Past Resident
2011: Creative Australia
Marian Drew
Marian Drew ‘s work focuses on the hybridisation of drawing and photography through studies in the studio, darkroom and landscape working to develop a language that acknowledges the dynamic relationship between photographer and subject exploited through extended exposure times. The constrained gesture of the photographer becomes interactive working to make the photograph in front of the lens. Drew reorientates and questions contemporary frameworks of history, place and the domestic.
Marian Drew is Associate Professor in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. She graduated from the Canberra School of Art and was awarded a German Government Scholarship studying Experimental Photography, at Kassel University. Since then she has held 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, the United States, France and Germany and contributed to over forty curatorial shows in Australia, China, Taiwan, Germany and the United States. She represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1992 and her first monograph was published in 2006 by the Queensland Centre for Photography.
Marian Drew, Wombat And Watermelon, 2005, Inkjet print, 35 × 43 in. (88.9 × 109.22 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Crow With Salt, 2003, Ink jet photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Emu With Two Drawn Bowls, 2009, Inkjet photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Lorikeet With Green Cloth, 2006, Ink jet photograph, 35 × 43 in. (88.9 × 109.22 cm).
