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DAAO URL

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marion-borgelt

Birth Place

Nhill, Vic., Australia

Biography

Marion Borgelt draws inspiration from semiotics, language and phenomenology to create atavistic fantasies and mysteries in the forms of painting, sculpture and installation. Her work suggests connections between culture and nature, between the constructed world and the organic world, between microcosm and macrocosm, and the duality of light and dark. A lexicon of symbols and motifs, at once universal and personal, distinguishes the imagery of Borgelt’s work. Drawing on experience with a wide range of materials, including beeswax, canvas, felt, pigment, stainless steel, wood, stone and organic matter, she hones her ideas to the demands of a given site, mediating the creative intervention with originality and sensitivity. Marion Borgelt is the recipient of many significant art awards. In 1976, she received the Harry S. Gill Medal as most outstanding final year student, South Australian School of Art. A Peter Brown Memorial Travelling Art Scholarship allowed for study in New York (1979-80); and in 1989, she was awarded a fellowship from the French Government for living and working in Paris, where she spent eight years. In 1996, Borgelt became the first Australian artist awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Most recently, she received a two-year Australia Council Fellowship (2001-03).Borgelt has undertaken a number of large public and corporate commissions, including Liquid Light: Double Wave Trilogy and Lunar Warp, for Goldman Sachs Boardroom, Sydney, and the commemorative sculptural installation for the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, entitled Man’s Destiny Resides in the Soul (both 2005). She created Round Up Maze (2005), a site-specific, interactive maze for Shear Outback, Hay, in collaboration with Andrew Crick; Time and tide (wait for no man) (2004), for JP Morgan Chase, Sydney; Pulse (2001), commissioned by the Australian National University, Canberra, in collaboration with Catherine Donnelley; 55 Ring Maze (2000), at Arthur’s seat, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria; and Primordial Alphabet and Rhythm (1998-99) – a monumental work for News Limited, Sydney. Marion Borgelt has exhibited extensively in major national and international survey exhibitions and is represented in important art collections in Australia and overseas. Writers: Murray-Cree, Laura Date written: 2006 Last updated: 2008

Born

b. 1954

Summary

Painter, mixed media and installation artist. In 1996 Marion Borgelt became the first Australian artist to be awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. In 2001-2003 she was awarded a highly significant two-year Australia Council Fellowship and since 2007 Borgelt has been a member of the board of the well-known Blake Prize for Religious Art.

Gender

Female

Died

None listed

Age at death

None listed