MARIAN TUBBS
resort work
21 May – 25 June 2022

STATION | MELBOURNE

Intrigued by the tensions found between pleasure, labour, and luxury, resort work examines travel and notions of the utopian escape. This iteration of Marian Tubbs’ assemblage-focused practice presents itself through forms of digital and analogue painting, sculpture, and installation.

resort work explores the engineered and fabricated spaces built to mimic natural ecologies or heighten the body’s experience of its surrounds. ‘How hard do we have to work to relax?’ is a broad rhetorical question evident through the exhibition that can be seen two-fold. Tubbs magnifies the perplexing nature of manufactured spaces designed for relaxation. In form, the artist presents a maximalist attention to detail to find resolution in her work.

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Marian Tubbs
resort work 2022
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Marian Tubbs
resort work 2022
installation view

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Marian Tubbs
resort work 2022
installation view

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Marian Tubbs
have we set up our own resorts 2022
digital print on lustre
edition of 2 + 1AP

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Marian Tubbs
lazy river 2022
digital print on lustre
edition of 2 + 1AP

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Marian Tubbs
books (you were nice to me, and then you were mean, and then i gave up) 2022
inkjet on hahnemühle photo rag
edition of 2 + 1AP

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Marian Tubbs
i will do all the work i will just do it all wrong 2022
digital print on lustre
edition of 2 + 1AP

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Marian Tubbs
canyons and sharks 2022
digital print on lustre
edition of 2 + 1AP

The Farm

Marian Tubbs
the farm 2021
inkjet print
edition of 2 + 1AP