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Marina Graham
 
 
About the Artist

My interest has always been primarily in the human figure.

This can mean a very personal involvement as in my bronze portrait sculptures.

It can also mean the more detatched aesthetic enjoyment I take in the forms and movement of the human body which you will see in my stroboscopic images.

 
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Witchtree (Juliet Dancing) Orange/Green

2007
Archival quality inkjet print on acid free paper
39cm high

Stroboscopic (multiple exposed) photograph of Juliet dancing. Digitally coloured from black and white film. Limited edition of 250 in this size and colour. Other images are available in this colour and height and can be ordered mounted as a group. Price given is for one.

Rising (Juliet Dancing) from Blue Series

2007
Archival quality inkjet print on acid free paper
39cm high x 27cm

Stroboscopic photograph of Juliet dancing. Digitally coloured from black and white film. Other images are available in this colour and height to give the option of having them mounted and framed as a group. Price given is for one. Signed unframed print, printed at much higher resolution than shown here. Edition limited to 250 worldwide in these colours and this size. Two other sizes available (250 of each). Other colours available.

Breast and Palms (Juliet dancing) Red/Brown

2007
Archival quality inkjet print on acid free paper
28cm x 28cm

Multiple exposed (stroboscopic) photograph of Juliet dancing. Digitally coloured from black and white film. Printed at much higher resolution than shown. Can also be ordered as one of a triptych where each version emphasises different aspects of the image. Limited edition of 250 in this size and colour.

Stretching Forward (Juliet dancing) from Red Series

2007
Unframed signed print. Archival inkjet.
39cm high.

Multiple exposed (stroboscopic) photograph of Juliet dancing. Digitally coloured from black and white film. Limited Edition of 250 in this size and colour. Other colours and sizes also available. (All Editions 250). Printed at much higher resolution than shown here.

Cartwheel, Red/Black

2007
Archival quality inkjet print on acid free paper
27cm x 35cm

Stroboscopic photograph of a cartwheel. Digitally coloured from black and white film. Signed unframed print, printed at much higher resolution than shown. Edition limited to 250 worldwide in these colours and this size. Other colours available. One smaller size available. Mounted triptychs of three versions are available where different aspects of the image are emphasised in each one.

Dancer 1

1987
Bronze
23cm high x 23cm wide

Euphoric bronze dancing figure. One of a series of five on this scale.

portrait of Jeremy

1988
Bronze
Lifesize portrait bust.

Sculptured portrait modelled in clay from life and cast in bronze using the lost wax method which has remained essentially unchanged for 4,000 years of world history.

Portrait of Fayçal

1993
Clay
Lifesize portrait head.

Portrait modelled in clay, dried out, rehydrated, frozen solid in Winter, thawed out and cracked up, dried out again, transported in removal van and preserved for casting.

La Papessa

2000
Resin, coloured and waxed.
170cm high

Full length standing polychrome figure.

The Spirit Of Our Grandmother Has Had Enough

2000
Bronze on oak plinth

An archetype, who escaped from my subconscious. Back view.

Witness

1989
Bronze on oak plinth

An archetype escaped from my subconscious. Struggle, suffering, keeping balance under extreme duress.

Breast and Palms (Juliet dancing) Flame Series

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Whirl (Juliet Dancing ) Flame Series

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Three (Juliet Dancing) Black and White Series

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in different versions in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper. In this case a further edition printed in a darkroom from the black and white negative is also possible.

Lean Back (Juliet Dancing) Red Series

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Witchtree (Juliet Dancing) Smoke Series

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Tree Orange/Green

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Atom Bomb (Juliet Dancing) Red/Blue/Green

1983 and 2007

Atom Bomb (Juliet Dancing)  Red/Blue/Green
Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Kicking (Juliet Dancing) Orange/Blue/Pink

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.

Stretching Forward (Juliet dancing) Orange/Green/Blue

1983 and 2007

Stroboscopic Photograph taken in a darkened space. Dancer and Artist deeply absorbed in music and movement. The image was digitally coloured in 2007 from the black and white film taken in 1983. Signed Limited Edition of 250 giclée printed on high white smooth 100% cotton rag paper.
 
Education and biography
I studied French and German at Cambridge University and although I loved it there, I was very torn between two paths and so I followed an overwhelming compulsion to leave in order to do Sculpture and Printmaking at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham.

I have spent periods of my life in Germany, France and Italy and in South Africa.

I began working as a freelance artist in the eighties and did a number of sculptured portraits during this time. I worked as an assistant to the sculptors Andy Mitchell and Richard Cowdy in their bronze foundries in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and have made a number of bronze figures which were cast at these foundries.

During the nineties I broadened the scope of my work to include figure modelling for commercial companies such as Synapse Modelmaking and McAndroids and also did some restoration work, as at Prior Park in Bath, where the 18th Century Italian stucco work had been destroyed by a fire, and which we restored completely by means of close reference to the remaining fragments.

I am currently working on a series of digitally manipulated stroboscopic images. These are based on multiple exposed black and white negatives of the painter and dancer, Juliet Waylen. I have introduced colour into them using digital software. The result is an astounding array of mood changes, which means that the images can work to great effect in many different interiors.

My work has been shown at various venues in London and the West Country including:

Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath

Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford

Shurini Gallery, St James's, London

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Westminster Society of Women Artists, Westminster Gallery, London.

I have also exhibited work locally at Calne Festival and at the Citadel Gallery and the Railway in Chippenham and co-organised and exhibited in '12 Sculptors on Common Ground' with Deborah van der Beek in her garden in Lacock.

Last Show: 'Corsham Revisited'
8 Artists who studied at Bath Academy of Art. Fairfield Gallery. Corsham High St. July 2007.
 
Future shows
Hastings Arts Forum
10-15 April 2009

36 Marina St Leonards, Hastings TN38 OBU

'I Never Tire Of This World I Witness' together with Philip Lee, Naomi Renouf and Andrea Altkuckatz

Also at
Nataraj Artspace
The Old Ropeworks, Kennet Place, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK (since June 2008)
 
Website:  www.marinagraham.co.uk
 
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