Bullock, Natasha, Cole Kelli, Hart, Deborah, Pitt, Elspeth (eds.), Know My Name, exh. cat., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (November 14, 2020–May 9, 2021), Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2020
→Day, Charlotte, Linda Marrinon: Figure Sculpture, 2005-2015, Caulfield East, Monash University Museum of Art, 2015
→McAuliffe, Chris, Linda Marrinon: Let Her Try, Fishermans Bend, Craftsman House, 2007
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. Part One, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, November 14, 2020–May 9, 2021
→Linda Marrinon. Scene at Edfu and Other Sculptures, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, October 30–November 28, 2020
→On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, June 29–September 1, 2019
Australian contemporary painter and sculptor.
Linda Marrinon has exhibited nationally and internationally since the mid-1980s. L. Marrinon is an artist of quiet and enduring practice renowned for shunning the media spotlight, echoed in the elegant poise of the figurative statuettes for which she is best known. L. Marrinon attracted critical acclaim shortly after graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in the 1980s. In the early years she embraced wry appropriation and comic-strip humour, experimenting with the assemblage of found objects, and combining bold graphic imagery and flat text paintings to craft her own cheeky mode of feminist satire. Hey Waitress (1987) is a large painting of a dramatically cropped female hip and bottom falling off the edge of the frame and leaning over an assumed table in a brash red miniskirt. It employs a Pop Art sensibility, using the familiar visual language of hand-painted advertising that recalls a time before multinational corporations became the status quo. In a tongue-in-cheek way, the painting draws attention to the universally uncomfortable and often compromising experience of dealing with sexist slurs as a woman working in the hospitality industry.
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