Graham Marchant is a local Sydney artist who made his home in Australia after relocating from England in 1981.
Graham Marchant has had over twenty five solo exhibitions, and been the recipient of several fellowships, awards and artist residencies, enabling him to work in Paris, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, New York and Vermont as well as undertaking more local residencies in Australia.
With over thirty years experience as a practicing artist and art educator, Graham has been a full time artist since 2003. He was President of the Sydney Printmakers between 2003 - 2008 and has been a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute (AWI) since 2005.
Using a life time collection of objects and textiles, Graham constructs an environment belying the casual clutter of collected memento mori from life and nature.
Working in the mediums of drawing, painting and printmaking, Graham intently observes and explores the nature of various objects and the physical environment, and the human need to collect, organise and order the physical environment.
The interplay of light, colour, pattern, and the meticulously detailed placed objects amongst often well known pieces of textiles, including William Morris designs of the early Arts and Crafts movement, are now recognisably Marchant´s own.
Recent Solo Exhibition - August 2019
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Public Collections:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
La trobe University, Australia
Nepean Hospital, NSW, Australia.
Cheltenham Art Gallery UK.
Art Bank, Australia.
New Parliament House, Canberra, Australia.
Australian Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia.
University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.
Hills Grammar School, Sydney, NSW. Australia.
Solo Exhibitions:
The Manuscript Series, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Recent Paintings, Bower House Gallery, Milton, NSW
Group Exhibitions: (Selected)
Finalist, 2018 9x5 Landscape Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art Center Gallery, NSW.
Annual Watercolour Exhibition, AWI, Juniper Hall, Sydney, NSW.
Commended, 2018 Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW.
Waverley Art Award,(Finalist Painting) Waverley Woollahra Art Center Gallery. NSW
Annual Watercolour Exhibition, AWI, Juniper Hall, Sydney, NSW
Awarded Third Prize, Oakhill College Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
Finalist Mudgee Art Prize, Works on Paper Mudgee Regional Art Gallery, Mudgee, NSW
Finalist, The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting. Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD.
13,12,11
Finalist, Art Concerning the Environment, Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, VIC.
Kedumba Drawing Award Exhibition, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
Finalist Exhibition, Waverly - Woolahara Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art Center Gallery, NSW
12,11,10,09,08
Awards:
Residencies:
Artist in Residence, Bundaberg Regional Gallery. QLD
Studio Residency, The Bowery, New York, USA
Artist in Residence, Delphina Studio Trust, Manilva, Spain
Artist in Residence, AGNSW Studio, Cite` International des Arts, Paris.
Artist in Residence, British School at Rome, Italy
Media/Citations/Reviews/Publications:
The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting 2017 (Catalogue) pages 36-37 Published: Feb 22, 2017. ISSU Griffith University
Graham Marchant ~ Painting Fabric in Watercolour (Article) pages 232-235 Painting in Watercolour, The Indispensable Guide. David Webb ISBN-139780857621474, Publishers New Burlington Books 2016, UK.
Australian Artist Magazine March 2016, page 66-70
Brushes with History - Masters of Watercolour Linda and David Van Nunen, Australian Watercolour Institute. Publishers The Beagle Press, Roseville, NSW 2015.
The Manuscript Series, Canberra Times 7 June 2006
Writing:
Commissions:
Collections:
LaLa trobe University, Australia
Nepean Hospital, NSW, Australia.
Cheltenham Art Gallery UK.
Art Bank, Australia.
New Parliament House, Canberra, Australia.
Australian Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia.
University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.
Hills Grammar School, Sydney, NSW. Australia
Private Collections:
