Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Marian Crawford’s research is driven by a curiosity about the pedagogic power of images and an interrogation of how images represent and convey knowledge, helping us to know the world. Her works explore representations of loss, focusing on climate change and political conflict, and fine art printmaking processes’ critical engagement with repetition and multiplicity. Crawford also explores the relationships between the book, printmaking processes, and the printed image in contemporary culture.
She was awarded the Siganto Fellowship at the State Library of Queensland 2015/16 and has presented her research publicly for over twenty years. Her works have recently been publicly presented at the University of South Australia's SASA Gallery and at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne in 2016; at the Museum of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China and the Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ in 2015.
In 2015 Crawford established a collaborative research network The News Network Project drawing together artists and educators from RMIT University, Australian National University, Auckland Institute of Technology, and Dunedin School of Art. This trans-Tasman network of artists combines research strengths to creatively recontextualise current events in public outcomes that contribute to contemporary visual art.
Projects 2011 2011
- 1 Finished
International Multi-desciplinary Printmaking Conference 'IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints'
27/09/11 → 30/09/11
Project: Research
Research Output 2002 2019
'Blood Antiquities' - SM - 'Out of the Matrix 2.0'
Crawford, M., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
'Diffraction' - SM - Burnie Print Prize
Crawford, M., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
'Picturing the Island' - SM - Latrobe Regional Gallery
Crawford, M., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
'Picturing the Island' - SM - Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Crawford, M., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
'Picturing the Island' - SM - Tweed Regional Gallery
Crawford, M., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
Prizes
2015 Siganto Foundation Artists’ Books Creative Fellowship
Marian Crawford (Recipient), 8 Dec 2015
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
The 2017 Banyule Award for Works on Paper - Shortlisted
Marian Crawford (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities 2015 2018
Melbourne Art Book Fair
Marian Crawford (Contributor)Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Acquisition: 'Like alliteration' (2017)
Marian Crawford (Producer), Alex Selenitsch (Producer)Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Acquisition
Acquisition: 'Untitled zine of photocopied newspaper clippings about military interventions in the Middle East' (2018)
Marian Crawford (Producer)Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Acquisition
Acquisition: '[Untitled photocopied zine produced as a record to a private museum in Saudi Arabia]' (2018)
Marian Crawford (Producer)Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Acquisition
Acquisition: 'MINIMA-MAXIMA' (2017)
Marian Crawford (Producer), Alex Selenitsch (Producer)Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Acquisition