Maria Rozalia Finna is at the forefront of Australia's pop-surrealist movement. Her work explores femininity, through psychedelia and surrealism as well as themes of intuition, fertility and the sensitive relationship of the female psyche to nature. Her characters are often anthropomorphic embodiments of natural, physical and esoteric concepts and entities. Through her creative process she shapes abstract and esoteric ideas and beings into living, visceral forms.

Throughout her work, Maria engages with wordplay to form narrative syntheses and bring new characters and worlds into being. She connects disparate objects through word association, fusing high-art aesthetics with a low-brow sensibility towards language.

She challenges the conventional conceptual approach to art expounding, a visceral, expressive form of surrealism that eschews pretension and illusory cleverness for originality, substance, and heart.

Maria’s work re appropriates pop culture icons, transplanting familiar characters and stories into psychedelic and surreal states and scenarios and augmenting the inherent surreality and absurdity of pop-culture.

She takes inspiration from a range of sources, from traditional children’s illustrations and fantasy, to 80's animation and Kawaii culture. Her oeuvre forms an eclectic pastiche, spanning from saccharine psychedelia to muted, ethereal strangeness.



Contact for commissions:

Digital, Drawn & Painted.

EXHIBITIONS

November 2011 - Sweet Streets Group Exhibition, WWA Gallery, Culver City, USA

September 2011 - Just Another Agency Group Exhibition, Semi Permanent, 1000 Pound Bend Gallery , Melbourne Australia

September 2011 - Rock 'N' Dolls Group Show , MondoPOP International Gallery, Roma Italy

June 2011 - Homage to Frida Group Show , 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia

January 2011 - Volution - Alex & Allyson Grey Australian Tour at 1000 Pound Bend Gallery, Melbourne Australia

December 2010 - Snowflakes and Candy Canes at Gallery 323 East, Michigan USA

November 2010 - Waking dreams - 696 Ink Gallery & Tattoo, Melbourne Australia

June 2010 - I Believe in Unicorns - WWA Gallery, Culver City USA

April 2010 - Out Of Nowhere Group Exhibition - 696 Ink Gallery & Tattoo, Melbourne Australia

March 2010 - Glass, Cinders and Thorns Group Show at Gallery 323 East, Royal Oak USA

March 2010 - Sketch In The City - Live Drawing at Dazzleland Studios, Melbourne Australia

February 2010 - Erotica Exotica Group Show at New Puppy Gallery, Los Angeles USA

January 2010 - Cannibal Flower Group Show, Los Angeles USA

December 2009 - 'Paper Pushers' Exhibition at Gallery 1988, San Francisco USA

December 2009 - 'Multiversal' (WST Worldwide), Miami USA

November 2009 - 'Feminality' Exhibition at Hive Gallery, Los Angeles USA

October 2009 - 'Get Trucked' Exhibition at Per Square Metre Gallery, Melbourne Australia

March 2009 - Trinity Exhibition at Dazzleland Studios, Melbourne Australia

PRESS

October 2010 - Pop Psychedelic Big Bros Workshop

June 2010 - Designer HeartFELT brooch Frankie Magazine

June 2010 - Göoo Magazine issue #9 'UTOPIA'

September 2009 - Frankie Magazine #31

April 2009 - Interview on Italian Art Blog

March 2009 - Images can be viewed online at revistakino, Old Boy special

June 2008 - Images can be viewed in this month's 'We Are The Image Makers' online magazine.