Marketa Kemp
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Marketa Kemp

Australia • 1973

Biography

Marketa Kemp is a Melbourne based artist, born in Prague (Czech Republic), now living permanently in Melbourne. She has been mentored by various artists in Australia and overseas, including The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Greece, and an Australian artist, Wayne Viney, who introduced her to printmaking in 2017. Printmaking has quickly become Marketa's passion. She is especially drawn to the unique quality of the mono (one off) print and the level of unpredictability the process presents. Recently she has been exploring more unconventional mediums, while remaining faithful to the classical beauty of figure drawings, predominantly in charcoal. Marketa's work is always evolving, fluid, and a generally open process. She approaches the work with a particular idea in mind, but allows the work to develop organically and freely, without being too fixated on the final result.

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