Marius von Brasch

Biography

Marius von Brasch is a German-British painter who completed his practice-based PhD research in Fine Art Painting at Winchester School of Art. He was awarded Abbey Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome in 2013, exhibits widely and has a background in literature and psychotherapy. He lives on the Isle of Wight, UK.

His work is in the Priseman Seabrook Collection, the University of Essex Modern and Contemporary British Art Collection and private collections.

‘In my painting, drawing and digital video I work with those transformative influences that shape perception of reality and being with otherness: creative and destructive filters of associations, memories and anticipation, both personal and historical.
In my practice I aim to give body or ‘face’ to an invisible or liminal space in between outside and inside. Surfaces, paint and tools are the materials and ground that mediate this process of relating.
I refer frequently to aspects of ancient and modern painting and imagery that deal with similar interests on a historical timeline.’

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2019 Liminal,  Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport

2019 Ennui Refigured (with Freya Purdue), APT Gallery, Deptford. London

2017 Illumination, West Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (with Howard Hardiman)

2012 Distance however near it may be, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester

Group

2020 Beyond Other Horizons, Palatul Culturii, Iaşi, Romania

2019 Made in Britain. Priseman Seabrook Collection, Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk, Poland 

2017 Ex Roma IV, APT Gallery, Deptford, London

2015 The Drawing Process, West Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight

2015 Belief, Depozitory, Isle of Wight

2015 A garden at the foot of every tree, The Studio at Rookley Manor, Isle of Wight

2013 Friday 13th, Award Holders Exhibition at Gallery British School at Rome, Rome

2012 Visioneca, Experimental Film Festival, Isle of Wight

2012 Practice-based Projects, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester

2011 Rendition, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover

2011 Drawn, Five Years, London

2011 Feint, The Rag Factory, London

2010 Out & About, Aspex Gallery Portsmouth, film screening in conjunction with the exhibition The Great Outdoors, Portsmouth

2009 Becoming/, Link Gallery at the University of Winchester, Winchester

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About this work

The chosen pieces for this show are inspired by medieval alchemical book illuminations. At the centre of such imagery stands transformation, of materials, wounds and attitudes of what it could mean to ‘communicate’.

The small paintings are parts of an ongoing series, snapshots of imaginary transformations.

Blood, Rose, and Anemone refers to the myth of Adonis, a god relating to vegetation, desire and mourning.

Dew 1 is first of a series of three pieces, the title refers to a particular healing stage in alchemical transformation where mercurial water washes ‘dead’, redundant elements away.