Marynes Avila
- All day Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March
Artist bio:
Marynes Avila is an Argentinean born, Melbourne based, multidisciplinary artist concerned with a socially-engaged practice. She creates work that specifically responds to site and community by implementing the use of multiples as “data connectors”. Working at the intersection of art and science, Avilas’ multiples are an allegory for the relationship between the individual, the group, and their interaction with the natural world.
Taking inspiration from the wonders of nature and its forms, Avila utilises repetition to redefine the object and its symbolism, offering an inquisitive platform to often question the consequences of human imprint in the age of the Anthropocene.
Meticulous drawing, microphotography, micrographic digital video, and digital photography are central to the artist’s process and an essential component of Avila's oeuvre, being the catalyst for the artist's large-scale installations.
Originally obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Education/Creative Dance from UAI University, Bs As, Argentina, Avila went on to be awarded a Masters of Arts - Art in Public Space from RMIT University in 2008.
Avila has exhibited widely throughout Australia and overseas, holding 16 solo shows, participating in over 57 group exhibitions and completing numerous national public art commissions as well as delivering public art installations around the world.
She has been the recipient of many national art awards and grants such as the 2020 Architects for Peace Interventionist Award, the Overall Winner at the 2018 Toorak Traders Association Sculpture Awards, the Moreland Art Show Ephemeral Art Award, and the Overall Prize Winner at the 2016 City of Knox’s Immerse Award. Avila has also been a finalist in numerous high profile sculpture award exhibitions including the McClelland Sculpture Park & Gallery Senini Art Award; the Yering Station Sculpture Award and the Montalto Sculpture Prize among others.
Avila has been awarded numerous prestigious national and international residencies and her work is included in public and private collections in Australia and abroad.
