Marika Borlase examines contemporary culture with wry visual imagery. Using heightened colour and a complex overlay of patterns, her landscapes and urban environments mirror western society's manias and aspirations.

Borlase's colour palette is borrowed from the make-believe world of comics and interior decorating colour charts. Her colour is as radiant as it is disorientating. The flat colour areas are further embellished with added layers of airbrushed grids, pixels or patterns to give a sense of colour vibrancy and detail.

These complex environments are reinforced by a compositional pandemonium and two-dimensionality suggestive of Lichtenstein's later work. Through the layering of images from different contexts and time frames, Borlase is investigating the terrain of collective culture. These works ask questions about the meaning of being an individual in a world bombarded with images of success, from the subtly personal to the overtly commercial.

Borlase is represented in a range of public and private collections including Artbank, BHP Billiton, The London Institute and the National Gallery of Victoria.