conceptual and spatial suggestions that relate specifically to the 21st century.
An internationally recognized artist, Marian has held over forty solo shows and numerous group shows in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Germany, France, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Peru.
Her work is held in collections that include the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Murdoch University, and University of Queensland.
She represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial 1993, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China 2010 and the Photography Biennale, Photoquai, Paris 2011.
Recent exhibitions include Wall Power: Contemporary Australian Photography, showing in Cologne, Berlin, London and Paris, 2017/2018, Still Life Casula Powerhouse, 2017 and Dubai Photo, 2016, curated by Alasdair Foster.
For more on the exhibition Strata visit: https://thegodlesstraveller.com/strata/
For more information on Marion visit: http://www.mariandrew.com.au
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