Marilyn McGrath

sculpture

4 – 26 October 2024

opening
5-7pm Thursday 3 October

Marilyn McGrath has been making sculpture for over sixty years

This new intimate exhibition of nine sculptures showcases her enduring interest in the human form and abstraction in works dating from the 1970s to the 2020s

My central artistic concern has been to communicate sculptural images, which evoke a sense of strength and timelessness out of volume and form. My interest is in the composition of the piece, using different design techniques to intensify the visual impact of the sculpture but still achieving a connection with the viewer

I spend about same amount of time making a small marquette of my idea as I do to making the final enlarged sculpture

Marilyn McGrath was born in Sydney in 1939 and has been exhibiting since 1972. Using mostly traditional materials including marble, bronze, and solid wood, her works can be found in a number of important public collections such as The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle City Art Gallery and Queensland Art Gallery. She has a number of large scale public works around Newcastle NSW csuch as Wheeler Place Plaza and The University of Newcastle

Marilyn has been exhibiting with Robin Gibson Gallery Sydney since 1981, and currently lives and works between Sydney and Melbourne