Exhibition of Paintings, videos, Plexiglass panels combine Baroque Patial Concepts with the layered imagery and voluptous density.

Catalog of Artworks

Sphaeraflora

The spherical composition, reminiscent of 16th-century globes, encapsulates a vibrant array of Australian flora, exploring the tension between Western artistic heritage and the unique beauty of the Australian landscape.

Quadratura (pozzo's view)

Large oil paintings. The work is based on the frescoes of the great Jesuit Perspectivalist of the Baroque era, Andrea Pozzo and his ceiling cycle Saint Ignatius

Dutchscapes

“This exhibition combines two well known idioms of Baroque fabric and Dutch still lives, the quotation of both genres is equally motivated by their differences and the tensions that their marriage engenders. This allowed the exploration of such themes as the relation of surfaces and form, the eroticism of the fold, the flicker and the blur and significantly the embodiment of the viewer. The images were constructed using a 3D digital Baroque stage . The techniques involved cloth simulation, lighting environment control and image mapping. “The indecipherable reality of McGrath’s images coupled with their multiplicity of visual space, soft focus and rich painterly quality point to a baroque visuality.” M.Gusheh

Forest Lucuna

This series juxtaposes archival libraries with Australian bushland, weaving themes of memory, nature, and transformation through delicate animal motifs.

Ex-Libris

“This painting is part of a body of work based on the ancient Strahov monastic library in Prague.”

CUSP (Paintings)

CUSP (1999) 1st Solo exhibition, blends traditional painting and digital techniques to create dynamic, textured works that explore the interplay of surface and depth, inspired by Baroque drama and Dutch still life.

Ornament + The fold

Inspired by a Jeffery Smart mural in my childhood home. The series of works investigate the removal of the mid ground to simplified folded ornamented foreground.

Currently on show: The Spheres of Narcissus

16 OCT TO 9 NOV | OLSENSYDNEY

Ghost Trees

10 AUG TO 8 SEPT | NFSA ACTON

An immersive journey into the digital memory of an endangered forest.

Recent Work/Installed

Artworks ranging from painting to immersive large scale immersive works

Digital mural

A digital re-imagining of floral Dutch still life.

80 Collins Street, Melbourne

Synced projectors

Wetlands and flora

555 Collins Street, Melbourne Sydney

Digital art

Significant Islamic Flora supersized into transparent point clouds

Dubai

Immersive Nature

The virtual children’s tree
An Ode to Growth in a Transient Space

Sydney

Immersive

“Ghost Trees” 120 projectros, 50 speakers

Lume Melbourne, South Wharf, Victoria, Australia

Digital Art

The virtual children’s tree

Sydney

Ai Digital Twin

@piermarqprojects curated by @culture__vault / @arts__matter

6 of Australia’s leading digital native artists to create 2 works – one using traditional digital tools, and the other using AI software to be shown side by side, inviting viewers to contemplate their different reactions and concerns to both pieces

Gallery of past works

Paintings and snippets from videos from last 12 months

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