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Marion East - Online Exhibition
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"Marion’s work – I think all of it here – was made or inspired by a residency she had at Bundanon, the long time home of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd on the Shoalhaven River near Nowra on the Central Coast of NSW. Bundanon was deeded to the nation by Arthur and Yvonne so that other artists could come there and be inspired by the eternals of the Australian landscape – the interplay of earth, water and sky under the southern sun".
"Some of Marion’s work treats these elements in a quite literal fashion. The trees, rocks, cows and horizon lines and massive skies are immediately recognisable and directly perceived. However, I suspect that these are the trials. The earlier works on the artist’s journey. They are the preparations for the works where the obvious elements have been transformed in abstracted compositions of opalescent colour".
"I don’t believe art has to be beautiful. It’s more important for art to engage the viewer at an emotional or even spiritual level. But these works manage to be emotionally engaging as well as beautiful and I congratulate Marion East for making them and sharing them with us in this exhibition".
Taken from a transcript by Gordon Morrison, Director of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. The speech was givin at the opening of Marion East´s solo show in 2006 at BFAG.
Marion East - Artist Statement
"My work is based on observations of my immediate surroundings, in this case the Australian landscape. In the process of painting, these observations are transformed into multi-layered images of light, pattern, shapes and colour".
To view Marion East Biography click HERE
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