Artist Statement

Michelle Molinari is a painter, printmaker and taxidermy artist. Her work thematically addresses both the concepts of death and animal beauty through the physical nature of the taxidermic medium and depicted subject matter of her painted works. Molinari’s work seeks to investigate the cultures of longing that impel the urge to preserve something from nature’s inevitable course.

Drawing upon the histories of taxidermic representation and the European still life tradition, Molinari often creates her own taxidermy which generates the inspiration for her still life arrangements. Working from life observation her paintings highlight a beauty and sentimentality that is implicit of the artists own gestural motivations for preserving and memorialising the death of these specimens.

“The process and understanding of taxidermy itself is vital to the developmental process of my work, not only does the act of creating the taxidermy enable me to acquire an internal and empathetic understanding of the animal, it is also just as revealing of the human sentiment to hold something away from death as well as reveal it.”

Michelle Molinari's work is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

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Saturday 21 February 2015

New website update

Please check out my new website

www.michellemolinariartist.com

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Wednesday 13 August 2014

Michelle Molinari- Nature Mort 15 July - 2 August 2014







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Michelle Molinari Nature Mort 15 July - 2 August 2014

                                          Into Memory, 2014, oil on linen
                                        In Remembrance, 2014, oil on linen
                                                    Memento, 2014, oil on linen
                                                In Memoriam, 2014, oil on linen


                                           
                                  At Rest, 2014, charcoal on velour paper



Memento Mori, 2014, charcoal on velour paper

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Michelle Molinari- Nature Mort 15 July - 2 August 2014


                                                     




Nature Morte, 2014, Oil on aluminium 





                                                    Beneath the dome, 2014, oil on aluminium




The Eternal Sleep, 2014, Oil on aluminium 




Eternal Sleep, 2014, Taxidermy fox, perspex dome, black tinted mirror




                                     
 Together at the End, 2014, taxidermy finches, deep set convex glass and frame






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Friday 28 March 2014

Recent Works




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Sunday 23 March 2014

2013 Graduate Exhibition VCA



The Chamber, 2013
Seven taxidermy finches, deep set convex glass, black perspex acrylic, frame



(View from side)



Still as Death III. 2013
Three taxidermy finches, silk twine, copper clasp, convex glass, black perspex acrylic, antique frame



( View from side) 



Still as Death I & II , 2013
taxidermy pigeon, taxidermy rooster, black perspex acrylic, convex glass, antique frame



(View from side)


Still as Death, 2013 Installation



                   
                                                                     
                                                 Fallen, 2013
                             Oil on linen, enamel coated oval frame






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Monday 17 March 2014

2013 Works




               
                   

                                                 
Together, 2013, oil on linen in enamel frame


Encased, 2013, installation

 

                                        Encased, 2013, Oil on linen



Eternal Stillness, 2013, installation
Oil on Linen, enamel frame, taxidermy pigeon, glass dome
Exploration 13, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne




Eternal Stillness, 2013, oil on linen in enamel frame






        Mortality Observed, 2013, LWOO - The Little Window Of Opportunity,                                                   Port Jackson Press, Fitzroy


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