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KATHERINE MARMARAS  
Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
Lives and works in Narrm/Melbourne 

SELECTED AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Finalist - 2026 Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Awards
Finalist - 2025 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize 
Finalist - 2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award  
Finalist - 2023 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize 
Finalist – 2019 Emerging Artist Award presented by fortyfivedownstairs  
Finalist – 2019 Northern Beaches Artist Book Award 
Finalist – 2019 Burnie Print Prize 
Finalist – 2018 PETITE Miniature Textiles Exhibition 
Finalist – 2017 Manly Library Artists’ Book Award 
Finalist – 2017 Burnie Print Prize  
Finalist – 2016 Noosa Art Award and SHE 
Finalist – 2013 Borough of Queenscliffe 150th Anniversary Art Awards 
Finalist – 2012 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints 
Finalist – 2011 41st Muswellbrook Open Art Prize 
Purchase Prize Winner – 2008 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints  
Highly Commended Print Award –  2004 Inaugural St Peters Eastern Hill City of Melbourne Art Show                                                                                                                                            
SOLO EXHIBITIONS    
2024 
Pieced Together, Geelong Art Space, Geelong, Victoria
2020  
Piecing together… fragments of culture, Geelong Art Space,  Geelong, Victoria   
2019   
[Found] peacefulness…, Assembly Point, Sturt Street, Southbank, Victoria     
Piecing together…, Community Exhibition, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria
2018   
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Box Hill, Victoria  
Metamorphy, Fitzroy Library Showcases, Fitzroy, Victoria    
2015   
Obscuring the [not so] obvious…, Community Project Wall, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria    
2012    
Pieces of Peacefulness, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
RESIDENCIES 
2020 -24 Self-driven Artist in Residence as Artist, Curator, Founder and Director at Geelong Art Space, Geelong, Victoria      
2019 Boroondara Arts Artist in Residence at Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn, Victoria   
2018 Artist in Residence at Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Box Hill, Victoria 
                                                                                                                                       COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS & WORKSHOPS
2025  Pollinators, a Firestation Print Studio members exhibition, Print Council of Australia gallery                                                                    
From Waste To Wonder and Marking Nature: Sustainable Art Making - two school holiday workshops at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2024   Slow Repair – a social practice fundraising project initiated by Linda Knight at GalleryGalleryInc, Brunswick, Victoria  (More details here) 
2021    An Altered View, drawing and participation event, Geelong Design Week at Geelong Art Space     
2020    Craft Contemporary Festival satellite event: Waste Not, Want Not – installation project at Geelong Art Space    
2019    Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed Festival Satellite Events: Fragments of culture… Pop-up Exhibition in collaboration with Great Frames   
Workshops – Drawing on photos in Melbourne
Cultural Collage  – community event for Boroondara Arts 
2018    CRAFT Cubed Window Walk Project – Katherine Marmaras x Print City, Melbourne  
CRAFT Cubed Festival Satellite Event – Photo Drawing – online and in-person workshop 
2016 BioCup Art Series, BioPak Australia

CURATORIAL PROJECTS 
2023    Waste Not, Want Not Exhibition - a small group exhibition curated by me and featuring the works of 12 other artists and makers at Geelong Art Space.  This event was part of Craft Victoria's Craft Contemporary Satellite Event program.  
2022    Thread[laid]bare - a small group exhibition curated by me and featuring the works of 12 other artists and makers – a Craft Contemporary Festival Satellite Event at Geelong Art Space  
2021     [Wall]flower… a small group exhibition curated by me and featuring the works of 5 other artists and makers – a Craft Contemporary Festival Satellite Event held at Geelong Art Space   

JURIED & INVITED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Craft Members Only exhibition, Craft - Main Gallery
2025
Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize, Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Linden Postcard Show 2024-25, Linden New Art
2024    
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Finalists Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery
2023     
Paper Cloth on the Hills Hoist, Colac Otways Arts Trail, Barwon Downs
2022     
Bookish – Print Council of Australia members exhibition, The Athenaeum Library (Melbourne Art Book Fair)  
2020    
COVID-19 Global Community Quilt – online. Initiated by Tal Fitzpatrick and Kate Just.    
2019     
Wyndham Art Prize ExhibitIon, Wyndham Art Gallery 
Northern Beaches Artist Book Award, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Manly, NSW    
Burnie Print Prize Exhibition, Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
Make or Break Group Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery      
Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne   
Botanical:Group Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery
2018     
Pop-Up Posters Paddington, Paddington Library, Paddington, NSW     
From Nature 2018, Gasworks Arts Park  
Compact Prints, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Queensland   
PETITE Miniature Textiles Exhibition, Wangaratta Art Gallery 
St Kevin’s College 48th Art Show   
Art for Epilepsy, Online Fundraising Auction   
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art 
2017     
Ceramic, Brunswick Street Gallery
Morning Light, Incube8r Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria   
Relief Print Exhibition, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop   
ABBE 2017, 6th artists’ books + multiples fair, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland  
Burnie Print Prize 2017, Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Manly Library Artists’ Book Award, The Creative Space, North Curl Curl, NSW   
Bellarine Printmakers, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop   
Art for Epilepsy, Online Fundraising Auction   
Pop-Up Posters Paddington, Paddington Library, Paddington, NSW 
2016     
'Primavera’ exhibition, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop 
Compact Prints 2016, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts Gallery, Townsville 
36th Mini Print International of Cadaques, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spain and “L’Etangd’Art”, Bages, France 
Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop June Group Exhibition 
Noosa Art Award Exhibition, Noosa Regional Gallery 
‘Lettered’ Print Exchange, Queenscliffe Literary Festival, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop 
SHE 2016 Exhibition, Gallery One, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria

MEDIA
Waste Not, Want Not exhibition for Craft Victoria's Craft Contemporary satellite program (2023)
thread[laid]bare exhibition for Craft Victoria's Craft Contemporary satellite program (2022)
[Wall]flower exhibition for Craft Victoria's Craft Contemporary satellite program (2021)
Craft Conversations - Waste Not Want Not installation for Craft Victoria's Craft Contemporary satellite program (2020)
Craft Conversations - Fragments of Culture exhibition for Craft Cubed satellite program (2019)
Review - Obscuring the [not so] obvious… , Town Hall Gallery (September 2015)
Firestation Print Studio: the State of the Art (2014) Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne
Review - Second International Mokuhanga Conference: IMC2014, IMPRINT, Vol 49 No 4, P.48 (2014)
Review - Ebony Addinsall and Katherine Marmaras at Anita Traverso Gallery - www.habitusliving.com (2012)
Review - 2008 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, IMPRINT, Vol 43 No 4, p.32

COLLECTIONS 
Silk Cut Foundation Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, New York, USA 
Various private collections – nationally and internationally
MEMBERSHIPS 
The Australian Ceramics, Association (TACA), Print Council of Australia,  CRAFT Victoria (Accredited Member), Women's Art Register, Firestation Print Studio, and National Association for Visual Artists (NAVA)
EDUCATION  
Diploma of Visual Art (Printmaking) – RMIT University (TAFE), Melbourne, Victoria 
Certificate I in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft – Council of Adult Education, Melbourne, Victoria