Linda Marrinon

LINDA MARRINON

Born 1959, Melbourne

Lives Melbourne

EDUCATION

Recipient, Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship

M.A. Fine Art (Sculpture) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Lecturer in painting and drawing, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Albury

B.A. Fine Art (Painting) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Pierre Fresnay and other sculptures, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Scene at Edfu and other sculptures, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Architects! Terracotta!, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Figure Sculpture, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Plaster Busts, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Recent Sculpture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon Foyer Gallery Solo Installation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Figure Sculpture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Figure Sculpture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Figure Sculpture II, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Figure Sculpture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Selected Works 1982 - 2000, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Linda Marrinon, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Cannibal Pierce Galerie Australienne, Paris

Linda Marrinon, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Linda Marrinon, Cannibal Pierce Galerie Australienne, Paris

Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Linda Marrinon, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Linda Marrinon, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Linda Marrinon, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Sculptural Body as part of Connecting the World through Sculpture, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

The National, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Philanthropists and Collections, UQ Art Museum, Queensland

Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney

The Mnemonic Mirror, curated by Kylie Banyard and Gary Carsley, UTS Gallery, Sydney

The Mnemonic Mirror, curated by Kylie Banyard and Gary Carsley, Griffith University Gallery, Brisbane

Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Voices of Art 3: For the Love of Animals, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney

Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennale, TarraWarra Museum of Art, curated by Charlotte Day

The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Highlights From the University of Melbourne Art Collection, The Ian Potter Museum of Art The University of Melbourne, Melbourne. (6 August to 16 October 2005)

Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston

MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition, Canberra

Home & Away: Place and identity in recent Australian art, Monash University Museum of Art touring exhibition; Customs House Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Brisbane (August to October 2003); Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Monash University, Victoria (November 2003 to January 2004)

The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

All Stars, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Persistence of Pop, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Funk de Siecle, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

New Additions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Bad Toys, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Transcultural Painting, Tatnsui Arts Centre, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Guangzhou, China, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne

Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

High Pop, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Nude, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales (and touring)

Association City, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Questions of Belief, South Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide

Art with Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Self Portraits, Cannibal Pierce Galerie Australienne, Paris

Irony, Humour & Dissent, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney

Annotations, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

No. 27 Linda Marrinon Sculptures, Store 5, Melbourne

Smorgon Collection, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition (touring Australia)

Propositions, Artspace, Sydney

The Cocktail Party, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Chaos, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Young Australians: The Budget Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Rebels & Precursors, University of Melbourne Gallery

Victorian Vision: 1834 Onwards, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Vox Pop: Into the Eighties, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Form—”Image--~”Sign, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Meaning & Excellence: Anzart, Australian & New Zealand Artists in Edinburgh, Edinburgh School of Art, Scotland (and touring Australia)

Comic Stripping, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne

Australian Perspecta '83, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Pirates & Mutineers, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Murdoch Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sebastian Smee, ‘Terracotta worriers: Linda Marrinon’, The Monthly, 1 February 2023, pp. 64 – 67.

Stella Rosa McDonald, 'Linda Marrinon', in The National - New Australian Art, pp. 108-109. Exhibition catalogue.

Kim Guthrie, 'Song to the Siren,' Artist Profile, issue 49, pp. 86-91

Will Cox, 'In the Galleries - Five Shows to See Right Now', Broadsheet, 18 July 2019

'Linda Marrinon wins 2018 Don Macfarlane Prize', Art Guide, 24 August 2018

'LINDA MARRINON AWARDED 2018 DON MACFARLANE PRIZE', Art Forum, August 24, 2018

'Notable Awards', Art Collector, #87, Jan - Mar 2019, pp. 128-130

Toni Ross, Art Forum Reviews, Linda Marrinon, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,Sydney | October Issue, p.291

Robert Nelson, 'Life in miniature looms large at MUMA', Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Sept 2015

Dylan Rainforth, 'Linda Marrinon's superficially old-fashioned sculptures could be from Les Miserables,' Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 2015

Patrick Hartigan, “The sculptural works of William Kentridge & Linda Marrinon”, The Saturday Paper, May 17, 2014.

Doug Hall, 'The Best of Australian Arts 2014', The Monthly - The Arts Issue, October 2014, pp59

Charlotte Day, Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, exh.cat., TarraWarra Museum of Art

Bonny Dot Cassidy, 'Sooper Troopers', The Art Life. Available at: http://artlife.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html

Chris McAuliffe, 'Linda Marrinon, Let Her Try', Craftsman House, Australia

Ashley Crawford, “Linda Marrinon”, Australian Art Collector: 50 Most Collectable Artists 2007, Issue 39, January - March 2007, p. 149

Sebastian Smee, 'Tiers of influence', The Weekend Australian, April 22-23, 2006, p. 18-19

The Idea of the Animal, exhibition catalogue, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Ken Bolton, “Australian Women Artists: Sailing to Tahiti,” Jamini: International Arts Quarterly, November, p. 68 - 79

Chris MacAuliffe, “Linda Marrinon,” See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 82 - 85

Ewen McDonald, “The ever-expanding field,” Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 32 - 36

Peter Hill, “Zero Hour,” Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition `Spectrum,' 2-3 August, 2003, p. 12, 13

Lenny Ann Low, “Lords and ladies,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan) Weekend Edition, 19 - 20 July, 2003, p. 12

Naomi Cass, “Linda Marrinon: Selected Works 1982 -2000,” LIKE, No.15, p.45

Ben Gennochio, “Brashness reduced to boredom”, The Weekend Australian, March 10-11

Robyn McKenzie, “Linda Marrinon and the world's greatest city” LIKE, Art Magazine, no. 10, 1999

C Davidson, “ Landscapes: Linda Marrinon” LIKE, Art Magazine, no.1, 1996

Jenepher Duncan, New Additions: Monash University Collection, exhibition catalogue, Monash University Gallery 1996

“Why Perspecta has lost its hybrid perspective”, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 February 1995

Paul McGillick, “Challenges not Perspecta”, Financial Review , 10 February 1995

Natalie King, “Hothouse varieties”, Art and Asia Pacific, vol 2, no.3 1995

Rachel Kent, “Bad Toys” Globe E , no.1

Robyn McKenzie, “Linda Marrinon: A Human Comedy”, Art & Text # 48 May 1994

Natalie King, Bad Toys exhibition catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 1994

Chris McAuliffe, “The question of Linda Marrinon”, Transcultural Painting, exhibition catalogue, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1994

Kay Campbell, 'Out of Humour Wit's End', exhibition catalogue, Barbarism & Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1993

Chris McAuliffe, “Post-Modern Parody: The Work of Linda Marrinon,” Art and Australia

Vol. 29 No. 3 Autumn, Sydney 1992

J. Mendelssohn, “Champagne selection”, The Bulletin, 14 July 1992

K. Bolton, “Art commentary - Adelaide 1990:, Otis Rush, no. 6/7 1990

Naomi Cass, N. Linda Marrinon Agenda # 9 December, Melbourne 1989

Tony Bond, Form-Image-Sign, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 1984

Sue Cramer, “Comic Stripping”, Art Network, no.12

Lindsay, R. Vox Pop: Into the Eighties exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria,

Melbourne 1983

Murphy, B. & Parfenovics J. Australian Perspecta `83 exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1983

Davies, S. & Dunn, R. “Grappling with Diversity, Australian Perspecta `83” Art Network # 10, 1983

D McGrath, Comic Stripping exhibition catalogue, George Paton Gallery, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1983

Taylor, P. “PoolTalk” Art & Text # 8 Summer, Melbourne 1982

Woman in jumpsuit (2022), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 

Don Macfarlane Prize, Macfarlane Foundation

New Work Grant (Australia Council)

Studio Residency, Greene Street Studio, New York (Australia Council grant)

Studio Residency, Cite International des Arts, Paris (Australia Council grant)

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Australian National University, Canberra

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Melbourne University Gallery

Smorgon Collection, Melbourne

UBS Melbourne

Vizard Collection, University of Melbourne

Lyon Housemuseum