the churchie emerging art prize

Save the date!

Prize announcement: Friday 22 November 6 to 8 pm at Metro Arts, West End. Churchie families are invited to attend this exciting prize announcement event, open to everyone.

Introducing Marion Abraham, one of 16 finalists in this year’s prize!
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Marion Abraham is a painter living and working in Lutruwita (Tasmania, Australia), investigating the inner workings of the self. Embracing a fiercely tangible approach to the medium, Abraham infuses traditional painting techniques with subversive qualities to create dynamic compositions of the body in the landscape. Guided by feminist instinct and a dark sense of humour, her paintings meld romantic and escapist notions, familiar clichés and art historical references with the muddiness of the natural world. Parallel to these themes, the artist’s practice also operates as a rebuttal to seductive feelings of despair and the mysterious longing she feels between her family’s Lebanese lineage and birthplace in rural Australia. These underlying tensions lead her works from lightness into darkness, and back again, navigating ideas of the soul, reimagining power structures and centring the valorising of care.