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Marisa Purcell

Australia

For Marisa paint acts as a medium between the empirical world of knowing and a release into the unknown. Her method stretches paint’s physical qualities, combining thinly veiled layers of colour, allowing paint to pool and dry slowly. Through this she builds strange relationships of shape and scale while marking graphic rhythms at varying speeds and densities, risking awkward crises that stand as metaphors for everyday life.

Marisa holds a MA Visual Arts from SCA, University of Sydney and a Master of Art Administration from the UNSW, College of Fine Art. Her work is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally and she has received numerous awards, residencies and fellowships. She was recently a finalist in the Sulman Prize at the AGNSW.

“The work is purposely abstract expressionist. It’s like there’s no room for tidiness because they’re so gradient and clean. I like to make a mess on the edge because that is the is the push and the pull - the discord within the beauty."