Margaret Norris
Painter (Dural, NSW)

Margaret is an Alumnus of London University of the Arts, and graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Arts campus in 1999 with a BA (Hons.) degree in Fine Arts. After several years living and working abroad, she returned home to Australia in 2000 and now lives in Sydney, Australia.

Her abstract paintings are based on natural phenomena: Landscape, cellular structure & microcosmic images. Margaret’s interest lies in macroscopic versus microscopic duality. Her paintings use light & colour to enhance natural structures from the world around us, sometimes viewed and enhanced through electron microscopy. The scale of such cellular activity is magnified to massive proportions in order that the final paintings can measure up to two metres squared. The activity then becomes intensely dramatic in colour and gesture, the forms cascade through their picture planes which remain flat and yet all encompassing, reminiscent of colour field painting.

Alongside her paintings, Margaret makes photograms (unique photographic images with no camera or negative involved). When at University she researched the visual effects created by growing micro-organisms on photographic paper. The treated paper is used to grow the microbes in the same way as a petri dish containing nutrients is used in laboratories to develop cultures. These photograms form beautiful works in their own right as well as providing the source material and inception of larger painted works.

Her works are held in Private Collections in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States.

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Selected solo & group exhibitions:

Current
2009 Solo Exhibition, Marie-France Salon & Gallery, West Pymble, NSW
2009 Solo Exhibition, “Bar Amalfi”, Ramsgate Beach, NSW

Recent & Other
2009 Northern Expressions Group Exhibition, Parliament House, Sydney
2009 55th Annual Hunter’s Hill Art Exhibition, NSW
2006 - 2008 Northern Expressions Group Exhibitions, NSW
2004 - 2009 Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society Group Exhibitions, NSW
2007 Arcadian Artists Open Studio Weekend, Galston, NSW
2003 Finalist, 52nd Blake Prize, Sydney
2003 TAP Gallery, “Real Refusés”, Sydney
2003 TAP Gallery, Group Exhibition, Sydney
2003 49th Annual Hunter’s Hill Art Exhibition, NSW
2001 Solo Exhibition, Alta Gallery, Sydney
2000 Solo Exhibition, Zella Gallery, London, UK
1999 Fenton Art Trust, Recent Graduates, London, UK
1999 Degree Graduation Show Byam Shaw School of Art - University of the Arts London, UK
1999 Chelsea Art Society Open Exhibition, London
1999 Group show Concourse Gallery, Archway, London, UK
1999 “Halfway to Highgate”, Waterlow Park, London
1998 Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
1998 Chelsea Art Society, Open Exhibition, Chelsea, London, UK
1997 “Gone”, Concourse Gallery, London, UK
1996 Graduation Show, Art & Design Certificate, City Literary Institute, London, UK
1995 Group show, City Literary Institute, Fleet Street, London, UK
1991 - 1992 Annual exhibitions, Ku-Ring-Gai Art Gallery, Roseville NSW
1989 - 1990 Ku-Ring-Gai Art Gallery, Roseville, NSW
1987 - 1988 Irving Art Society Group Exhibitions, Dallas, Texas, USA
1986 Narrabri Open Art Exhibition, Narrabri, NSW

Memberships
Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society
Northern Expressions Artist Collective