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Marie Hagerty, born in 1964, is an Australian artist. She is known for her paintings and sculptures, and she has also taught art.
About Marie Hagerty
Marie Hagerty was born in Sydney in 1964. She studied art at Meadowbank College in Sydney. Later, she moved to Canberra and earned a degree in Visual Arts from the Canberra School of Art in 1988. She even returned to teach there part-time in the 1990s.
In 1988, Marie had her first art show, called Marie Hagerty: Paintings. An art critic named Sasha Grishin from the Canberra Times reviewed it. He said her art was "full of energy and mischievous wit." He also mentioned that her paintings showed a lot of emotion. Some of her works were described as "powerful and moving." This first show also included three sculptures.
In 1994, Marie was chosen as a finalist for the Moet Chandon Travelling Exhibition. She shared that her art was inspired by "manipulation, Spanish artists, and the Baroque period." She especially admired the artist Velasquez.
In 1998, another art critic, Sebastian Smee, wrote about Marie's work in the Sydney Morning Herald. He praised her amazing technical skills. She learned these skills by carefully studying art from the Renaissance and early Dutch painters. Her artworks often mix real-life shapes with abstract forms. She also uses both oil and acrylic paints, which is quite unique.
Marie was asked by architects Guida Moseley Brown to design the outside of the Peter Karmel building. This building is an extension of the School of Music at the Australian National University. It officially opened in 2001. Her job was to create "a patterning and enlivening of the glazed and solid surfaces of the building's exterior in a large-scale architectural form." Marie said her design focused on "planar manipulation, palette and perception of space." Her design used a lot of white, with black frames on the first floor. The ground floor featured large areas of red. She explained that "The massed red of painted walls and white pillars underscores the motifs above and unifies the pictorial and architectural spaces, including the entrance court."
In 2016, Marie had an exhibition called Blue Blooded at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. It was chosen as one of the top five art shows of the year by art critic Peter Haynes. He called it a "standout exhibition" and said Marie's work was "powerfully incisive and aesthetically beautiful." The art space described her work as having a "luxurious overlay of form and virtuoso use of colour." They felt it was like the "voluptuousness" of Modigliani but without human figures. They also compared it to the abstract, organic art of Jean Arp.
In 2018, Marie Hagerty received the Canberra Capital Arts Patrons' Organisation (CAPO) Fellow award. This award helped her to have an exhibition of her paintings at the Olsen Gruin Gallery in New York. It also supported her in trying a new art style called assemblage, which involves putting different objects together to create art.
Awards and Achievements
Marie Hagerty has won several awards and been recognized for her art:
- 1994: Finalist, Moet Chandon Travelling Exhibition.
- 2003: Winner, Canberra Art Prize.
- 2004: Joint winner of the John McCaughey Memorial Prize.
- 2005: Wynne Prize finalist.
- 2006: Wynne Prize finalist.
- 2007: Wynne Prize finalist.
- 2008–09: She had an art residency in Switzerland at the ANU School of Art Schloss Haldenstein.
- 2018: Canberra Capital Arts Patrons' Organisation (CAPO) Fellow for 2018–19.
- 2019: Shortlisted for the Guirguis New Art Prize, a national art prize at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
