Plaster Busts, 2014

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of recent work by Linda Marrinon. Plaster Busts will exhibit a new series of seven portrait busts that appear to be unearthed from another era. In Marrinon’s hands the Classicism and weightiness of traditional portraiture is contrasted with whimsical references to contemporary culture. The busts draw on fashions from various periods, continuing Marrinon’s interest in the decorated body and the history of art. Their wardrobe of accessories – scarves, hats, buttons etc. have their say – externalizing clues about the identity, temperament, and ego within the given human frame. 

Linda Marrinon has exhibited widely since the early 1980s and has been the subject of major survey shows at The Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne and The Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. She recently exhibited a group of eleven sculptures in Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Marrinon’s work is held by all the major public institutions in Australia including the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. In 2001, Marrinon was a recipient of the prestigious Samstag Fellowship, which permitted her to study at the New York Academy of Art. In 2008 Chris McAuliffe authored a monograph on Marrinon’s work, Let Her Try, published by Craftsman House. Recent Sculpture is Marrinon’s eleventh solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.