Marina Mason is a visual artist based in Melbourne. Her intuitive, experimental and often playful approach to art making merges painting with sculpture and collage.
Marina Mason is a visual artist based in Melbourne. Her intuitive, experimental and often playful approach to art making merges painting with sculpture and collage.
Headshot painting by Angie de Latour (2021)
Headshot painting by Angie de Latour (2021)
Headshot painting by Angie de Latour (2021)
MARINA MASON
MARINA MASON
ART OF MYTH, CIVILIZATION & ARCHETYPE
ART OF MYTH, CIVILIZATION & ARCHETYPE
ART OF MYTH, CIVILIZATION & ARCHETYPE
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Incorporating drawing and painting into sculpture, the work explores themes that resonate on a personal, collective and unconscious level.
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Incorporating drawing and painting into sculpture, the work explores themes that resonate on a personal, collective and unconscious level.
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Incorporating drawing and painting into sculpture, the work explores themes that resonate on a personal, collective and unconscious level.
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"When the soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it."
—Meister Eckhart
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"When the soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it." —Meister Eckhart
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"When the soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it." —Meister Eckhart
PAINTINGS: LAYERS OF EXPRESSION
PAINTINGS: LAYERS OF EXPRESSION
A painting presents a layered world of thought and meaning that can lead to a slow unfolding of the heart.
A painting presents a layered world of thought and meaning that can lead to a slow unfolding of the heart.
SCULPTURES: TACTILE AND TRANSFORMATIVE
SCULPTURES: TACTILE AND TRANSFORMATIVE
The intensely physical process of working with clay is primal—shaping the clay with bare hands and witnessing its transformation in the heat of the kiln.
The ceramics of Marina Mason make do with their own energies in a kind of ramshackle aesthetic that ends up somewhat majestic.“
Robert Nelson
Art Critic for 'The Age' newspaper
This exhibition of ceramics and works on paper explores themes of balance and contradiction.
Parallel Projects: 'It's a Circus'
Aug-Sep 2024
This exhibition of ceramics and works on paper explores themes of balance and contradiction.
Parallel Projects: 'It's a Circus'
Aug-Sep 2024
‘Break A Leg’ - a diverse exhibition of sculptures made from paper, clay and found materials - conveys the drama, illusion and visual excitement of the theatre.
North Gallery: 'Break a Leg'
August 2024
This exhibition of ceramics and works on paper explores themes of balance and contradiction.
Parallel Projects: 'It's a Circus'
August 2024
‘Break A Leg’ - a diverse exhibition of sculptures made from paper, clay and found materials - conveys the drama, illusion and visual excitement of the theatre.
North Gallery: 'Break a Leg'
August 2024
‘Break A Leg’ - a diverse exhibition of sculptures made from paper, clay and found materials - conveys the drama, illusion and visual excitement of the theatre.
North Gallery: 'Break a Leg'
August 2024
‘Break A Leg’ - a diverse exhibition of sculptures made from paper, clay and found materials - conveys the drama, illusion and visual excitement of the theatre.
North Gallery: 'Break a Leg'
August 2024
This exhibition takes female-oriented moments, with delicate Indian Miniature like renderings sitting alongside cheerful ceramic Baroque.
Tinning Street Presents: 'Fountain'
July 2021
This exhibition takes female-oriented moments, with delicate Indian Miniature like renderings sitting alongside cheerful ceramic Baroque.
Tinning Street Presents: 'Fountain'
July 2021
This exhibition takes female-oriented moments, with delicate Indian Miniature like renderings sitting alongside cheerful ceramic Baroque.
Tinning Street Presents: 'Fountain'
July 2021
In this exhibition horses and women…reclaim their lack of place in the history of civilisation.
Tinning Street Presents: 'Untethered'
July 2019
In this exhibition horses and women…reclaim their lack of place in the history of civilisation.
Tinning Street Presents: 'Untethered'
July 2019
In this exhibition horses and wome reclaim their lack of place in the history of civilisation.
Tinning Street Presents: 'Untethered'
July 2019
Unburdened by the rules and conventions of ceramics, Mason works vigorously and intuitively. Clay and paint come together as one.
Tacit Galleries: 'Out Stealing Horses'
May - June 2018
Unburdened by the rules and conventions of ceramics, Mason works vigorously and intuitively. Clay and paint come together as one.
Tacit Galleries: 'Out Stealing Horses'
May - June 2018
Unburdened by the rules and conventions of ceramics, Mason works vigorously and intuitively. Clay and paint come together as one.
Tacit Galleries: 'Out Stealing Horses'
May - June 2018
Unburdened by the rules and conventions of ceramics, Mason works vigorously and intuitively. Clay and paint come together as one.
Tacit Galleries: 'Out Stealing Horses'
May - June 2018
