'South Coast Landscape' by Marie Lund
Marie
was born in Prague, Czech Republic, where she graduated from two Czech
Universities, Palacky University in Olomouc, M Art Ed, and Charles
University in Prague, Dr Art Ed. She came to Australia in 1969 from
Czechoslovakia as a political refugee, following the Russian invasion.
Marie was a full-time art and photography teacher for over twenty years
in Australia and in a number of different countries in Europe and Asia.
She taught in a number of Australian High Schools and Colleges and
worked as an Artist in residence in Primary schools (Master Teacher from
1976), and has been the recipient of seven government grants. She has
visited and lived in a number of countries around the world, and worked
as an Art Educator in European and Asian countries which has included
work for Save the Children Fund.
She has participated in fifty group exhibitions, some in Australia and
some overseas, and has held twelve solo exhibitions. These have included
weaving, painting, printing and photography. In May 2002 she was NAVA’s
Profile Artist on The Visual Arts Network.
Most of her work is in Mixed Media and she has a special interest in old
photographic processes as an art form. By using hand made paper, canvas,
wood or glass which she coats herself with silver gelatine emulsion, and
then employing paint after exposure and development, she feels closer to
the subject matter she concerns herself with at the time of creating the
work. Her current work involves a combination of previous techniques
plus scanning, digital manipulation and printing on watercolour paper. A
favourite is using a hundred years old “printing out process”, where
photographic paper is exposed to sun until the image is clearly visible.
This process helps her create images of fascinating tonal texture.
She is a member of NAVA, PhotoAccess, Eurobodalla Photographic Club,
South Coast Pastel Society, Enquentro and Photomedia Group Alchemy. In
1997 Marie was the originator of the group that became in 2000
MultiFocus and in 2005 MultiFocus Photomedia Artists Inc. Between 1998 -
2005 she was, as a member of MultiFocus, a joint recipient of number of
grants from artsACT and the ACT Office of Multicultural and Community
Affairs, and also in 2001 from ACT Heritage and in 2000 from Nava (Pat
Corrigan grant).
Marie still travels extensively. She regularly returns to Prague and
uses that location as a base for excursions to other parts of Europe,
studying and absorbing both the history of art and new developments. On
the way to and fro she makes sure to have extended stopovers in Asia or
the Americas to broaden the experience. Recently she participated in a
workshop in painting in Italy, and a private master class in the Czech
Republic.
Marie currently lives between the pristine bushland of a national park
and the sea. The close proximity to the beauty and occasional harshness
of nature inspires her imagination and uplifts her spirits.
Exhibition in The Art Vault Mildura
Marie’s work is about the mystery of changes in the life circle, the
transience in life; about seasons and time passing by.
The door handles and key holes
Through her life, she says, she has been deeply dependent on the
memories of her childhood, those she loved and those she knew only from
the stories passed on to her. She returns occasionally to her place of
origin, visiting archives in Prague, Vienna or Silesia and photographing
what is left, be it three pears on the last tree left of her
grandfather’s orchard, where now is a busy metro station. The physical
remains of old abandoned buildings, crumbling doors, the old patina on
handles in her images reflect the nostalgia for the past and her
engagement with her surroundings in a both physical and emotional way.
Her images contain positive and negative symbols and the textural
changes of the subjects represent the alchemy of aging.
Surrounded by nature
The selection from her extensive collection of Sun prints and Photograms
represent her experimentation to find the perfect combination of subject
and the technology to capture the sense of place with respect for the
environment she lives in. They reflect her physical engagement with
nostalgic aspects of imagination by staining, hand-coating or
hand-colouring the prints and by this making them not reproducible.
The winter sun
The winter sun images correspond with her obscured, subluminal visions
as metaphors for states of being.
1967 -
B.A. and Dip. Ed., Palacky University, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
1969 - Post-Grad. Study in Special Education, Charles University,
Prague, Czechoslovakia
1989 - Doctorate in Art Education (Ped.Dr.), Charles University, Prague,
Czechoslovakia
2011
Simple Alchemy, The Art Vault Gallery, Mildura, NSW
South, PhotoAccess, Manucka Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT
2010
Simple Alchemy Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre, ACT
2009
Simple Alchemy, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre Gallery, Nowra, NSW
2007
Door Handles and Keyholes, The Hive Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2006
Images of Collector Surroundings, Collector Gallery, Collector,
NSW
2003
Nostalgia, Photography, Criterion Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
2002
NAVA, Profile Artist on The Visual Arts Net Side, May
2000
Erika Semler, Weaver and Healer, Photographs exhibited at Sturt Gallery
Shop, Mittagong
1999
Enriching Journeys, Photography, Active Travel, ACT
1997
Chocolate Box Pictures, PhotoAccess, Canberra, ACT
A Mystical Art Exhibition and A Supernatural Comedy, TAP Gallery, Sydney
1995
Lithographs from Chine, Goethe Institute, Bonn, Germany
2011
HIY, Photoaccess Members Show, Hue Davis Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2010
Holiday Snaps, Huw Davies Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2009
HIY (Hang it Yourself) Huw Davies Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Eurobodalla Photographic Society Exhibition, Mechanical Institute
Gallery, Moruya, NSW
Naked Flames, Hibiscus Gallery, Burrill Lake, NSW
2008
Heavenly Bodies, Hibiscus Gallery, Burrill Lake, NSW
Italian Experience, SCPS Members Show, Mechanical Institute, Moruya
Surrounded by Beauty, Eurobodalla Regional Gardens, Batemans Bay, NSW
2007
Stone and Water, Collector Gallery, NSW
Access All Areas 2007, Photoaccess Members Show, Hew Davies Gallery,
Manuka, ACT
2006
40 years of CPS, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, ACT
Wildside of Canberra, Photography, PhotoAccess Arts Centre Gallery,
Manuka, ACT
PhotoAccess Members Shows, also 2003/4/5 Arts Centre Gallery Manuka, ACT
Separatre Journeys, Photomedia, Multifocus, Steps Gallery, Carlton,
Melbourne
2005
John Briscoe Memorial Art Award, Paintings, Raglan Gallery, Cooma, NSW
Separate Realities, Photography, Multifocus, Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Gallery, ACT
History of Migrants, Photography, Multifocus, University of Canberra and
Nat. Archives
Fresh, Photography, CPS, Strathnairn Homestead Gallery, ACT
Alchemy, Photomedia, PhotoAccess Arts Centre Gallery, Manuka, ACT
2004
Refuge? Multifocus, Photomedia, Steps Gallery Gallery, Melbourne
Unknown Destinies, Multifocus, Garema Place, ACT
Mother Earth, Mixed Media, Encuentro, Tuggeranong Art Gallery, ACT
Pictures On The Wall, Photography, CPS, Strathnairn Homestead Gallery,
ACT
Alchemy, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT and Huw Davies Gallery,
PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Manuka, ACT
2003
Alchemy, Criterion Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
Here and There, Mixed Media, Group Encuentro, Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Gallery, ACT
The Amazing Picture Machine, Photography, CPS, Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Gallery,
Refuge? Multifocus, Photomedia, ANCA Gallery, ACT
For those Who’ve Come Across the Seas, Installation, Multifocus, Garema
Place,ACT
2002
Alchemy 1, Photomedia, Group Alchemy, Tuggeranong Art Centre
Continuance, Photomedia, Group MultiFocus, Tuggeranong ACG, ACT
2001
Madonna, Spiral Art Gallery, Kingston, ACT
Madonna, Canberra School of Art, Gallery Foyer Gallery, ACT
Ephemeral Phantasies, Photomedia, Group Chimera, Women Artists, ANCA
Gallery,
Panorama of Uriarra, Multicultural Artists, Tuggeranong Art Centre
Gallery, ACT
Panorama of Uriarra, Multicultural Artists, Belconnen Com. Centre
Gallery, ACT
Echoes from the past, Photographic Exhibition, Group MultiFocus,
Tuggeranong ACG
2000
Starting again, Photographic Exhibition, Group MultiFocus, Tuggeranong
Art Centre,
Feeling sheepish, Belconnen Artists in Boorowa, Galleria del Centro,
Boorowa, NSW
Rear View Mirror, BEAN Members’ Exhibition, Belconnen Com. Centre
Gallery
PhotoAccess Members’ Exhibition, ANCA Gallery, ACT
1999
PhotoAccess Members' Exhibition, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT
1998
Visions and Reflections, Women in Multiculturalism, ANCA Gallery, ACT
The Art of Teaching: Going Public, ACT Arts Festival of Public
Education, OEC
1997
No Cash – Czechs Only, CACA Members’ Exhibition, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
PhotoAccess Members’ Exhibition, Canberra Theatre Gallery, ACT
1996
Multicultural Artists’ Exhibition, Canberra Theatre Gallery, ACT
PhotoAccess Members‘ Exhibition, Canberra Theatre Gallery, ACT
1995
ArtSpectrum: Metamorphoses, CACA Members, Legislative Assembly, ACT
1994
Canberra Art Teachers’ Exhibition, Manning Clark House, Tuggeranong, ACT
1992
Studio One Members’ Exhibition, Spiral Art Gallery, Kingston, ACT
1991
Hong Kong Art Centre Tutors’ Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre Gallery
1975 -
1991
I have participated in number of group shows in Australia and overseas.
2005 -
Multifocus recipient of finantial support from The Office of
Multicultural Affairs
2004 - Multifocus recipient of finantial support from The Office
of Multicultural Affairs and ACT Multicultural Council
2004 - Encuenrtro recipient of finantial support of Arts ACT, The Office
of Multicultural Affairs and ACT Multicultural Council
2003 - Multifocus recipient of finantial support of Arts ACT, The Office
of Multicultural Affairs and ACT Multicultural Council
2003 - Encuentro recipient of finantial support of Arts ACT, The Office
of Multicultural Affairs and ACT multicultural Council
2002 - Multifocus recipient of financial support of Arts ACT, The
Office of Multicultural Affairs and ACT Multicultural Council and The
ACT Heritage Council for fourth exhibition of Multifocus
2001 - MultiFocus recipient of financial support of Arts ACT, The Office
of Multicultural Affairs and ACT Multicultural Council for third
exhibition of MultiFocus.
2000 - Obtained grant from ACT Government’s 1999/2000 Multicultural
Grants Program through the Office of Multicultural & International
Affairs for exhibition of MultiFocus
1999 - Coordinator of the second exhibition of MultiFocus, Obtained the
Pat Corrigan Grant through NAVA for year 2000
1998 - Coordinator of the first exhibition of MultiFocus, obtained
grants from the Office of Multicultural and International Affairs of ACT
Government; ECC of ACT and Director of Canberra Multicultural Festival.
1995 - Grant from ACT Government, Department of Environment, Land and
Planning, Artist in Residence Scheme, Exploring the marine and costal
environment through Art, School Without Walls.
1982-1976 - Various Grants for Education through Art, from Department of
Education
1976 - Awarded: “ Master Teacher” from ACT Department of Education