https://marinarolfe.com Marina Rolfe Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:09:27 +0000 https://marinarolfe.com en https://marinarolfe.com/2026 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:09:27 +0000 Marina Rolfe https://marinarolfe.com/2026 The edge of holding 15 April - 23 May 2026ARC ONE Gallery <img width="2460" height="1800" width_o="2460" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f40ecb2e1114c43b1c244ca18318824319b9c62095d09f44102d9ab27016dbb/With-the-early-mist-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="247577693" border="0" alt="&ldquo;With the early mist&rdquo;, 110cm x 86.5cm, oil on linen, 2026" data-caption="“With the early mist”, 110cm x 86.5cm, oil on linen, 2026" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f40ecb2e1114c43b1c244ca18318824319b9c62095d09f44102d9ab27016dbb/With-the-early-mist-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="2460" height="1800" width_o="2460" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb359626e9da92506355e08dda69087fc588697f9980e34293db64f2119d4ef7/Nourished--each-winter-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="247577657" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Nourished, each winter&rdquo;, 108cm x 82cm, oil on linen, 2026" data-caption="“Nourished, each winter”, 108cm x 82cm, oil on linen, 2026" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb359626e9da92506355e08dda69087fc588697f9980e34293db64f2119d4ef7/Nourished--each-winter-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="2719" height="2021" width_o="2719" height_o="2021" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2b182852943d62e58c794349515f7d3d77ca3e1be96391bf82221961cd10dba/From-afar-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="247578019" border="0" alt="&ldquo;From afar&rdquo;, 81 x 102cm, oil on linen, 2026" data-caption="“From afar”, 81 x 102cm, oil on linen, 2026" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2b182852943d62e58c794349515f7d3d77ca3e1be96391bf82221961cd10dba/From-afar-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="2460" height="1800" width_o="2460" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e87e7c084380c55060feba90b3153ef8915e0207d06484c37613a424b3e17a2/Watching-the-unfolding-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="249043266" border="0" alt="&quot;Watching the unfolding&quot;, 86.5 x 97 cm, oil on linen, 2026" data-caption="&quot;Watching the unfolding&quot;, 86.5 x 97 cm, oil on linen, 2026" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e87e7c084380c55060feba90b3153ef8915e0207d06484c37613a424b3e17a2/Watching-the-unfolding-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="2460" height="1800" width_o="2460" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/366778977a3c4e66ddf23655ff34b3fc3833ba07338892bd0d90433f38c57a2e/And-wandering-through-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="247577718" border="0" alt="&ldquo;And wandering through&rdquo;, 122 x 152.5cm, oil on linen, 2026" data-caption="“And wandering through”, 122 x 152.5cm, oil on linen, 2026" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/366778977a3c4e66ddf23655ff34b3fc3833ba07338892bd0d90433f38c57a2e/And-wandering-through-Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="2460" height="1800" width_o="2460" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f255502a7b90a2288a337c963a021d4740b3be39fd3d137cf53ec4fc4dca82b4/Turning--with-every-tide.jpg" data-mid="249043212" border="0" alt="&quot;Turning with every tide&quot;, 122 x 152.5cm, oil on linen, 2026" data-caption="&quot;Turning with every tide&quot;, 122 x 152.5cm, oil on linen, 2026" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f255502a7b90a2288a337c963a021d4740b3be39fd3d137cf53ec4fc4dca82b4/Turning--with-every-tide.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="3375" width_o="4500" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cab25c49b1869b1b47038e146f77b51ec331dfc84261b0bc18bba5cb01e64325/Solo-show-F-16.jpg" data-mid="247578115" border="0" alt="Installation shots: The edge of holding, ARC ONE, 2026. Photos by Simon Strong" data-caption="Installation shots: The edge of holding, ARC ONE, 2026. Photos by Simon Strong" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cab25c49b1869b1b47038e146f77b51ec331dfc84261b0bc18bba5cb01e64325/Solo-show-F-16.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="3375" width_o="4500" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f371ce1c11836404da5acbd8ac5f4534ffb1438998d91eba8292fcc8cf032ba5/Solo-show-F-17.jpg" data-mid="247578116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f371ce1c11836404da5acbd8ac5f4534ffb1438998d91eba8292fcc8cf032ba5/Solo-show-F-17.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="2999" width_o="4500" height_o="2999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/801e25bd9c92e012209cf68c4c9aedeef781823203b16b5be712265960b284e7/Solo-show-F-13.jpg" data-mid="247578112" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/801e25bd9c92e012209cf68c4c9aedeef781823203b16b5be712265960b284e7/Solo-show-F-13.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="3000" width_o="4500" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b1adb4bb2839525f012c6c8d10f048edc8d648d2fba8aa751a1da305e0e8d07/Solo-show-F-14.jpg" data-mid="247578113" border="0" alt="Installation shots: The edge of holding, ARC ONE, 2026. Photos by Simon Strong" data-caption="Installation shots: The edge of holding, ARC ONE, 2026. Photos by Simon Strong" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b1adb4bb2839525f012c6c8d10f048edc8d648d2fba8aa751a1da305e0e8d07/Solo-show-F-14.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="3375" width_o="4500" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf8cd8b3b7a3769b4e74cf29996360a2a75584af8729ec7d6b2cfb0d877e4ac7/Solo-show-F-15.jpg" data-mid="247578114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf8cd8b3b7a3769b4e74cf29996360a2a75584af8729ec7d6b2cfb0d877e4ac7/Solo-show-F-15.jpg" /> &nbsp; Painting is often understood as a cumulative act: the gradual construction of form through successive marks. In Marina Rolfe’s recent work, however, painting unfolds as both accumulation and undoing. Layers are built only to be partially withdrawn, redirected, or held in suspension. The surface does not resolve through completion so much as arrive at a point where further action would destabilise what has already been established. The paintings settle into a state of holding—less a conclusion than a condition maintained. Rolfe’s process is frequently described as intuitive, but this intuition is a sustained negotiation with these material behaviours. Oil paint, in particular, determines the terms of this exchange. Its viscosity allows colours to meet without fully integrating; edges soften or are clarified depending on pressure, timing, and repetition. A brush might carry one colour into another, producing combinations that are neither fully controlled nor entirely accidental. The work develops through these incremental decisions, where control is exercised not through imposition but through attention—knowing when to extend a mark and when to hold it in place. Each mark adjusts what the next can do. A colour is introduced and then thinned back; a line asserts itself only to be partially absorbed. Earlier works by Rolfe positioned the viewer as a kind of reader, locating figures or landscapes within dense, shifting fields across each canvas. Recognition operated as a provisional activity— forms appeared, then receded. In these new paintings, this dynamic is less pronounced. While nature remains an important point of reference, it is no longer something to be identified within the image. Instead, it functions as a set of conditions: variability, movement, and the uneven distribution of attention. The paintings do not present images to be deciphered so much as surfaces structured by these relations. Developed over a year-long period, these works have been made slowly, with each painting existing in relation to others. Rolfe describes them as akin to “different poems” within a single collection— different, but not entirely separate. This is less a matter of thematic unity than of shared constraint. Each work tests what can be sustained within a given set of constraints—how far a colour relationship can be extended, how much disruption a composition can absorb. The series works as a field in which these problems are rehearsed and recalibrated, rather than resolved. Resolution itself is treated as a limit condition. As Rolfe notes, “I don’t like rules.” For her, a painting is finished not when it reaches a state of completeness, but when further intervention is no longer possible without undoing its internal logic. She continues, “If I can’t add anything else to it, I can’t participate in the making process of it.” What is at stake here is not the relinquishing of control, but its redistribution. Control shifts from the imposition of form to the recognition that the work has established its own terms. This produces a sustained tension between adding and withholding. Each brushstroke functions as a decision that alters how each painting unfolds. The risk of excess—of pushing the work beyond its capacity to hold together—remains constant. Equally, there is the risk of withdrawal, of stopping short of what the painting requires. The work proceeds through this oscillation. Even as the paintings approach abstraction, they retain a minimal spatial orientation, preventing a full collapse into indeterminacy. Something is always held in place. Colour operates as the primary structuring force within this process. It does not describe form but constitutes it. Rolfe’s engagement with colour is both deliberate and contingent—sensitive to how hues interact, resist, or destabilise one another. These interactions in oil paint are not fully predictable. Each painting develops through a series of responses to these moments, rather than through the execution of a fixed plan. What emerges across Rolfe’s paintings is a sustained engagement with the limits of intervention. The paintings are not sites of unrestricted expression, but of constraint—where each decision carries the potential to both extend and destabilise the work. Holding, in this context, is not a passive state. It is an active maintenance of relations: between colours that do not fully resolve, between marks that risk excess, between forms as they emerge and their possible collapse. To encounter these paintings is to register the accumulation of decisions. They do not present themselves as resolved images, but as surfaces in which each element remains dependent on what surrounds it. The viewer is not positioned to decode or complete the work, but to follow the terms under which it has been made. What becomes visible is not simply a composition, but a process of calibration, testing what can be sustained and where the work must stop.Exhibition essay by Chelsea Hopper.Memo Review by Clare Fuery-Jones https://marinarolfe.com/2025 Tue, 03 May 2022 09:09:17 +0000 Marina Rolfe https://marinarolfe.com/2025 <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e9e88012396095f901d90143c6e327c9fd2ae60bc403aaf6d2eeb2f61936ef9/Marina-Rolfe-MAF-2025-2.jpg" data-mid="228579661" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="'Rising with the morning's pale mist&quot;, 152.5cm x 182cm, oil on linen, Melbourne Art Fair, 2025" data-caption="'Rising with the morning's pale mist&quot;, 152.5cm x 182cm, oil on linen, Melbourne Art Fair, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e9e88012396095f901d90143c6e327c9fd2ae60bc403aaf6d2eeb2f61936ef9/Marina-Rolfe-MAF-2025-2.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1647" width_o="2500" height_o="1647" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4898e0fc54fdae64e42941184e1d0ddf9311333447692293abb306629b9b020/Arc-One-SydContemporary--250909_DSC5984-edit-2.jpg" data-mid="239859243" border="0" alt="Sydney Contemporary, 2025" data-caption="Sydney Contemporary, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4898e0fc54fdae64e42941184e1d0ddf9311333447692293abb306629b9b020/Arc-One-SydContemporary--250909_DSC5984-edit-2.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f33a33245f2df044727d63a9ea063bbef5c15befdaa6037116cfc153c712e6b7/Arc-One-SydContemporary--250909_DSC5989-edit-1.jpg" data-mid="239859242" border="0" alt="Sydney Contemporary, 2025" data-caption="Sydney Contemporary, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f33a33245f2df044727d63a9ea063bbef5c15befdaa6037116cfc153c712e6b7/Arc-One-SydContemporary--250909_DSC5989-edit-1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7e6f90a75da5dfa5c5699faa28e762ac1a498a208e8f8c3495e45441162850d/Marina-Rolfe-MAF-2025.jpg" data-mid="228579528" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="&ldquo;Sunlight pries insistently&rdquo;, oil on linen, 152cm x 198cm, Melbourne Art Fair, 2025" data-caption="“Sunlight pries insistently”, oil on linen, 152cm x 198cm, Melbourne Art Fair, 2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7e6f90a75da5dfa5c5699faa28e762ac1a498a208e8f8c3495e45441162850d/Marina-Rolfe-MAF-2025.jpg" /> &nbsp; https://marinarolfe.com/2024 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:31:02 +0000 Marina Rolfe https://marinarolfe.com/2024 <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af3f16f24108f8d6f75b0c143633024cf0ded3b8e35b80f6fd1f7feb87741825/Install-1a.jpg" data-mid="217182103" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af3f16f24108f8d6f75b0c143633024cf0ded3b8e35b80f6fd1f7feb87741825/Install-1a.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f237a4ea9a380c4296b45509a924a2b8bc1c5a0827b03eaa01456913581e6716/Instal-2b.jpg" data-mid="217182121" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f237a4ea9a380c4296b45509a924a2b8bc1c5a0827b03eaa01456913581e6716/Instal-2b.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aabfca764c888dc1041afe1cd0af20b36c4b68eb19a6f828366eaaee67f32106/Instal-10.jpg" data-mid="217182129" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aabfca764c888dc1041afe1cd0af20b36c4b68eb19a6f828366eaaee67f32106/Instal-10.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7497e84bc5f0a4aee781cc8364aea84f098cc72c143c06af62555879811500ef/Instal-7.jpg" data-mid="217182127" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7497e84bc5f0a4aee781cc8364aea84f098cc72c143c06af62555879811500ef/Instal-7.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5595e286e30d6ad394c7d03fc8d4667a998981c51b5f8a21fa157aa30ede23dd/Instal-5a.jpg" data-mid="217182126" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5595e286e30d6ad394c7d03fc8d4667a998981c51b5f8a21fa157aa30ede23dd/Instal-5a.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/834844d7017e20f54481e39db47db448839b4be58274ddaa24308486b5b82a46/Instal-4.jpg" data-mid="217182124" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/834844d7017e20f54481e39db47db448839b4be58274ddaa24308486b5b82a46/Instal-4.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4f96e21c0014cf6532a9c1fa18c1ae1e0f9739cf18d9ca261e2b82c03886e27/Instal-3.jpg" data-mid="217182123" border="0" alt="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" data-caption="Installation shots: Looking back to see if they still look back at me, ARC ONE, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4f96e21c0014cf6532a9c1fa18c1ae1e0f9739cf18d9ca261e2b82c03886e27/Instal-3.jpg" /> https://marinarolfe.com/2023 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:47:24 +0000 Marina Rolfe https://marinarolfe.com/2023 <img width="3500" height="4495" width_o="3500" height_o="4495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e4dea202ff293b4b1d94a47d53a4bdfc3ddf1f0bc650be1549c5c5f39497bc7/Marina-Rolfe3.jpg" data-mid="217182162" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Hours later, in the depth of the spectacle&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Hours later, in the depth of the spectacle”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e4dea202ff293b4b1d94a47d53a4bdfc3ddf1f0bc650be1549c5c5f39497bc7/Marina-Rolfe3.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="4495" width_o="3500" height_o="4495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2f8b5c418898383f8701712fe0015744de8c2b55361f4979b34e5af86e7605a/The-blue-morning.jpg" data-mid="217182170" border="0" alt="&ldquo;The blue morning&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“The blue morning”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2f8b5c418898383f8701712fe0015744de8c2b55361f4979b34e5af86e7605a/The-blue-morning.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="4495" width_o="3500" height_o="4495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90d0ed1627b9bb57da0a9f191f7a9eee2a0931d2b5a6936179bf3d795966d0b0/The-afternoon-of-warm-grey_Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="217182171" border="0" alt="&ldquo;The afternoon of warm grey&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“The afternoon of warm grey”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90d0ed1627b9bb57da0a9f191f7a9eee2a0931d2b5a6936179bf3d795966d0b0/The-afternoon-of-warm-grey_Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="4495" width_o="3500" height_o="4495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9897f3049fda57121265687b1180694b2ace42de6f8566bc6ce4c97344a7bacf/Above_Marina-Rolfe.jpg" data-mid="217182172" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Above&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Above”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9897f3049fda57121265687b1180694b2ace42de6f8566bc6ce4c97344a7bacf/Above_Marina-Rolfe.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/331033ce3ee40c4ab7d85aaffab83c9626fa6034ef1cc5303314e7afdcb591a6/_THE-FLYING-BLUE-FISH-by-Marina-Rolfe-small.jpg" data-mid="217182174" border="0" alt="&ldquo;The flying blue fish&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“The flying blue fish”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/331033ce3ee40c4ab7d85aaffab83c9626fa6034ef1cc5303314e7afdcb591a6/_THE-FLYING-BLUE-FISH-by-Marina-Rolfe-small.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1e57d082750bddcb00a6879a6a00351389354e2be36e1e7b077ecba968533f5/10.jpg" data-mid="217182175" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Slowly the mountain dust descends&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Slowly the mountain dust descends”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1e57d082750bddcb00a6879a6a00351389354e2be36e1e7b077ecba968533f5/10.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/795aa65f052c38e7dccf85aaa6a217e4abaec7c749f1ecb4f8530ef23300324a/6.jpg" data-mid="217182176" border="0" alt="&ldquo;This far because the night&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“This far because the night”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/795aa65f052c38e7dccf85aaa6a217e4abaec7c749f1ecb4f8530ef23300324a/6.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58c00e93a582be0c0eebbef06fb78178c8137fc00a3a972a44dd24bdcad1218f/12.jpg" data-mid="217182177" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Where the unforeseen forest unfurls &rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Where the unforeseen forest unfurls ”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58c00e93a582be0c0eebbef06fb78178c8137fc00a3a972a44dd24bdcad1218f/12.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8400f1cd1fb1aec70b2737dbc4631cc753e2f6d8c97105829a0a427c3bc599b5/Bird-watching-small.jpg" data-mid="217182178" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Bird watching for a cat&rdquo;, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Bird watching for a cat”, 102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8400f1cd1fb1aec70b2737dbc4631cc753e2f6d8c97105829a0a427c3bc599b5/Bird-watching-small.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cc1f66305920eaf5b41edaffeb8451140deb5a4ae787ec670b9181cc2336c25/13.jpg" data-mid="217182179" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Yellow Spring&rdquo;,102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Yellow Spring”,102cm x 81cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7cc1f66305920eaf5b41edaffeb8451140deb5a4ae787ec670b9181cc2336c25/13.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1926" width_o="1500" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/302936840d2a60b4a381d83c375ef472391d9bb178e4abce02839f47f9909514/11.jpg" data-mid="217182180" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Foraging for marigolds&rdquo;, 120cm x 105cm, oil on linen" data-caption="“Foraging for marigolds”, 120cm x 105cm, oil on linen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/302936840d2a60b4a381d83c375ef472391d9bb178e4abce02839f47f9909514/11.jpg" /> https://marinarolfe.com/about Tue, 03 May 2022 09:09:18 +0000 Marina Rolfe https://marinarolfe.com/about &lt; I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work: the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Marina Rolfe (b.1989) Education2025 - current&nbsp;Master of Fine Arts,&nbsp;Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne 2022 Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, HSE Art School, Moscow, RussiaSolo Exhibitions2026 “The edge of holding”, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne2024 “Looking back to see if they still look back at me”, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne2023 “The Encounter”, City Library Gallery, Melbourne2019 “In hesitation we believe”, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Selected Group Exhibitions2026 Melbourne Art Fair, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne 2025 Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney2025 Melbourne Art Fair, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne2024 Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney2023 Know One Place, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne2023 Nature Knot, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne2022 VCA Art Graduate show, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Awards, Residencies and Scholarships2024 Finalist Kings School Art Prize, Sydney, Australia 2023 ARC ONE Artist Opportunity 2021 AG McMillen Arts Trust – Art Scholarship Award2019 Winner SBS Portrait Prize, Melbourne, Australia2015 Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency, Berlin, GermanyCollections ArtbankPrivate collections worldwide Press 2026 Memo Review,&nbsp;Marina Rolfe: The Edge of Holding by Clare Fuery-Jones, 2 May 2026 2026 Conversations with Artist, Sydney Contemporary, April 2026 2025 Collectors Love, Art Collector Magazine, January - March 2025 2024 Look Out For, Art Collector Magazine, September 2024 2024 Melbourne Artist Marina Rolfe Reveals Her New Solo Exhibition, The Design Files, 15 May 2024 2023 The Must-Know Breakout Australian Creatives of 2022, The Design Files, 6 January 2023 2022 The Captivating Landscapes of Marina Rolfe, The Design Files, 19 July, 2022 &nbsp; https://marinarolfe.com/contact Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:19:47 +0000 Marina Rolfe https://marinarolfe.com/contact For all enquiries please email&nbsp;&nbsp;marinarolfe@gmail.comInstagram: @marinarolfe