The Escarpment KV V is selected for the national works on paper prize 2020 at the Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria

This work on paper was inspired by a visit to Kangaroo Valley in NSW. The towering escarpment is one of seven enclosed escarpments in the world. It is as if the gods have made their own dry stone wall. The light hits one side in the morning and the other side in the evening. Towering, majestic and breathtakingly beautiful.

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The Escarpment KV V
2018
acylic on hand made Indian rag paper, framed
60 x 80 cm

Online Exhibition presented by ReDot Fine Art Gallery

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“REDOT FINE ART GALLERY is honoured to present a very special online exhibition for the very talented Alice Springs based artist, Marina Strocchi. Draw the line is a collection of recent works by one of the galleries most important non-Indigenous artists. Strocchi studied art in Melbourne (1979-82) and spent time in the milieu of the ROAR studios in the early 1980s. She then had a two-year sojourn in Europe (mainly Paris), before returning to Melbourne to commence her social practice as an artist. She found herself in central Australia in January 1992. It was there that she began her first series of landscape paintings and returned to live at Haasts Bluff in August of that year. During the 1990s she worked closely with many of the Aboriginal artists who made central Australian desert art so well known in Australia and all over the world. Since 2015, her work has grown in ambition while subjects initially becoming more domestic and internally focused and she is now one of Australia’s brightest talents.”

— ReDot Fine Art Gallery


Exhibition is running from the 7th January - 2nd March 2020

View online exhibition catalogue here

Michael Reid Gallery, 2010

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“Marina Strocchi is ultimately a storyteller, well crafted in her ability to take the viewer on a visual journey depicting a place in time or a memory of landscape.

“Raised in an Italian Australian family, living in the Northern Territory, and inspired by ancient cultures, Marinas work is a compelling and dynamic fusion of cultural diversity and influences.

“Marina began her art practice as a printmaker with a strong focus on the simplicity and strength of the line. From this beginning she evolved into a painter, incorporating texture and a desert palette.

“Deeply inspired by the Australian landscape and with an interest in art from indigenous cultures, a very distinct style emerged, for which she is renowned. Her works are both playfully whimsical and vigorous, evoking a rich breadth of experience with this country and its inhabitants.

“In contrast to the energy her line brings to the canvas, her use of colour and subject matter seduces the viewer to experience something of another sphere.

“Marina’s continuing love of the landscape and the impact of the surrounding artists in the area in which she lives, have been instrumental in Marina established the Ikuntji Art Centre at Haasts Bluff in 1992. Over the years she has enjoyed nurturing talent among students and budding artists in the central desert region of Australia.”

— Michael Reid Gallery