Maria Blackwell is a visual artist based in Hobart, Tasmania.
Her work invokes pathos and humour, navigating displacement and belonging in the human experience. She is interested in people and their stories, the construct of memory, and narratives informed by culture, location and migration. She experiments with communicating stories through visual material, text and sound.
She began her Fine Art studies in Dublin (Colaiste Dhulaigh) before relocating to Melbourne to complete a BA in Fine Art (RMIT). She received a scholarship to study Photography and Painting in Mexico (UDLAP), and in 2015 completed Honours in Painting at the University of Tasmania.
Contact
︎︎︎ 0457627489
︎︎︎ mariablackcape@gmail.com
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Maria Blackwell
Born Dublin, Ireland.
Lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
EDUCATION
BA Fine Art Honours, First Class
University of Tasmania, 2015
BA Fine Art
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2013
Exchange Semester
Universidad de Las Americas Puebla, Mexico 2012
Diploma of Fine Art
Colaiste Dhulaigh, Ireland 2009
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sonic Double, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
(2 person show with Claudine Arendt)
2023
Curator- Microgravity, The Long Gallery,
Hobart
2022
Curator- Shapeshifter, Rosny Barn, Hobart
2021
Rare Sunlit Water, Project Space, CAT, Hobart (solo)
Curator- The Pink Palace- from isolation, Schmørgåsbaag, Hobart
Curator- Rill, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
2020
Indivisible, The Long Gallery, SAC, Hobart
Strange + uncertain, Sawtooth ARI (online release, solo)
Solar winds or City Lights, Rosny Farm, Hobart (Collaboration with Nadege Philippe-Janon)
2018
The Pink Palace, Constance ARI show for Dark Mofo, Hobart
Unplugged, LOOP Festival 2018, Estudio Nomada, Barcelona
2017
Through the window was a picture, Top Gallery, SAC, Hobart (Solo)
Reel to Real, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart (curated by Andrew Harper)
LOOP, The Long Gallery, SAC, Hobart (2 person show with Milly Yencken)
2016
There’s a hole in the wall, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston (Collaboration with Lucy Parakhina)
2015
Groundless Narrative, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart (Solo)
Elephant in the Dark, VIC University Gallery, Melbourne (MAFA) HOB-ART 001, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart
2014
Other Painting, Nest, Melbourne (Solo)
Contain Yourself Art Residency Footscray, Melbourne (MAFA)
Conference of the Birds, Laneway Artspace St Kilda, Melbourne (Melbourne Artists For Asylum/MAFA)
2013
Close to Two Hundred, RMIT, Melbourne
OTHER
2020
Artist in residence (studio awarded for 12 months) Contemporary Art Tasmania
Constance Artist Run Initiative- Appointed board member
2019
Wilderness Residency, Cockle Creek, Tasmania – supported by Arts Tas
Painter in residence, Hound in the Hunt, MONA
Integrating Art and Nature (Expressive Arts Ireland), Kilkenny, Ireland
2018
Artist in Residence (AIR) at Tasmanian College of the Arts
Mas Els Iglos Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2013
Kings ARI Internship, Melbourne
Board member of MAFA- Melbourne Artists for Asylum
2012
International Exchange Scholarship (Latin America), UMAP, Australia
2009
Student of the Year Award, Colaiste Dhulaigh, Dublin, Ireland
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
A Night at the Mirage (album cover)
Rough Skies, 2021
In her own words (written piece about The Pink Palace for Dark Mofo)
The Art Newspaper, 2018
Bricks and Feathers (album cover)
Hot Drop Records, 2015
Pony Cunt Nightmare (illustration)
The Lifted Brow, 2014
Self-Titled (album cover)
Pippa Andrew Publishing, 2014
Stilts Does Dads (illustration)
The Lifted Brow, 2013
The Bones on Black (album cover)
Hot Drop Records, 2012
Long way to be free (album cover)
Hot Drop Records, 2010
︎by Remi Chauvin