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.