Stephen Marr

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Stephen Marr (* 1952 in Maclean , New South Wales , Australia ) is an Australian sculptor . He also worked as an art director and set designer in productions for film and television .

life and work

Stephen Marr grew up in the small Australian coastal town of Yamba in New South Wales (NSW). Between 1971 and 1975 he received an artistic education in Newcastle , which he completed with a National Art School Diploma . In 1977 he designed and built a house for the first time near his birthplace in Tullimorgan. At the Technical College of Grafton , he worked in 1978 as a ceramics teacher . In 1979 he designed and built a second home on Palmer's Island, which is also close to his birthplace; the following year he founded a pottery here. In 1981 he spent here painting, drawing and making pottery. The following year he moved to Sydney , where he exhibited some of his work at the Oxford Gallery in Paddington .

In 1983 Stephen Marr was assistant art director on the creation of the Winners Children's Series for Australian television. In 1984 he worked on art productions for film and television, a year later he took over the artistic direction of the Australian soap opera series Return to Eden as art director . In 1986 he was responsible for the production design for the Australian film Young Einstein ; in the following year he worked as a freelance set designer in other productions. Marr ran the Machine Age arts institution for film and production design in the United States and Australia from 1988 to 1991 . In 1991 he directed television commercials in the United States and internationally between 1992 and 2003.

In the 1990s he designed and built a third house, this time on Sydney's Newport Beach . Here in Newport the artist showed some of his paintings and sculptures in his first solo exhibition. Further solo exhibitions followed in Manly , in 2003 in the Raglan Gallery and in 2004 in the Gallery Oceanic Phantascope . The Wallspace Gallery of Surry Hills also dedicated solo exhibitions to him with the titles Listening to Cicadas (2006) and On a Wing and a Prayer (2007).

In 2008, Marr participated with The Drifter for the first time in the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition, Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney. The following year he showed his work The Crossroads here . At this annual event in Sydney he was also represented again in 2011 with The Golden Buddha's Seaside Holiday , 2012 with The Optimist , 2014 with That Tranquil Moment and 2017 with Under One Sky , as well as at the following exhibitions Sculpture Inside in Cottesloe ( District of Perth in Western Australia ). Other of his works had titles such as

  • Singing All The Way To The sea
  • Spirits
  • The jury
  • A New Morning
  • The Herald
  • Sanctuary
  • Finger to Adversity
  • Joy ride
  • Priorities
  • Thinking It Up
  • You! Yes, you
  • Practicing the Art of Smiling While Putting Fear Behind Me

Stephen Marrs tries with his figurative sculpture "to create a feeling of presence and character". Recurring motifs are people, birds and clouds and the symbolic freedoms they embody. Many of his works are conceived as multimedia, in which, for example, he combines carving with oil painting or in which he extends paintings from two to three dimensions.

Marr sees his group of figures Under One Sky as “a fusion of painting, sculpture and storytelling. In this era of global conflict, I have created a work of goodwill. Two people greet each other in a hug that bridges race, creed and nationality. "

Awards (selection)

Stephen Marr received the following awards:

  • 2012 - Glover Prize , Tasmania (TAS)
  • 2011 - Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize , South Australian Museum , Adelaide , South Australia (SA; shortlisted, with honorable mention [ highly commended ]); Glover Prize , TAS; Hobart City Art Prize , TAS
  • 2010 - Kedumba Drawing Prize , NSW ( by invitation ); Glover Prize , TAS
  • 2009 - Paddington Art Prize , NSW; Glover Prize , TAS
  • 2008 - Fleurieu Art Prize , SA; Glover Prize , TAS
  • 2007 - Willoughby Art Prize , NSW (finalist with The Case Of The Homesick Cocky ); Paddington Art Prize , NSW (winner); King's School Art Prize , NSW (winner); Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize , South Australian Museum, SA (shortlisted, Honorable Mention)
  • 2006 - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize , Mitchell Library, part of the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (shortlisted)
  • 2005 - Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés , Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney, NSW (finalist)

Web links

Commons : Stephen Marr  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is 'Sculpture be the Sea'? In: sculpturebythesea.com
  2. ↑ a b Kat Adamski: Two northern beaches have work on display in Sculptures by the Sea. In: The Daily Telegraph, October 23, 2014.
  3. ^ Sculpture by the Sea 2010 in Sydney: outdoor art exhibition on a beach in Australia . In: The Daily Telegraph, 2010.
  4. ^ Sculpture by the Sea 2011 in Sydney: outdoor art exhibition on a beach in Australia. In: The Daily Telegraph, 2011.
  5. ↑ Tamarama, Sculpture By The Sea. , sydney-city.com.au, November 3, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b Sculpture by the Sea 2017: coastal artworks go on show - in pictures . In: The Guardian , Australian Edition of October 19, 2017. Original text: “A fusion of painting, sculpture and storytelling. In this era of global conflict, I have created a work of goodwill. Two people greet in an embrace bridging race, creed and nationality. "
  7. ↑ Biography Stephen Marr . In: stephenmarr.com
  8. ↑ Stephen Marr . In: Pittwater Online News, Issue 65, July 1, 2012
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Stephen Marr . In: raglangallery.com.au
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Stephen Marr . In: maunsellwickes.com
  11. ↑ Stephen Marr . In: mickfineart.com
personal data
SURNAME Marr, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Maclean , New South Wales , Australia