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Cave Ararat Painting

Marianna Magurudumian-O'Reilly

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 15.7 W x 23.6 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This work has been inspired by recovering memories of my childhood via landscape painting and observation in my new home in Spain. I feel a strong connection to my Armenian roots via this landscape. My first and powerful memory was of a landscape in Armenia when my parents took me there at the age of 5. I wanted to incorporate the famous Cave Ararat stone relief sculpture from Turkey which I have recently discovered online looking through armenian word search. This work is a part of a series of 4 paintings where I was exploring intuitive practices of art making, I use surrealist techniques of liberation of the unconscious through random mark making, and developing visual collages with hybrid characters set in imaginary architectural and psychological spaces. Each mark or bump on the canvas offers a possibility of excavation, unearthing layers of meaning and memories that are formed and fade in their detail with time, merging together, creating their own fantasms and distortions. I also used the remnants of the previous day pallete ( when dry, acrylic paint comes off the palette in skin-like form), creating abstracted islands that I attached to the painting. This gives me an opportunity to add a relief to my work as another type of language to highlight the transparent layers of the rest of the painting. The painting is made on primed canvas with artist quality Liquitex acrylic paint. It has been sealed with a protective, specialised matt varnish.

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Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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15.7 W x 23.6 H x 1 D in

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Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly is a multidisciplinary artist whose current practice encompasses a variety of artistic expressions from textile art, mask making and costume design, video and sound experiments, painting and drawing. Each of these practices informs the others, cross pollinating, offering new areas for exploration. Interested in intuitive practices in art making, she is using surrealist techniques of liberation of the subconscious through random mark making, and developing collages with hybrid characters set in imaginary architectural and psychological spaces. In June, 2024 she had her first solo show in Spain ‘Studio Grotesque’ at the Museu de l’Ebre in Totrosa. Marianna studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Russia. Having moved to the UK, she received a First Class Honors Bachelor degree from Brighton University, UK, after which she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from The Royal Academy of Arts in London. She has won numerous awards and scholarships for painting, notably Winsor and Newton Young artist Award (3 consecutive years), Wingate Scholarship (Wingate Foundation, UK), Red Mansion Art Prize (The London Institute, UK) and has exhibited internationally. Her paintings are in the collections of Unilever HQ, London (UK) and Eurostar Art Collection, London HQ (UK). Working across media, she has made sound compositions and experimental web design, collaborating with her husband Daniel on independent films as actress, script writer, editor, and sound designer, and earned various film and video festival participations notably at Whitechapel Gallery, Frieze Art Fair Projects (UK), Leeds University (UK),. Her collaborative project The Unstitute , is an art laboratory, independent online art gallery, and experimental digital architecture.

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