Marea Reed
'Tis almost fairy time, 2019
Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle cotton rag 300gsm
Framed Height 76 cm x Width 69 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with certificate of authenticity
Description: That enchanted moment, when the magical seems to be so close you can reach out and touch it, exists in the last, gossamer moments of light, before the dark.
Artist Bio:
Marea's distinctive photomedia practice creates open-ended, cinestill-like narratives, often in Arcadian settings, as metaphors for fernweh – or 'farsickness' – a desire to escape to real or imagined places or times – that is at once personal and universal.
Believing in the profound effect of immediate environment upon the psyche, her work explores the intangible threshold between what is seen and what is felt, and considers how these unbiddable responses might materialise, while allowing viewers their own instinctive responses to the story.
Influenced by both the Old Masters and cinematography, she is especially interested in the elusive space between the natural and metaphysical worlds. Her deeply saturated, time-less imagery simultaneously embraces the panoramic and the intimate, suggesting that even the widest landscape can contain intensely private realms; and reflecting the Sublime's concepts of interconnectedness, imminence and the infinite.
Graduating with a BFA in Photomedia from the National Art School in 2022, Marea's work has featured in numerous domestic and international competitions, and been exhibited around Australia, as well as Germany, Spain, and the USA, with works held in private collections in the UK, USA, New Zealand and Australia.