... "Marie Hagerty is a painter of elegant abstract canvases with restricted palette [...] but within those self-imposed boundaries she plays with shadows that create the illusion of three-dimensional forms"...
The Sydney-born, Canberra-based Marie Hagerty, painter, sculptor, and teacher, has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1980s in Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne. She was the subject of solo survey exhibitions at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in 2007 and 2016. Hagerty’s works had been included in numerous curated group exhibitions, and, most notably, in the National Gallery of Australia’s landmark Know My Name exhibition. Winner and finalist of numerous art prizes (most recently, Marie won the Calleen Art Award (Cowra Regional Gallery, 2023), and the subject of numerous articles and reviews, Marie’s works have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Gallery of Modern Art / Queensland Art Gallery, Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Artbank, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, regional galleries of Ballarat, Bendigo, and Gold Coast, as well as tertiary, corporate, and private collections across Australia and abroad.