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Australia Artist List

Ann-Maree Gentile
Audrey Kitiching
Bimba Dissanayake
Ingrid Dusselberg
Kathy Fahey
Margaret Kettels
Margery Hummel Bennett
Marina Holland
Maureen Slatter
Roma McLaughlin
Sandra Angliss
Sharon Hodgson-Riley
Shirley Straford
Sue Apted-Muir

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Marina Holland - Australia

Born:

1951 Brisbane, Australia

Occupation:

Artist/ Teacher

Education:

1993 Assoc. Diploma of Art, Melbourne College of Textiles (now RMIT)

1989 Tertiary Orientation Program (Art&Design), Box Hill College of TAFE

1985 B. Special Education, Monash University

1977 B.A. (Hons.), University of Queensland

1971 Diploma of Education, Kedron Park Teacher’s College

Media:

Textiles, canvas, collage; all forms of fabric dyeing, painting, manipulating and decorating.

Experiences related to Art:

Artist in Residence: Box Hill Community Arts Centre (1995-96) and in two Primary Schools; Community arts projects; teaching: Meat Market Craft Centre, Textile Fibre Forum (Geelong).

Honours and Awards:

1990 and ‘91: Best Student Awards in Advanced Certificate in Studio Textiles, M.C.T. (now RMIT)

Solo Exhibitions:

1999 CANVASS: Living Colour Studio, Melbourne

1998 INVOKATION: Queen Vic Women’s Centre Artspace, Melbourne

1996 FIELDS OF TIME/ FIELDS OF ETERNITY, Box Hill Community Arts Centre

Group Exhibitions:

12 group exhibitions 1991-2006, include:

2006: HER PRESENCE IN COLOURS (VII) Australian Chapter, Melbourne

2005: JOURNEYS: Australian Quilts in Public Places, Waterloo, Canada

2004: HER PRESENCE IN COLOURS (VI), Melbourne

2003:JOURNEYS: Australian Quilts in Public Places, Fort Mason Museum of Art & Craft, San Francisco

2000: POSTCARDS: Fairfield City Gallery, Sydney

2000: EXPLORING AUSTRALIAN SPIRITUALITY, Fringe Festival, Adelaide.

Important Collections:

Commissions: Melbourne College of Textiles (now RMIT), Augustine Parish Church, Hawthorn, Melbourne.

Marina Holland Australia

" Colour! It is the colours I used in paintings and drawings as a very young child, that I remember. Colour has been intensely interesting to me ever since. The colours and patterns of the textiles used, many years ago, to make dresses for my mother, grandmother, aunt, and for me and my dolls, are printed in my memory. Fabrics still hold that fascination for me. I dye and print fabrics to create quilts and other textile art. Dozens of embroidery threads are often dyed, along with the fabrics, to add embroidery and then beading to the artwork. ‘Shibori Field’ is a study in shibori dyeing. It is also an exploration of Australia’s vivid, scorched-red desert landscapes and the softer colours of its fertile, productive regions around the coastline."