Support Materials: Donna Marcus Examples of Work

Khrushchev + Nixon

2013

plastic, brass, SLC print

15 x 15 x 30 cm

Nixon and Khrushchev expounded political ideologies at the now famous 1959 Moscow ‘kitchen debate’ at an exhibition using a ‘typical’ American kitchen as a bravura demonstration of technological and social superiority.  Since that time, centres and peripheries of material production and technologies have changed dramatically.

One component of Khrushchev + Nixon is assembled using knobs of saucepan lids collected over 20 years, the patina of use etched into the point of connection between hand and lid. While the other component is fresh from the printer, delivered to the doorstep in a smart new box.  The identity of who represented by each piece is now longer clear.

Delphinus

2009

Location: King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Art Management: Urban Art Projects

Marcus’ sculptural practice of utilising distinctly mundane everyday domestic objects creates an aura of intimacy that stems from nostalgic memory and familiarity with in this case, the humble lemon squeezer. Marcus’ internally lit sculptures are positioned to match the Delphinus constellation documented by astronomer As-Sufi (Azophi) over 1000 years ago, and guide pedestrians through the Seacourt area.

Re-Entry

2010

Location: The Atrium, Federation Square, Melbourne

Commissioned as part of Fed Square’s Occupy program, an ongoing series of site-specific installations, the work continues the artists’ practice of collecting various types of aluminium cookware, and reshaping it into domes, spheres, clusters, and other serial forms reminiscent of 60’s utopian architecture. Internally-lit, and ambitious in scale, Marcus’ suspended sculptures playfully appear as if a small storm of space debris has re-entered the atmosphere

Scale

2017

Plastic (Retrieved saucepan knobs), aluminium plate

20 x 24 x 2 cm

Redroom

2010

Aluminium 133 x 133 x 8 cm

Redroom was commissioned by the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Shanghai World Expo 2010 Project, to represent Queensland in the Australian Pavilion (VIP  area), Shanghai World Expo 2010 and was subsequently gifted to the Shanghai Municipal Council.

Burst

2017

Anodised aluminium   90 x 76 x 8 cm

Radiate

2017

Aluminium and anodised aluminium 95 x 83 x 7 cm

Gold (Yellow) Gold (White) Gold (Pink)

2018

Aluminium, dimensions variable

103 x 227 x 21 cm each

Registration

2018

Aluminium

90 x 220 x 6 cm

Pail

2018

Vitreous enamel, mild steel 

38 cm diameter

Range

2018

Vitreous enamel

38 cm diameter