Digital Catalogue: 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Marian Drew
b. 1960 Bundaberg QLD, lives Brisbane QLD
Sedentary, 2024
dye sublimation print on aluminium
Image courtesy of the artist © Marian Drew
Artist Statement
Marian Drew is a photographic art practitioner, who has worked through the evolutions of analogue, digital and computerised networks. Drew’s concerns that the photograph separates and distances us from the things it represents has played out through her decades of photographic artwork.
Landscape photographs exemplify this distancing effect. The mythological view of landscape is now changing through new understandings and technologies.
In this work Sedentary, the landscape is construed as something imagined, ambiguous and dynamic; no longer a stable backdrop to human endeavours. The lithic is presented as unstable and closer; a contingent force, integral to geobiological evolutions.
About the Artist
Marian Drew's artwork is held in numerous public collections that include the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, National Gallery of Australia, and the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art.
Drew has represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial 1993, Dubai Photo 2016, Musée du Quai Branly, PhotoQuai, Paris 2011, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China 2010.
She completed a Bachelor of Visual Art in 1984 at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, and was awarded a scholarship from the German government DAAD to study Experimental Photography in Germany.
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Untitled 39, from the series Archive of Longing