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.
New Work
2020 Alice Prize
Marina talks about her entry into the 2020 Alice Prize, Blue Drawing II, exhibited at Araluen in Alice Springs.
This video was shot in April 2020 in Alice Springs.
Blue Drawing II
2018
Acrylic on linen
122 x 137 cm
L-R: Anna Kanaris, Bec Bowman and Marina Strocchi
Radio Interview with RTRFM
in Interviews, New Work, Media
Marina Strocchi and Anna Kanaris spoke with radio presenter, Bec Bowman, on RTRFM’s Artbeat to discuss two exhibitions, Coastal and Desert Women: Cultural Expression, presented at Early Works gallery in South Fremantle.
The gallery presented a solo exhibition of paintings by Marina Strocchi with reference to coastal themes, paired with new paintings from Ninuku in the APY lands and Warlukurlangu in the western desert. Opening on International Women’s Day both exhibitions are an interpretation of the artists’ environment, and a celebration of women artists working in the desert.
During the interview, “Marina gives us the details behind her artistic journey and interactions with Indigenous art. They discuss the importance of supporting galleries through art centres, as a means to recognise Aboriginal artists properly. As art is culturally important, it is essential to ask questions about sourcing, and to get younger people involved, knowing the facts of history in order to produce goodwill” - Women Painters of the Desert, Artbeat.
Listen to the full interview here: