Marta Romer was born in Budapest, grew up in Montréal, and studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Geneva, before finding her way to Sydney. She lives near the shores of Botany Bay and much of her current work is informed by the coastal rhythms, patterns, colours and iconic structures of the communities and small towns south of the city.
As a printmaker Marta embraces alternative, hybrid practices. Her formal studies began in the 1970s in the traditional discipline of metal plate etching, and in the 1990s she began working with photopolymer plates to combine typographic elements with photograhic and drawn imagery (as in the print matter #3, included here). More recently she has been working across traditional and digital processes, and her archival pigment inkjet prints merge photography, collage, drawing and painting.
Marta holds a Master’s degree and an MFA research degree in printmaking and for many years taught design and visual arts at the (former) College of Fine Arts, University of NSW and at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a member of Sydney Printmakers as well as the Southern Printmakers Association, and of Atelier Circulaire in Montreal, Canada.
A selection of Marta’s work can be seen on her website: www.martaromerartist.com.au
bright afternoon, archival pigment inkjet print
windy yard (diptych), archival pigment inkjet print
at the edge, archival pigment inkjet print
matter #3, etching on photopolymer
redshift (triptych), archival pigment inkjet print
paula likes these lines by virginia woolf, etching on zinc, aquatint, chine collé, colour a la poupée
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