Marlee McMahon
AU/NL. b.1996 Sale, AU.
mcmahonmarlee@gmail.com
@mar__lee_
AU/NL. b.1996 Sale, AU.
mcmahonmarlee@gmail.com
@mar__lee_
Represented by Sutton Gallery, Naarm/ Melbourne AU
EDUCATION
2021-23 Master of Fine Art, Piet
Zwart Institute, Rotterdam NL
2017 BFA (Honours), Victorian College
of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Naarm AU
2014-16 BFA, Victorian College of the
Arts, University of Melbourne, Naarm AU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Shadow Crossed The
Sky, Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy AU
2021 Stepping Lightly, Conners Conners, Fitzroy AU
2021 Heavy Kite, Visions, Auckland Aoetearoa NZ
2020 Digestif,
STATION, South Yarra AU
2019 Carbonated, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland Aoetearoa NZ
2017 61x70xM, Alaska Projects, Sydney AU
2017 Optic White, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale AU
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 ROUND TURN & 2HALF HITCHES (organiser), 4th Brunswick Scout Group, Brunswick West AU
2024 Melbourne Art
Fair, Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy AU
2023 Sydney Contemporary, Sutton Gallery, Sydney AU
2023 Four Meter High Ceilings, Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam
NL
2023 Partial View, MaMA, Rotterdam NL
2022 I Must Be Living Twice, curated by Eloise Sweetman
and Jason Hendrik Hansma, European Cultural Centre, Venice ITA
2022 XXX: Celebrating 30 years of Sutton Gallery, Sutton
Gallery, Fitzroy AU
2021 Play, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale AU
2021 10 Year Show, STATION, South Yarra AU
2021 I Am Here, curated by
Katherine Hattam, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney AU
2020 Deep Breakfast,Haydens, Naarm AU
2020 Melodic Living Room, organised by Martin George and Marlee McMahon, online/
private address, Fitzroy North AU
2020 Sounds of Pacing, Conners
Conners, Fitzroy AU
2019 Mostra, BSR, Rome ITA
2019 Hard Boiled, Neon Parc, Brunswick AU
2019 West Space Fundraiser, West Space, Naarm AU
2019 A more comprehensive physical explanation, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland Aoetearoa NZ
2018 Unrepresented
Artists, curated by Hayden Stuart, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2018 a hush fell, organised by Andrew Read and Hugo
Atkins, 1–35 Wellington St, Collingwood AU
2018 The drawing is just not there, curated by
Patrice Sharkey and Christopher Hill, West Space, Naarm AU
2017 Graduate exhibition (Honours), Victorian College
of the Arts, Naarm AU
2017 Michael Georgetti and Marlee McMahon, Lon
Gallery, Collingwood
2017 Uh, or so on, VCA Art Space, Naarm AU
2017 Summer projects IV, Boom, Geelong AU
2016 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the
Arts, Naarm AU
AWARDS/GRANTS
2025 City of Merri-bek - Flourish Grant with Ella Dunn and Badra Aji
2024 Ian Potter Cultural Trust - Emerging
Artist Grant
2024 Sluijtersprijs, Amsterdam - Finalist
2020 City of Melbourne - COVID-19 Quick Response Arts Grant
2020 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarship
2019 Cranbourne Fellowship in Visual
Art
2017 Majlis Encouragement Award
2016 Sydney Canvas Company Award
2015 Wellington Youth Art Prize
RESIDENCIES
2025 ARCUS Project, Ibaraki,
Japan
2023 Preforming Arts
Forum, Saint Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France
2019 British School at Rome
(Cranbourne Fellowship), Rome, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2024 ‘SPHERE‘, Issue 5, Edited
by Justin Andrews and Jacqueline Stojanovic
UPCOMING:
Solo exhibition at Sutton Gallery Naarm, opening 30th of May 2026.
CURRENT:
PAST:
All are welcome to join us for the opening of ROUND TURN & 2 HALF HITCHES, a group show in a scout hall. This exhibition has been organised by Marlee McMahon, Badra Aji and Ella Dunn with the support of the Flourish Grant from the City of Merri-bek.
Poster Designed by Marlee McMahon
ARCUS Winter Research Residency
Jan 16 - Feb 14, 2025, Ibaraki, Japan.
Happy to announce my participation in the ARCUS Winter Research residency 2025.
This residnency is supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Find out more here.
Images from workshop at Nagakan Factory in Sendai, Japan (Febuary 2025): Completed as part of my ARCUS Research Residency and Ian Potter Grant.
26/09/2024
Feeling extremely grateful and excited to announce that I have been selected to receive funding from The Ian Potter Cultural Trust. This funding will allow for me to travel abroad to experience numerous textile workshops and a residency at ARCUS, Ibaraki Japan, in 2025.
Find out more about the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and other newGrantees from Round 2, 2024 here.
SPHERE
Issue no.5 2024
Online archive of all issues of SPHERE avalible here: https://sphere-archive.com/
To view full contribution on desktop,follow this link and click MARLEE McMAHON: https://sphere-archive.com/issue-5-
18 May – 15 June 2024, Shadow Crossed The Sky, Sutton Gallery, Naarm, AU All are welcome to join me for the opening of my solo show on Saturday the 18th of May from 3-5pm.
Photo by Dane Lovett @a_photographic_record
2 Jun 2024, SPHERE Artist Publication Launch, The Castlemaine Museum of Art.
I am really excited to partake in issue 5 of SPHERE, an ongoing artist book project.
The new issues of SPHERE will be launched on the 2nd of June at The Melbourne Art Book Fair and The Castlemaine Museum of Art.
SPHERE is organised by Justin Andrews with guest co-editor Jacqueline Stojanović. Here> ~www.sphere-archive.com ~ is where you can find a full online archive of previous issues and more details about the project.
Image 1: Page one of my submissionImage 2: Sphere 1–4 2022
Artist book, each issue ed. of 20
Acrylic screen print and laser printed imagery on thermally bound Envirocare 100% recycled card and paper. 21 x 29.7cm each
photo: Camille Perry.
appearing on this website as a screenshot from @sphere_archive Instagram
22 – 25 Feb 2024, Melbourne Art Fair, Sutton Gallery, Naarm, AU
I am looking forward to show a new painting titled ‘Curtains Are Shut’ alongside numerous represented artists. Sutton will exhibit a suite of Gordon Bennett’s abstract paintings, titled
‘Thin Lines’ : Booth C2 see here.
Photo by Christo Crocker
2024 Finalist - Sluijtersprijs, Amsterdam
7 – 10 Sep 2023, Sydney Contemporary, Sutton Gallery, Sydney, AU
Image Gian Manik
8– 14 July 2023, four meter high ceilings, Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam, NL
Review on Metropolis M here.
Poster design by Kate Rebecca Price