CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Michelle Molinari

Michelle Molinari is a painter, printmaker and taxidermy artist. Her work thematically focuses on and encompasses notions of death, memorialisation and observation through the genre of taxidermy. By working across various media she looks to blur the divisions that typically exist between these artistic disciplines. Incorporating multiple mediums within a single installation, Molinari explores the relationships that are created between the image and object.

Drawing upon the histories of taxidermic representation and the European still life tradition, Molinari often creates her own taxidermy which generates the inspiration for her still life arrangements. Working from observation her paintings highlight a beauty and sentimentality that is implicit of the artist’s own gestural motivations for preserving and memorialising the death of these specimens.

‘The process and understanding of taxidermy itself is vital to the developmental process of my work, not only does the act of creating the taxidermy enable me to acquire an internal and empathetic understanding of the animal, it is also just as revealing of the human sentiment to hold something away from death as well as reveal it.’
Michelle Molinari 2013

A Victorian College of the Arts graduate, Molinari was awarded the Fiona Myer Award and the Majlis Encouragement Award in 2012. She exhibited in Flinders Lane Gallery’s annual emerging artist exhibition Exploration 13, and was announced joint winner of the FLG Emerging Artists Encouragement Award. Molinari held a highly anticipated and successful first solo exhibition with Flinders Lane Gallery in 2014, and in the same year was announced as a finalist in the Eutick Still Life Award. In December 2014 Molinari was announced the winner of the Graeme Hildebrant Foundation Travel Grant, which allowed her to undertake residencies in both New York (USA) and in Florence (Italy) in 2015. In 2015 her major work 'Nature Mort' was acquired for the Gippsland Art Gallery Collection. In 2016 Mollinari was a Finalist in both the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award and the AME Bale $50,000 Travelling Scholarship.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Here and After, by Phe Luxford 2016
Nature Mort, by Laura Skerjl 2015

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Natural Curiosities - Duckling 2016
oil on linen
50cm x 40cm
(framed size 80 x 60cm)
$3,500 AUD

Natural Curiosities - Red Crowned Parakeet 2016
oil on linen
50cm x 40cm
(framed size 80 x 60cm)
$3,500 AUD

Erythura Memory Portrait 2015
oil on linen
25cm x 20cm
(framed size 56 x 50cm)
$1,100 AUD

Siskin Memory Portrait 2015
oil on linen
25cm x 20cm
(framed size 49 x 44cm)
$1,100 AUD

Into Memory 2014
oil on linen
50cm x 40cm
(framed size 70 x 60cm)
$3,500 AUD

Found Fatality Wood Pigeon 2016
oil on linen
71cm x 98cm framed
$4,500 AUD

Precious Nest 2016
oil on linen
50cm x 60cm
(framed size 70.8 x 80.96cm)
$3,500 AUD

Here and After We Come Together 2016
oil on linen
102cm x 76cm
(framed size137 x 112cm)
$6,000 AUD

Memento-Mori 2016
charcoal on velour paper
50cm x 34cm
(framed size 60 x 44cm)
$1,900 AUD

Birds of a Feather 2015
oil on linen
50cm x 60cm (framed size 70.8 x 80.96cm)
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$3,500 AUD