Melodic Living Room
Marlee McMahon and Martin George
Private address, Fitzroy North, Naarm/Melbourne;
Full project online www.melodiclivingroom.com
Published online July 17, 2020
All documentation by Christo Crocker
‘Melodic Living Room sees painters Marlee McMahon and Martin George experiment with new approaches to their separate practices.
Installed in McMahon’s white-walled living room and consisting of five small paintings each, these two bodies of work were produced over months of working in adjacent studios during COVID-19 restrictions. With a lack of immediate deadlines on the one hand and extra studio time on the other, both artists felt freed to take risks, and the works in Melodic Living Room lean towards gesture and spontaneity within different registers of abstraction...’ - Anna Dunnill
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Marlee McMahon and Martin George
Private address, Fitzroy North, Naarm/Melbourne;
Full project online www.melodiclivingroom.com
Published online July 17, 2020
All documentation by Christo Crocker
‘Melodic Living Room sees painters Marlee McMahon and Martin George experiment with new approaches to their separate practices.
Installed in McMahon’s white-walled living room and consisting of five small paintings each, these two bodies of work were produced over months of working in adjacent studios during COVID-19 restrictions. With a lack of immediate deadlines on the one hand and extra studio time on the other, both artists felt freed to take risks, and the works in Melodic Living Room lean towards gesture and spontaneity within different registers of abstraction...’ - Anna Dunnill
Slow Response,
2020, oil on canvas, 200x255mm
