Deborah Marks: Bio

Deborah Marks was awarded a BA in Visual Arts majoring in painting from City Art Institute, Sydney, Australia in 1985. In 1986 she taught painting within Adult Education and in 1987 she gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies. In 2012 she was awarded a Masters in Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney, Australia. 

Deborah has been exhibiting her psychologically incisive paintings over the past twenty five years in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. She has been represented through Defiance Gallery and Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney. Her work has been collected by private and public institutions including the prestigious Kedumba Drawing Award Collection. Her work has been selected as finalist in numerous competitions including the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Blake Prize, and the Korean/Australian Arts Foundation. She has been awarded many arts prizes including the Kedumba Drawing Award and the Hunter’s Hill Art Prize. 

In 2007 Deborah was awarded the Cite International des Arts Paris studio, where she undertook research into historical and contemporary artwork for the Masters in Fine Art Degree which she completed in 2011. The topic of her Exegesis is ‘An Investigation into the Creative Process’, and her figurative paintings and collages for this Research Degree explored psychological issues relating to ‘the self and persona.’ This artwork was exhibited at the Charles Hewitt Gallery in September 2011.  

In May 2016, Deborah exhibited her series of paintings ‘Liminality’ in a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Gallery, Murnau, Germany. She was invited to exhibit her paintings here by the head of Educational Studies at the Franz Marc Museum, Murnau, Silke Luhre. She then travelled and researched master artworks in Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, London and Paris.