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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.
EXHIBITIONS March 2010 - Glass, Cinders and Thorns Group Show at Gallery 323 East, Royal Oak USA December 2009 - 'Multiversal' (WST Worldwide), Miami USA October 2009 - 'Get Trucked' Exhibition at Per Square Metre Gallery, Melbourne Australia March 2009 - Trinity Exhibition at Dazzleland Studios, Melbourne Australia PRESS June 2010 - Designer HeartFELT brooch Frankie Magazine 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.
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