Marion Manifold 'Rose' hyper-real Dimensions: 80 x 96 cm

Dimensions: 80 x 96 cm

Among Melbourne's earliest artist-run-initiatives

aircrafts and iconic VB cans litter the scene

picturing her as half woman

Dimensions: 66 x 101 cm

Marion Manifold 'Rose' hyper-real Dimensions: 80 x 96 cmAcclaimed artist Marion Manifold is interested in female identity. Her work is a collage of influences the history of her family, an early Victorian pioneering family, her surrounding volcanic landscape and iconography from the history of settler women. The results, of which ruby red Rose is an example, are intricate visual puzzles. Fragments of an eye, basalt rock, lace, rose and brick thatch together to recall that personal history always intersects