Acrylic on Plywood
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Marc Etherington’s works take pop culture, childhood memories and everyday domestic life as their subject matter, rendering them through a darkly humorous and sometimes absurd lens. References to Jurassic Park, Freddy Krueger, old-school video game aesthetics and boom-boxes point to experiences of coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s, while landscapes and interiors are depicted with an eye for amusing detail.
Self-taught, Etherington has maintained a consistent practice in painting and small sculpture for over a decade and more recently has worked with larger scale sculptural installations and ceramics. His sculptural works touch on themes such as mass production and collectibles.
Etherington’s portraits of artists, Idris Murphy and his dog Wally (2019), Me and Granny (2018), Paul Williams (2017), Ken Done (2016) and Del Kathryn Barton (2015) have been finalists in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery NSW. He has also exhibited in Sulman Prize (2017 and 2016) and John Fries Art Award at UNSW Art & Design. In 2015 Etherington held a solo exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.
Born 1973 Sydney
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 4 Solos: Marc Etherington, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney 2014 Marc Making, Gallery 9, Sydney
Marc Etherington, Breezeblock Gallery, Sydney
2013 Two Sydney Painters (with Digby Webster), D.N.A. Gallery Sydney 2012 Life and Times, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
You’re my no. 1: curated by Talia Smith, Firstdraft, Sydney
2016 Seven deadly sins, Old Rum Store, Chippendale
A Billion bucks, The Honeymoon Suite, Brunswick, Melbourne
Group Show, Gallery 9, Sydney
Friends With Benefits, Twenty Thirty Seven, Sydney
2014 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney
Glazed and Confused, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
One Last Time (curated by Peter Fay), Sheffer Gallery, Sydney Still Nothing New (curated by Sophie Kitson), William St Windows, Sydney
John Fries Art Award, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney Renegades, KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns (touring)
2013 Art On Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney Salon des Refusés, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Home and Hosed, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
Exit Pursued by a Bear, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney 2012 Out of the Blue, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
2011 Showdown, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
2010 Frank and Friends, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Here, there and everywhere, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney Biggie Smalls, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2017 Finalist, Finalist, 2016 Finalist,
Finalist, 2015 Finalist,
2014 Finalist, Sydney Finalist,
2013 Finalist, Finalist,
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre,
John Fries Art Award, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
Salon des Refusés, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Art On Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
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