In the mid-eighties, Sydney-reared Marie Hagerty moved to study at the Canberra Institute of the Arts. Since then, she has turned out prolific work, touching on the themes of the human form, femininity and eroticism.
Her oil canvases and triptychs bloom with purest color, curvaceous shapes and sinuous shading, abstracting bodies to make them seem cartoon-like and yet sexy at the same time.
Much thanks to Olsen Irwin Gallery for the pictures.
