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About the artist
Mary Buchanan Bailey is one of the few serious social commentary arts workers in Tasmania. Since the 1980s she has been exhibiting highly individualised art works and short stories on women, individuals and groups marginalised by society.
Her ceramics and artworks have been shown in numerous group and joint shows, seven solo exhibitions and two touring exhibitions. Her work is represented in private collections in Australia, Japan, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.
Her visual and literary work frequently uses her contemporary social world as a metaphor for the complexities of human relationships. However some of her work is more immediate and autobiographical, reflecting self portraiture within an essay approach.
Her current work explores the impact on individuals and the community of the progressive closure during the 1990s of the public mental health institutions and their related support facilities.
Her proposed exhibition for 2012 is along this theme. This exhibition will feature mixed media works and mono-prints mounted on canvas ranging in size from 96x61cm to 31x31cm and a limited edition short story.
The major medium currently used by the artist is form of mono-print on a variety of papers mounted on canvas. These are overpainted mainly using water colours. Some works involve collage, gouache, acrylic and oils.
The artist lives and works in Lauderdale Tasmania.
email: marybailey4@bigpond.com
email: marybailey4@bigpond.com
Solo exhibitions include
2011 The Mad the Bad and the Different
Proposed Exhibition
2002 NO PETS or CHILDREN
Schoolhouse Gallery
1999 A long line of women with a flick fringe
Sadlers Court Gallery
1998 Whatever happened to Beatrix Maree
Sadlers Court Gallery
1997 MRS P and the JELLY BEAN FACTORY
Schoolhouse Gallery
Touring exhibition with Tas Regional Arts
1995 AUNTS AT THE WEDDING
Schoolhouse Gallery
Touring exhibition with Tas Regional Arts
1988 ME an MRS P
Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre
Group and joint exhibitions include
2000 Five Clarence Artists
2000 NOWSA Exhibition Melbourne
1997 Clarence Art Exhibition winner also (1985 - 97)
1989-93 Hobart Art Prize selected
1989-93 Sullivans Cove Spring, Winter and Christmas exhibitions
1988 Devonport Gallery ans Arts Centre
1987 Gallery Two Launceston
1987 Freemans Gallery
Joint exhibitions include
1992-94 Despard Gallery
1994-1990 Freeman Gallery Backspace
Publications include
1988 Mrs P and Me - Poetry
1995 Aunts at the wedding
1997 Mrs P and the jelly bean factory
1998 Whatever happened to Beatrix Maree
1999 A long line of women with a flick fringe
2002 The story of Chicken Little
2011 The Mad the Bad and the different
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