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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.
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