Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Aether Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
2025 Lunasa Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
2024 Finestra Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
2024 Solas Murray Art Museum Albury MAMA, Albury, NSW, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2025 Local is Lovely, Beechworth Contemporary Art Space, Beechworth
2025 Thirteen, Resident Artists Exhibition Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta
2025 Beyond the Bends, Stanley Memorial Hall, Stanley, Victoria
2025 Surrounds, Old Stone Hall Gallery, Beechworth, Victoria
2025 Resident Artists Exhibition Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta
2025 Empowerment Beechworth Contemporary Art Space, Beechworth
2024 Resident Artists Exhibition ‘Fifteen’ Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta
2024 Spring Collection, Beechworth Contemporary Art Space,Beechworth
2024 Winter Collection, Beechworth Contemporary Art Space,Beechworth
2024 Resident Artists Exhibition ‘Winter’ Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta
2024 Winterwords, Beechworth, Victoria
2024 30 x 30 Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta
2023 Colour Beechworth Arts Council, Beechworth
2023 30 x 30 Art Gallery on Ovens, Wangaratta
2023 Winterwords, Beechworth, Victoria
2023 Autumn Beechworth Arts Council, Beechworth
2022 Winterwords, Beechworth, Victoria
2022 Mayday Hills Art Society Exhibition, Beechworth
2021 Mayday Hills Art Society Exhibition, Beechworth
2020 Mayday Hills Art Society Exhibition, Beechworth
2019 Circles of Life Mandala Exhibition, Camberwell Arts Society, Camberwell
During a residency in Collemacchia, Italy, Wangaratta-based artist Marie Salinger undertook daily contemplative walks through the Abruzzo National Park. These walks inspired a series of drawings, prints, and paintings created using foraged natural materials alongside impressions of the land’s contours. The freedom to work without expectation profoundly shaped her practice, which contemplates deeply personal places where joy and grief coexist. Building on this experience, Salinger’s new works continue to investigate light, shadow and liminal space while responding to local landscapes. Her layered mixed-media works combine monoprints with textured acrylic painted surfaces scraped back to reveal what lies beneath.
In these works Salinger turns toward the unseen forces that shape both landscape and the human heart. The title recalls the ancient idea of Aether, a subtle, luminous medium that binds earth and sky. In Salinger’s hands, it becomes a metaphor for the invisible currents through which memory, creativity and healing move.
Marie Salinger, May Fly, 2024, acrylic paint and pigmented ink on canvas, 200cm x 200cm.
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch.
Art Gallery on Ovens
"Lúnasa" refers to a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.The creative “seeds” for the Lunasa paintings were germinated during an artist residency at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Collemacchia, Italy. Later developed and resolved in Marie’s Beechworth studio this creative “harvest” has produced vibrant acrylic paintings incorporating collaged monoprints created in the Italian studio. The works explore the natural world as well as worlds that lie hidden just beyond our perception and invite the viewer to contemplate what might be just below the surface. Although strongly influenced by Collemacchia and Beechworth these landscapes are more reflections of Marie’s inner world rather than references to a specific place. They are deeply personal delving into the places where art, nature and healing intersect.
Murray Art Museum Albury
Underpinned by the central theme Solas (Gaelic for light) these works are deeply personal delving into places where art, nature and healing intersect. Influenced by the environments of North East Victoria this body of work investigates the idea of thresholds and in between spaces such as the crevices in granite rocks, the etched lines created by scribbly gum moths under the bark of gum trees and the fine spider web like mycorrhizal fungi that penetrates the soil. The works explore the notion of transience, liminal spaces and the interconnectedness of all life forms. In tandem with these states is a sense of chaos, chance and loss - the ebb and flow of the life journey we are all on.
Art Gallery on Ovens
Finestra is the Italian word for window and these works offer glimpses into my worlds both real and imagined. The works depict the landscapes of North East Victoria in macro and micro ways; they look to the vast ranges and plains as much as to the cracks between granite and the carvings of scribbly gum moths, often layering this imagery in a single painting. My interest is not in a visual representation of the landscape but in deep contemplation and distillation of the emotions and feelings of a place. My landscapes are reflections of my inner world rather than references to a specific place and are deeply personal delving into the places where art, nature and healing intersect.
Winterwords
Beechworth
The Winterwords Festival takes place each year in Beechworth and is a five day celebration of words including Artwords. For the Artwords exhibition each artwork must include at least one word. This work is titled Pied Beauty and includes the beautiful poem of the same name by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Art Gallery on Ovens
'Fifteen', a group exhibition of fifteen Art Gallery on Ovens Resident Artists is the final exhibition for 2024.
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