MARIE LE LIEVRE BULLETPROOF FALLING, 7 SEPTEMBER - 1 OCTOBER 2016
In her new exhibition at Bartley Company Art, Marie Le Lievre reveals and expands on the diversity of interests and strategies that have characterised her work over the past decade.
Long interested in disrupting notions of purity, Marie is the sumptuous oil abstractionist who hints at psychosocial baggage, explicitly stacks the building blocks of form, and loosely draws in graphite the paraphernalia of everyday life. Here these components come together in a coherent installation that pushes into new terrain -- experimenting with materials and techniques and introducing symbolic imagery.
With a highly commended award in the recent 2016 Parkin Drawing Prize, Marie's new works also see the drawn line taking a more prominent place in her mark making -- pencil lines doodle, dance, scratch and hieroglyphically wend their way across the delicately gessoed surfaces.
Titles play alongside the work suggesting readings and capturing contradictions in her own bodies of work and in art and the artist's place and role in the world: Bulletproof Falling -- invincible and fallible, magical and fragile.
Marie Le Lievre completed a Master of Fine Arts with distinction at the University of Canterbury in 2008. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand and in Australia, France and Japan. Her work is in a wide range private and public collections.
Artist and architect Ri Williamson has written a text to accompany Marie's exhibition. Please contact us if you would like a copy of this text.
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 | Marie Le Lievre Bull Truth (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Fix Bag (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Charm Lore (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, inkjet print, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre South Sayer (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, inkjet print, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Amongst (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, ink, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Jungle (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, inkjet print, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Play Again (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre God Between My Breasts (Panel), 2016 oil, graphite, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Leaving (Panel) Always Want To, 2016 oil, graphite, inkjet print, gesso on wood panel, 600 x 600 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Perfume (Table), 2016 oil on canvas, 500 x 500 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Bulletproof (Paraphernalia), 2016 oil and graphite on canvas, 1800 x 1650 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Falling (Rosa), 2016 oil on canvas, 1800 x 1650 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Cosmetic (Paraphernalia), 2016 oil, graphite, gesso on canvas, 800 x 800 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Aesthetic (Paraphernalia), 2016 oil, graphite, gesso on canvas, 800 x 800 mm |
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 | Marie Le Lievre Damage Control (Paraphernalia), 2016 oil, graphite, ink, gesso on cardboard, 740 x 740 mm |
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