Mariette Perrinjaquet
: Painter, Sculptor, Illustrator, Graphic Artist
Artist's statement:
Welling from one source,
my work flows in two distinct streams.
1941 Born in the French speaking
region of Switzerland
1957-61 Studied Fine Arts,
Ecole Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1961 Arrived in Australia.
1971 Teacher's Certificate.
Hawthorn Teacher's College.
1972-83 Art & Craft
Teacher in Victorian Schools.
1977-95 Held 5 solo exhibitions
and produced several commissioned works.
A long standing member of
the Women's Art Register, Mariette has exhibited with the Association of
Sculptors of Victoria. the
Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors, Gallery Without
Walls and has been involved in numerous exhibitions.
Her concerns for environmental,
anti-nuclear & women's issues find direct expression in graphic work,
cartoons and posters. Her main objective is the removal of barriers erected
by fear.
Graphics/
Illustrations.
These are the response of
a rural dweller to the modern polluted city and the ravaging of the earth,
seas, forests and air for profit. Outrage is also my response to militarism,
nuclear weapons and the waste of human life and love in warfare. Most illustrations
were commissioned for publications of the Department of Conservation &
Environment of the Victorian Labor Government and the Healthsharing Women's
Health Resource Service. The works for the former are more lyrical and
some are humorous. The latter are inspired by compassion for women with
health problems. I hope to awaken and challenge the viewers to a greater
awareness of all these issues, to help them emerge from their entrapment
and to inspire them with hope. My tools are metaphors, symbols, irony and
whimsy.
"Viewed side by side, these two streams
of work are intended to fortify and lend greater meaning to each other."Commentary
by Anna Muir
Exhibition 2002 [photograph
ER]
Sculptures .
Fascinated by the naked beauty of the Australian bush, the dead "castoffs"
of the trees, I set up to weave them into semi-abstract and abstract compositions,
bringing a second life to the stark skeleton forms. In those works the
feeling of imminent flight. musical harmony and lightness is paramount.
The Sculptures reflect the forms, colours. harmony and rhythms of nature,
which inspired them. They are meant to "sing" rather than to "speak for
themselves.
Solo Exhibitions 1977
La Trattoria Gallery North Fitzroy
1983 Piaf Gallery Hawthorn.
1988 Gallery Without Walls,
Box Hill North.
1994 Box Hill Community
Arts Centre.
1995 Puffinry Gallery Sherbrooke.
Group Exhibitions
1962 Eastside Gallery. East
Melbourne
1983-86 Caulfield Art Centre.
1984 Visibility Gallery
North Carlton. Peach Gallery Hawthorn.
1985-86 Waverley City Gallery
1985-86-87 Association of
Sculptors of Victoria. National Australia Bank
1985-88 MSWPS Victorian
Artists' Society Galleries. East Melbourne Waverley Civic Centre. Nunawading
Arts Centre.
1989 MSWPS The Women's Gallery
Fitzroy. Association of Sculptors of Victoria Rialto Plaza Melbourne.
1991 MSWPS. OLA COHN Center,
East Melbourne.
1992 Lindengate Gallery
Yarra Glen. Arts Access Gallery Melbourne South. MSWPS. AMP Square. Melbourne.
1993 Heidelberg Theatre
Gallery
1994 Tintern Anglican Grammar
School Latrobe University Abbotsford Arts Post Gallery Ballarat Gallery
Without WalIs Glen Iris MSWPS Victorian Artists Society Galleries, East
Melbourne.
1995 Mornington Peninsula
Arts Centre. The Royal Women's Hospital Carlton. 1996 Heidelberg theatre
Gallery City Arts Public Space. 550 Bourke Street Melbourne.
1997 Puffinry Gallery Sherbrooke
Reserve Bank Melbourne.
