Meredith Marsone

Meredith Marsone is a professional artist from New Zealand who has an extensive international exhibition history. Establishing herself as a contemporary figurative painter with a unique and distinctive style Marsone’s work is held in numerous private and notable collections.

Her work is part of a new international movement of painting termed ‘disrupted realism’ which explores methods of combining realism and abstraction. She features in the book Disrupted Realism by John Seed along with 37 other artists from around the world. She uses this technique to communicate the subtle emotional qualities in the human experience allowing the viewer to access their own emotional state in response to the work. Her aesthetic combines exquisitely rendered figures with gesturally applied thicker layers of paint. On a conceptual level the abstraction contributes to the emotive quality of the painting whilst also having an underlying meaning for the artist.

“I use this technique, which has a way of uniting either the characters in my paintings, or the figure to the surroundings, as a way of visually communicating the spiritual concept of ‘oneness’, that our bodies that seem like our outer most edges are in fact an illusion and we are connected to ...

Post graduate diploma in Māori Visual Art 2021
Bachelor of Arts - painting 1997

22 solo shows including in New Zealand, Australia and the US
50+ group shows around the world