Marce king
Marce is a portrait and figurative artist based in Australia. Marce's art career has spanned 20 years with multiple solo and group exhibitions in that time.
MessageB. 1978, Kilmore, Victoria - Australia
Marce is a portrait and figurative artist based in Australia.
In their work, Marce currently utilizes drawing and painting mediums, however, they are also passionate about printmaking, majoring in Lithography at University.
Marce's first Solo Exhibition was in 2006 at Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne, Victoria. Marce has gone on to have multiple solo shows in Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Sydney and New York and has also participated in many group shows in Australia, Europe and online.
Marce obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from Latrobe University, graduating with distinction and winning the graduate award at the end of their degree. The graduate award was a scholarship that allowed them to travel through Europe creating art and exploring the world for a number of years. This experience had a profound influence on their practice and cemented their love of art and their chosen subject matter of the human form.
Marce's most recent and influential exhibitions:
May 2023 - The Other Art Fair, Sydney
September 2022 - Superfine Art Fair, New York City
Marce looks forward to returning to NY in 2024
Statement
I have felt deeply connected to my chosen subject of the human form since early high school. Although my styles and mediums vary depending on the projects I'm working on, the central focus is always the physicality and emotions of people. Using the human form to tell my stories and the story of others.
My style and mediums are mood and subject based and as such can vary, but what remains is expression through mark making. I enjoy drawing true likeness of the human form, but I also really love and strive to bring out all the emotional complexities that comes from being human.
I make conscious decisions when creating, whether to include color or not. In the moments where color is added, those colors are chosen to add depth, complexity and meaning to the piece. In some of my most recent pieces, the colors used are symbolic of queer pride flags or colors that are stereotypically masculine and feminine e.g. pink and blue.
A strong aspect of my current artwork is exploring the lives of the LGBTIQ+ people and related communities. I strive to express the experiences, lives, and the emotional aspect of their personal journeys. I am Transgender and nonbinary so my art also reflects my own personal experience. My work expresses and challenges gender, identity, belonging, and the social constructs around binary identification.
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