Marion Borgelt
Marion Borgelt (born 1954) is a contemporary Australian artist based in Sydney. Borgelt originally trained as a painter and now her practice encompasses painting, installation, sculpture and mixed media. With a career spanning over 40 years, she has held more than 50 solo exhibitions and participated in over 180 group shows globally. Borgelt's work is currently held in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia and Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, and in international museums such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA and New Zealand's Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Borgelt has been awarded global commissions including by Baker McKenzie for their Sydney offices in Barangaroo and AMP Capital at 123 Pitt Street, Sydney, and by Melco Crown Resorts, Macau, for their Morpheus (hotel) design by Zaha Hadid Architects. Her work is held in private collections across the United States of America, France, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Dubai, Morocco, United Kingdom, Germany, Myanmar, China and Mexico. Borgelt is the recipient of international art awards and residencies including a French Government Art Fellowship and Residency (1989) and the Muswellbrook Art Prize (2020). Borgelt has won the Peter Brown Memorial Travelling Art Scholarship,