The Invited Artists of SWELL Sculpture Festival 2024
Invited artists bringing innovation and inspiration to SWELL
DONNA MARCUS
QLD
PIVOT
Familiar objects reimagined in public space, draw the viewer back into their own worlds, their own memories, small personal moments are made large in public space.
More about Donna Marcus
Donna Marcus is an Australian artist best known for her use of vast collections of discarded aluminium kitchenware. Constructed from discarded kitchen utensils – plastic and aluminium teapots, lids, jelly moulds, steamers, colanders, egg poachers and bottle-tops – her sculptures draw viewers into a world of kitchens both remembered and imagined. Marcus is engaged by the stories evoked by these objects, and by the familiarity they engender in many viewers. Their original uses are recalled and extended by the process of assemblage, as they are combined into the repetitive forms of modernist grids and spheres. The materials themselves generate another layer of reference, and further extend the modernist impulse to regularity, repetition, and dream.
Marcus has exhibited extensively both within Australia and internationally, appearing in major sculpture survey and award exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Art and Design, New York, the National Gallery of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Recent solo exhibitions include Donna Marcus: Radiate a 20-year survey at HOTA, Gold Coast and Pallet at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert Sydney. Marcus’ large-scale permanent public artworks can be found nationally and internationally. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, nationally and internationally, and has been the subject of several scholarly and journalistic publications. Donna Marcus holds an Adjunct position at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University and she is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.
Instagram @donnamarcus_
Website www.donnamarcus.com.au
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IMAGE: Courtesy of the artists