Monday, March 12, 2018

Artist of the day, March 12: Mark Schaller, Australian visual artist

Mark Schaller (1962) is an Australian visual artist, he studied fine arts at the Victorian College of the Arts and became a founding member of the renowned Roar Studios in the early 1980s.

Schaller has limitless curiosity and is highly inventive in his selection of materials and his work practices. As Schaller points out, "When I paint, everything else becomes irrelevant. There's no one to tell you what's right or wrong. You can be irrational or rational, emotional or not emotional, sober or conservative. You can be all these things." As we navigate through turbulent times, Schaller provides us with a refreshing, often irreverent, view of ourselves—which is surely salutary.

Today Schaller is regarded as one of Australia’s strongest contemporary mid-career artists and with his unique and colourful expressionistic style, it is easy to see why art consultant Ken McGregor selected him for the more laid back studio version of Art Series’ typically sleek, luxuriant brand of boutique art hotels. In the early days of ROAR there was no way that Schaller could have predicted that he would have a hotel named after him by 2014. His work is sure to receive a further boon with this announcement. In an Australian first, Schaller has already created, and will continue to create, original works for the hotel.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Mark Schaller. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.




Mr Mark Schaller

Yellow and Red Flowers

Untitled

The Tempest

Still Life with Purple Clouds

Nude and Wink

Nellies Bubbles

My Body as a Tea Party

Figures at a Table

Figure

Beast City

2011, Nude with Flowers

2009, Utensils, Pots & Pans Nude

2006, Tsunami

2006, The Butterfly Effect

2006, Regrowth (Grampians)

2006, Orange Sparrow

2006, F-II


2006, Clifton Hill

2006, Butterfly

2005, Orange Nude

2005, Medousa Nude

2004, Across the River Styx

2003, Siren Nude

2003, Large Flowers

2003, Flowers with Grey and Purple

2003, Flowers (Red and Purple)

2002, Still Life with Lemon

2002, Seated Figure

2002, Pelican II

2002, Pelican

2002, Coober Pedy

2002, Alone

2001, Brighton Beach

2000, Egyptian Vase

1999, R.n

1999, Magenta Cup

1998, Untitled (Wine Glass)

1998, John Perceval as Williamstown

1997, Zorba

1996, The Big Jug

1996, Interior

1995, Canal Street

1994, Figure

1989, Woman with Vase of Flowers

1989, Love Letter to a Landscape

1987, Girl on Chair

1985. Untitled

1985, Journey Through the Mountains

1985, Fish Food Factory

1984, Untitled

1982, Untitled (Faces)

1962, Table for two

The Schaller Studio Boutique, Art Series Hotel, Bendigo

The Schaller Studio Boutique, Art Series Hotel, Bendigo

The Schaller Studio Boutique, Art Series Hotel, Bendigo



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