Responding to Marion Harper: Restless Encounter - un Projects

By Kannitha Lim

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Responding to Marion Harper: Restless Encounter - un Projects

In reflecting on the varied approaches to furniture engaged by artists, designers and architects, the cultural and social contribution of furniture is evident. However, architecture’s urge to respond and engage with the modern socio-political conditions has become more present.

Kannitha Lim is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on Bunurong Country. Kannitha is an emerging arts writer for the KINGS 2024 Emerging Writers Program. This will be Kannitha’s first published article and would like to thank Wen-Juenn Lee (mentor) and Emily Kostos (editor), KINGS ARI, un Projects, MPRG and the Frankston library staff for all their support and patience.

KINGS Artist-run Emerging Writers' Program In 2015, KINGS Artist-Run commenced an Emerging Writers’ Program aimed at providing opportunities for emerging arts writers to have their work published in a public forum and to further critical dialogue between writers and artists exhibiting in the KINGS program. Throughout the program each writer is mentored in the development of a text to be published within the gallery.

This piece is commissioned as part of the KINGS x un Projects Emerging Writers Program.

Supported by Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne.

Marion Harper has recently completed her MFA (Research) the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2024) and holds a BFA in painting (VCA) from the mid-90s. Painting for more than 20 years, Harper’s practice extends to video, installation, ceramic and photo-based media. Marion has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows, receiving public endorsement in the form of grants from Arts Victoria and an Australia Council residency in Paris. She has presented individual exhibitions at Gallerysmith, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Kleinerfelt Gallery, FortyFive Downstairs, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Talk Gallery, Basement Gallery, Temple Gallery as well as many group exhibitions. She has been a finalist in art prizes such as Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, the Sorrento Art Prize and the Bayside Painting Prize. Her works are held in the QUT Collection, the Latrobe University Collection and various private collections.

She is represented by Gallerysmith