Acknowledgement to Country
Marg respectfully acknowledges the Dhudoroa traditional owners of the land she is living and working on and all elders both past, present, and emerging.
Commitment to Sustainable Practice
Environmental sustainability is at the heart of Marg’s practice. She set’s year-on-year goals and reviews her progress annually. She learns from and shares her sustainable practice learning experiences with her creative community.
Creative Practice
Marg is fascinated with tonal nuances that evolve through photographic image making using found objects. As a body of work is built, themes and narratives emerge that anchor her photographs and photograms in time and place. Current work with insect shells and flora resonates with themes of climate change. Through cataclysmic events such as bush fires, Marg’s photograms harness the regenerative power of nature to show hope and optimism for the future.
A constant theme in Marg’s creative practice is the landscape. The bush environment of her childhood in the Upper Murray had a profound influence on the development of a passion for tone, colour and texture in early drawings and paintings. More recent photographic endeavours investigate the chaos of the bush environment through contrast, tone, and shape. A constant theme is the climate crisis and what her artistic practice can reveal about human interaction with the landscape!
Marg has exhibited many times and pursued a full-time career in secondary and tertiary education in North East Victoria. Photography has been a constant passion. For Marg the crispness of a black and white image both simplifies and amplifies reality.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 2005 MA in Education; La Trobe University
- 1987 Bachelor of Letters, Hons. Anthropology & Prehistory; Australian National University
- 1978 Graduate Diploma Fine Art; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- 1978 Diploma Of Education; Melbourne University
- 1977 Bachelor of Fine Art; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Solo Exhibition History
- 2023/24 Cicada Dance Lines II, Selected Solo Exhibition. Hyphen Gallery, Wodonga.
- 2018 Cicada Dance Lines, Solo Exhibition. Gateway (GIGS) Gallery, Lincoln Causeway Wodonga.
Group Exhibition History
- 2024 PSC Spring Salon Exhibition, Capture Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne
- 2024 Black & White, Gateway Gallery, Lincoln Causeway Wodonga.
- 2024 Australian Photographic Prize, Photography Studies College, South Melbourne & online.
- 2024 AI: The End of the Lens? Photo Exhibition, Wolfhound Gallery, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
- 2024 Guest Artist, Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition, Corryong Hall.
- 2024 Tastes of Rutherglen Art Exhibition, Rutherglen Town Hall.
- 2023 Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition, Corryong Hall.
- 2022 Stories from Crevice Communities Exhibition, Charles Sturt University Gallop Gallery, Wagga.
- 2022 The Mono Awards, Australian Photography & Capture magazine.
- 2022 Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition, Corryong Hall.
- 2022 Tastes of Rutherglen Art Exhibition, Rutherglen Town Hall.
- 2022 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy.
- 2021 Crevice Communities, Charles Sturt University online Symposium and Exhibition
- 2021 Isolation, GIGS Annual Members Exhibition, GIGS Gallery, Lincoln Causeway Wodonga.
- 2021 Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition, Corryong Hall.
- 2021 Tastes of Rutherglen Art Exhibition, Rutherglen Town Hall.
- 2020 Listening in the Anthropocene, Charles Sturt University online Symposium and Exhibition.
- 2020 Tastes of Rutherglen Art Exhibition, Rutherglen Town Hall.
- 2019 Chiltern Art Prize, Chiltern Town Hall.
- 2019 Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition, Corryong Hall.
- 2014 Euroa Fungi Festival Art Exhibition, Euroa Art Gallery.
- 2005 Hume Building Society, Acquisitive Art Award, selected exhibitor, Arts Space, Wodonga.
- 2004 Times Three: invited participant, Tertiary Education Staff Exhibition, Albury Regional Gallery.
- 2004 Those Who Can Teach, selected exhibitor, Arts Space, Wodonga.
- 2002 Albury Art Prize, selected exhibitor. Albury Regional Art Gallery
- 2000 Albury Art Prize, selected exhibitor. Albury Regional Art Gallery.
- 1994 Albury Art Prize, selected exhibitor. Albury Regional Art Gallery.
- 1990 Albury Art Prize, selected exhibitor. Albury Regional Art Gallery.
- 1988 Women Photographed by Women, Munich Academy of Adult Education, Schweinfurt, Germany.
- 1979 Wagga Art Prize, selected exhibitor, Wagga Art Gallery.
- 1978 Latrobe University Sculpture Scape, Latrobe University, Bundoora. Melbourne.
Publications
- 1984 Air Niugini, Paradise Magazine, no 47. July. Sepik Revisited. Photo Journal.
Awards
- 2024 1st Prize, PSC Spring Salon Exhibition, Capture Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne.
- 2024 Silver Award, ‘Weed Exploration 1’, Creative Photography, Australian Photographic Prize.
- 2024 Highly Commended, ‘Weed Exploration 2’, Creative Photography, Australian Photographic Prize.
- 2024 1st Prize, ‘Solstice Mandala’, Illustrative Photography. Tastes of Rutherglen Art Exhibition.
- 2023 Artist of the Year. Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition.
- 2022 Highly Commended, ‘Tribal Doug’ The Mono Awards, Australian Photography & Capture Magazine.
- 2022 Highly Commended, ‘Washing Line’ The Mono Awards, Australian Photography & Capture Magazine.
- 2022 1st Prize Photography. Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition.
- 2021 3rd Prize Photography Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition.
- 2020 Highly Commended, Photography. Tastes of Rutherglen Art Exhibition.
- 2019 Artist of the Year. Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition.
- 2019 1st Prize Photography, Man from Snowy River Festival Art & Photography Exhibition.
- 1989 Australian Photography, Readers Award, November. Photo of a PNG Highlander.
Educational Awards
2016 North East Area TyKandjiai & Dha-ung Stand Strong Award- Outstanding Commitment to Aboriginal Education.
Citations
Bremmer, Craig. “New sounds from things missing.” Fusion Journal, no. 19, 2021, pp. 178-181. http://www.fusion-journal.com/New sounds from things missing/
Munday, J. and Rowley, J. 2019 “Art and Identity: Secondary Students Discovering a “Sense of Self” Through Creating Artworks and Webpages”. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ab-original/article-abstract/3/1/1/201787/Art-and-Identity-Secondary-Students-Discovering-a?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Memberships
- Charles Sturt University Creative Practice Circle
- Gateway (GIGS) Gallery Lincoln Causeway Wodonga