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Born in Nhill, Victoria, Australia.
Born in Nhill, Victoria, Australia.
Diploma Fine Art Painting, SA School of Art, 1973-76
Post Graduate Studies, New York Studio School, NY, 1979-80
Lived and worked in Paris, 1989-1998
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions (since 2000)
2024 Star Matter, Jan Manton Gallery Brisbane
2023 Rhythms, Chords, Cadences (revisited), Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2022 In Focus, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Melbourne Art Fair, VIC
2021 Silent Symphony, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2019 Luminous Void, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2018 Sydney Contemporary Profile, Carriageworks, Dominik Mersch Stand
2017 Moon’s Ghost, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Signature Works, Turner Galleries, Perth
2016 Marion Borgelt: Memory & Symbol, 20-year Survey, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
Our Turning World, Karen Woodbury Fine Art, Melbourne.
2015 A Delicate Balance, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2014 Luminous Light, Allens Art Projects, Melbourne
Full Circle Red, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Marion Borgelt: Wabi-Sabi and Other Influences, Port Macquarie Glasshouse Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 So Near So Far, inaugural exhibition, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2012 To see a world in a grain of sand…, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne
Musical Geometry, Turner Galleries, Perth
2011 Rhythms, Chords & Cadences, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
Heartbeat, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2010 Marion Borgelt: Mind & Matter, A 15 Year Survey, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
2009 Exotic Particles, Turner Galleries, Perth
Moonlight in my Veins, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2007 Flux & Permanence, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
360º, inaugural exhibition, Turner Galleries, Perth
2006 Nothing is Invisible,Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Man’s Destiny Resides in the Sole, site-specific commemorative installation, BataShoe Museum, Toronto, Canada
2004 Sol y Sombra, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2003 Hourglass, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
White Room Black Room, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Allegoria, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
2001 Incarnations: Suspended, Uniting Church, Paddington, Sydney
2000 Fade to Red I, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 A PRINTER’S PROOF: The Fred Genis Collection, curated by Pedram Khosronejad, Grafton Regional Gallery
2023 Revolving Summer Group Exhibition, curated by Mayer Hendler, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert
Sydney Contemporary, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2022 Evince, curated by Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert
A Thousand Different Angles, McClelland Gallery, VIC
2021 Bloomin’ Art, curated by Joanne Duncan, Wollongong Art Gallery
Know My Name, curated by Deborah Hart and Elsbeth Pitt, National Gallery of Australia
2020 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Arts Centre
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo, VIC
2019 Between the Moon and the Stars, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin
The Moon, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Sydney Contemporary, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
Opening Exhibition: Group Show, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
The Fall, Curated by Alanna Irwin, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2018 Conscious Process, Curated by Lucy Willett, Artbank, Sydney
2017 50fifty, Curtin University, Perth
A Discernible Air, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
‘10’ Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Dominik Mersch Gallery
Sydney Contemporary, Dominik Mersch Stand, Carriageworks, Sydney
2016 Op Art, A Curated Exhibition, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Winter Group Show, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Art Central Hong Kong, Dominik Mersch Gallery Booth, Hong Kong
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Dominik Mersch Stand, Carriageworks, Sydney
Group Show, Karen Woodbury Gallery, 2015
4…7…11, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydne
Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney
2013 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
You carry it with you, curated by Alison Eggelton, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, VIC
Vibrant Matter, curated by Anthony Fitzpatrick, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healsville, VIC
10 Years: 30 Residencies, Turner Galleries, Perth
2012 Revealed: Inside the private collections of South Australia, Samstag Museum, Adelaide
New Acquisitions, Port Macquarie Glasshouse Regional Gallery, NSW
Deep Space: new acquisitions from the Australian Art Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Stage Singapore 2012 (Dominik Mersch Gallery), Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore
Ten Years of Things,The University of Queensland, Brisbane
2011 Auckland Art Fair 2011 (Dominik Mersch Gallery), Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, NZ
Vertigo 3, Venice Projects, Berengo Fine Arts, Venice, Italy Recycled Library: Altered Books, Country Arts, SA; Wagga Wagga Art
Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD; Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, QLD
2010 Paper, curator Cheryl Farrell, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
What Surrounds Me, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Form, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW
Spirit Worlds – Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
Slow Burn: A Century of Australian Women Artists from a Private Collection, National Trust, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2010 (Turner Galleries & Dominik Mersch Gallery), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Recycled Library: Altered Books, Gladstone Regional Gallery & Museum, QLD, touring to Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW;
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC; Dubbo Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW
2009 Recycled Library: Altered Books, Artspace, Mackay, QLD
A Series of Short Stories from the Curtin University of Technology Art Collection #1, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University
ofTechnology, Perth
The Brains Trust Art Auction, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney
Hong Kong International Art Fair (Dominik Mersch Gallery), Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, HK
Out of Their Comfort Zone, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2008 Melbourne Art Fair 2008 (Dominik Mersch Gallery; Turner Galleries), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Fifty Years of the Muswellbrook Art Collection 1958–2008, curator Katrina Rumley, Muswellbrook Regional
Arts Centre, NSW
Freestyle Books: Artists’ Books from the Collection, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Wonder, Curiosity, Truth, Belief, The Cosmology Gallery, Gravity Discovery Centre, Gingan, WA
2007 Something Old, Something New, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 07, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Poets Paint with Words, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
The Last Decade, NERAM Acquisitions, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
2006 Fortuna: Art, Collecting and Benefaction, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney
The People’s Choice, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
Melbourne Art Fair 2006 (Turner Galleries), Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
2004 Site: [Unseen], curator Laura Murray Cree, Sherman Galleries at Danks Street, Depot Gallery, Sydney
Festivus 04: One Of, curators Anthony Whelan & Amanda Henry, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Equilibrium: Selected Women Artists, Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC
Selected Collections
- ANU Art Collection, Canberra
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Auckland Museum of Contemporary Art, NZ
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, NZ
- Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
- Limerick City Gallery, Ireland
- Los Angeles County Museum, US
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Murdoch University Collection, Perth
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- University of Sydney, NSW
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of Tasmania, Hobart
- University of Technology, Sydney
Selected Commissions
2022 Ad Astra, St Catherine’s, Sydney; Commissioned by St Catherine’s School
2020 Musical Spheres, Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney; Commissioned by AMP Capital
Western Aurora, Parmelia Hilton, Perth; Commissioned by Hawaiian Group
2019 52 Lift Lobbies for MORPHEUS Hotel, Macau; Commissioned by Melco Crown Resorts
2018 Cascadence, Tower One, Levels 44-46 Barangaroo, Sydney; Commissioned by Baker McKenzie
2016 Liquid Light: 77A & 77B Degrees, Crystal Club, Crown Towers, Perth; Commissioned by CROWN
Liquid Light: Sule Triptych and Lunar Descent: Nos. 4 & 5, lobby reception & lift lobbies, Shangri-La, Yangon, Myanmar; Commissioned by Shangri-La
2013 Liquid Light: Horizontal Triptych, Nos. 3 & 4, 20 Bond Street, Sydney; Commissioned by MIRVAC
2012 Liquid Light: 63 degrees & Liquid Light 64 degrees, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington DC; Commissioned by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2011 Candescent Moon, lobby reception, 101 Collins St, Melbourne; Commissioned by 101 Collins Street Pty Ltd
2009 Liquid Light: 56 Degrees, lobby reception, Crown Towers, City of Dreams, Macau; Commissioned by Melco Crown Resorts
Lunar Warp: Cinnabar Trilogy, lobby reception installation, Grand Hyatt, City of Dreams, Macau; Commissioned by Melco Crown Resorts
2005 Man’s Destiny Resides in the Sole, Commemorative installation, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada; Commissioned by Bata Shoe Museum
Round Up Maze, Hay, NSW, in association with Andrew Crick, NSW; Commissioned by Shear Outback Museum
2004 Time and Tide (wait for no man), in association with Andrew Crick, Westfield CBD Sydney; Commissioned by J P Morgan
2000–01 Pulse, Gravitational Wave Research Building, ANU, Canberra, in association with Catherine Donnelley; Commissioned by Australian National University
1999–00 55 Ring Maze, 1.5 hectare cornfield maze, Arthur’s Seat, VIC; Commissioned by Michael Savage
1998–99 Primordial Alphabet and Rhythm, lobby reception, Sydney; Commissioned by News Limited