Marina speaks to us from her studio in Alice Springs, sharing the work she created during her residency in Brooklyn, NY, in 2019, and sending a message to friends and family afar while the globe is in lockdown. Works will be available from Jan Murphy Gallery late May, 2020.
Exhibitions
Online Exhibition presented by ReDot Fine Art Gallery
“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.”
Exhibition is running from the 7th January - 2nd March 2020
View online exhibition catalogue here
'Terra Firma' exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery
in Exhibitions
Terra Firma solo exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 2019
Exhibition at Michael Reid Gallery, 2011
in Exhibitions, Media
Show exhibited from 3rd June - 1st July, 2011
Michael Reid Gallery, 2010
in Exhibitions, Media
“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.”