“…..This land is known as la pianura — the lowlands — a flat landscape shaped over centuries by an intricate network of canals built to drain marshland and irrigate the surrounding fields…..” read more on the link below.
https://australiangalleries.com.au/collections/bologna-and-the-lowlands
”In 2025, I returned to Italy for the first time in nearly twenty years. My family comes from Ravenna in Emilia–Romagna, and my father and grandparents are from the small village of Granarolo Faentino. While I was there, a local historian traced my family back to the 1700s—and that was only at first glance…”
https://www.janmurphygallery.com.au/exhibition/water-and-stone/
Read MoreClick the link below to see a short video of me at home and in my studio preparing for Water and Stone…
In March 2025, Marina Strocchi started work on a 21 metre mural in Granarolo Faentino, Ravenna, Italy which is the village of her grandparents and her father. The theme of the mural is the canal, which was the centre of village life for hundreds of years. The mural was finished on 19 April, 2025. Hear Marina speak in rusty Italian for a segment on SKY News Italia item while the work was in progress. disclaimer: I am not a Murdoch fan but the news team were human.
Click here for the interview.
In March 2025, Marina Strocchi started work on a 21 metre mural in Granarolo Faentino, Ravenna, Italy which is the village of her grandparents and her father. The theme of the mural is the canal, which was the centre of village life for hundreds of years. The mural was finished on 19 April, 2025. Hear Marina speak in rusty Italian for the RAI news item while the work was in progress.
Click here for the article, the video and text are in Italian.
https://artistprofile.com.au/marina-strocchi/
Click here and read what Artist Profile had to say about my latest series.
25 February, 2021 Talking about my time spent in New York and the development of the exhibition New York, New Work currently on at Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs. Finishes March 7, 2021.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/alicesprings-mornings/marina/12927630
Click here and listen to me being interviewed by Nicole Lee for ABC Mornings in Alice Springs.
Opening on Saturday November 21, 2020 at 10.30am with a floor talk.
This work on paper was inspired by a visit to Kangaroo Valley in NSW. The towering escarpment is one of seven enclosed escarpments in the world. It is as if the gods have made their own dry stone wall. The light hits one side in the morning and the other side in the evening. Towering, majestic and breathtakingly beautiful.
The Escarpment KV V
2018
acylic on hand made Indian rag paper, framed
60 x 80 cm
ABC Alice Springs interview about the Family Connections presentation at The Residency 16 th July, 2020
June 23 - July 31, 2020
Artist talk Thursday July 16, 2020 at 6 pm
Linework V, 2020, Acrylic on hand made recycled paper on marine ply, 60 x 80 cm
Online
July 3 - July 17, 2020
Upper East Side by night, 2020, Acrylic on paper, 30.3 x 45.5 cm
I delivered some painting and drawing workshops in February, 2020. Many thanks to Tangentyere Artists and the 2019 Arts NT Fellowship.
Desert Aboriginal art centres adapt to the pandemic.
I delivered some painting workshops in March, 2020. Many thanks to Yarrenyty Arltere Artists and the 2019 Arts NT Fellowship.
“What we see in our country” Yarrenyty Arltere 20 years on….
Marina speaks to us from her studio in Alice Springs, sharing the work she created during her residency in Brooklyn, NY, in 2019, and sending a message to friends and family afar while the globe is in lockdown. Works will be available from Jan Murphy Gallery late May, 2020.
Marina talks about her entry into the 2020 Alice Prize, Blue Drawing II, exhibited at Araluen in Alice Springs.
This video was shot in April 2020 in Alice Springs.
Blue Drawing II
2018
Acrylic on linen
122 x 137 cm
“REDOT FINE ART GALLERY is honoured to present a very special online exhibition for the very talented Alice Springs based artist, Marina Strocchi. Draw the line is a collection of recent works by one of the galleries most important non-Indigenous artists. Strocchi studied art in Melbourne (1979-82) and spent time in the milieu of the ROAR studios in the early 1980s. She then had a two-year sojourn in Europe (mainly Paris), before returning to Melbourne to commence her social practice as an artist. She found herself in central Australia in January 1992. It was there that she began her first series of landscape paintings and returned to live at Haasts Bluff in August of that year. During the 1990s she worked closely with many of the Aboriginal artists who made central Australian desert art so well known in Australia and all over the world. Since 2015, her work has grown in ambition while subjects initially becoming more domestic and internally focused and she is now one of Australia’s brightest talents.”
Exhibition is running from the 7th January - 2nd March 2020
Terra Firma solo exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 2019
