Blue Jo

This painting was created around the same time I was painting my entry piece for the 2019 Achibald Prize of Australian Actress and childhood friend Jolene Anderson. I had a few different portraits of her on the go at the same time. This painting was one of them and came about from one of the reference photo I had taken. Her eyes and the bone structure of her cheek bone in the image inspired the painting which has a haunting quality and something I have always be drawn to and like to depict. The materials I used were oils paints, charcoal on linen which is where I feel most comfortable and true to my practice.

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Born in 1980 in the Macleay Valley Region, Marchment is a disabled Australian artist based in Crescent Head, NSW. Her practice focuses on painting and mixed media, primarily using oils to create portraiture and figurative works. Inspired by her surroundings, she captures the connection between people and their environment, aiming to evoke emotional responses through her art. She is exploring themes of Inaccessibility and discrimination within the disability community. Marchment is currently creating a body of work showcasing simplicity and abstraction that is being informed by her own mobility challenges. Through her work Marchment aspires to ignite meaningful questions and foster conversations that resonate powerfully with viewers, inspiring them to reflect and engage.

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