Artist: Marian Quigley

Year: 2022

Dimensions: (W x D x H)  76 x 3.5 x 51cm

Medium: Acrylic

A former art teacher and academic, Marian returned to painting following her retirement

and began exhibiting in 2009.

Marian works with acrylics incorporating vibrant colour, minimalism and hard-edge

abstraction and chooses diverse subject matter. Her formative influences include the Post

Impressionists; the simplicity and bold design of Japanese woodcuts and the organic,

flowing line of Art Nouveau. The Australian artist Jeffrey Smart is also a source of

inspiration.

A regular exhibitor in Gippsland and Melbourne; Marian is represented by Sol Gallery,

Fitzroy where she held two successful solo exhibitions in 2024 and 2025.

Marian has been a finalist in several national art awards including the Portia Geach

Memorial Award and the Maritime Art Award.

Previous exhibitions:

Finalist

Omnia Art Prize, St Kevins College, Toorak, 2025

Feel Good Art Prize, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn, 2023

Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland, 2021, 2023, 2024

Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, 2020

Maritime Art Award, Mission to Seafarers Victoria, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Art Lovers Australia Prize, 2020, 2021, 2022

Bluethumb Art Prize, 2021, 2022, 2023; Semi-finalist 2018

SBS Portrait Prize, Southern Buoy Studios, Mornington, 2019, 2022

Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2017

Who is Looking at You? Portrait Exhibition, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood, 2015, 2018

NAB Flanagan Art Exhibition, St Patricks College, Ballarat, 2016, 2017

Solo Exhibitions

City and Country, Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, 2025

Melbourne Icons, Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, 2024

Rhythms & Blues, Mr Percival Cafe, Malvern East, 2014

Entangled, LiTTLE ArtSpace, Milawa, 2011

Exhibitions by Selection

Affordable Art Fair, Sol Gallery, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 2024, 2025

Bluethumb x Southern Buoy 40 x 40 Exhibition, Bluethumb Gallery, Richmond, 2024

PICES Pop UP Exhibition, Berninneit, Cowes, 2024

Affordable Art Fair, Bluethumb Art, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 2023

Colour Spectrum, Art Lovers Australia Gallery, Collingwood, 2023

Bluethumb Art Award Finalist Exhibition, Richmond, 2022

PICES Pop UP Exhibition, Cowes, 2021

Marvellous Melbourne, Pan Pacific Hotel, South Wharf, Melbourne, 2019

Hidden Faces – The Victorian Salon des Refuses, Pan Pacific Melbourne Hotel, South Wharf, 2018, 2019, 2020

Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn, 2015, 2018

Hobsons Bay Art Show, Williamstown, 2016

Bayside Art Show, Sandringham 2014, 2015

CamART, Camberwell Girls Grammar School, 2013

Melton Art Show, 2011

Open Exhibitions

John Dudley Portrait Prize, Emerald Art Society, Emerald, 2023

EGAG Wrap Small Artwork Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, 2021-2022; 2022-2023; 2023-2024

Landscape Interrupted, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, 2022

Group Exhibitions

PICES Pop In, PICES, Berninneit, Cowes, 2024

Show and Tell, Melbourne & Victorian Artists Inc., Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, 2023

SURreal, Melbourne & Victorian Artists Inc., AGRA Gallery, Camberwell, 2022

Shadows at Play, Melbourne & Victorian Artists Inc., (online) 2021

At Sea, Melbourne & Victorian Artists Inc., Southern Buoy Studio, Mornington, 2021

Melbourne & Victorian Artists Inc., AGRA Gallery, Camberwell, 2020

Crossing the Bridge: recent work by 6 Phillip Island artists, Meeniyan Art Gallery, 2017

Form & Rhythm (with Helen Hill), Blue Pig Gallery, Wonthaggi, 2013

Figure(ing) Landscape (with Helen Hill), Flour Mill Gallery, Euroa, 2012

Reflections (with Heather Carroll), Community Hub Gallery, Inverloch, 2011

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