MARISA PURCELL AUSTRALIA

Marisa Purcell is an Australian visual artist who has been exhibiting regularly since 2000. She has held solo exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA and her work appears in both private and public collections. Marisa works primarily in abstraction, where fields of paint saturate the large linen surfaces. Her work is said to evoke physical sensations, beyond the verbal and literal responses that are asked of us so much. Her work invites a connection that reminds us of our essential natures.

 

The essential tone of a colour, and its emotional resonance Marisa’s primary motivation. In its essence, painting can saturate the viewer with a connective feeling- one that bypasses the verbal and acts as a mirror. In her practice, she uses multi-layered surfaces which change depending on the viewing angle. Marisa has developed a distinctive language of abstraction which calls to mind the way our perception functions and invites the viewer to become aware of the act of looking. The compositions convey a sensation of warped space, revealing her interest in perception. There is a dynamic tension in Marisa’s paintings between amorphous floating fields of colour and the veiled edges they sit upon.