Karla Marchesi

Gold rush: Berlin-based artist scoops Rocky prize Karla Marchesi’s colourful floral painting style has just won her Queensland’s richest painting prize. Berlin-based Brisbane artist Karla Marchesi has just won Rockhampton Museum of Art’s $50,000 Gold Award. Photo: Dale Grant It is hard to comprehend the impact a major prize can have on an artist. Karla…

Congratulations to Karla Marchesi who has been awarded the 2026 Gold Award for her painting ‘Wasted waiting’ at the Rockhampton Museum of Art. Now in its seventh iteration, the biennial Gold Award remains the richest painting prize in Queensland, offering a $50,000 acquisitive award. Named in honour of the late Rockhampton philanthropist Moya Gold, the…

Nicholas Thompson Gallery, until October 21 Within the tremendous visual power of her flora paintings, their vivacity and particularity, Karla Marchesi gives us nature in all its beauty and potential monstrosity. Across 14 oil paintings, the Berlin-based, Brisbane-born artist has created still life floral scenes that have the uncanny shock of a dream. They are…

Karla Marchesi is a finalist in the 2023 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery Held every two years, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize attracts some of Australia’s most accomplished artists. The Prize provides Bendigo Art Gallery with the opportunity to survey a breadth of contemporary painting by established and emerging artists…

PROCESS: Karla Marchesi It’s funny that there is a psychological divorce as soon as my paintings leave the studio. My mind is already bubbling with beginnings of what to make next; what will follow from what came before. I’ve long held the view: work begets work – through the practice itself is where meaning resides.…

. Karla Marchesi is profiled in the current issue of VAULT magazine, feature by Louise Martin-Chew . “Living in Berlin, and approaching the age of 40, Karla Marchesi has found a strong female voice and the gift of time, fuelled by painterly liberation and a gutsy libido. Her new works exploit scale, humour and conceptual…

Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery, Queensland Image: Karla Marchesi ‘The Crane Wife’ 2022 Oil on linen 180 x 150cm  

Karla Marchesi ‘Wings of Desire’ 2018 oil on linen 160 x 145 cm⁣ Exhibition current 14 September to 8 December 2019⁣

LINK TO PRIZE BELOW: http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/prizes_scholarships/arthur_guy_memorial_painting_prize

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