A Mount Isa artist has found success with her melancholic artistic and glamour portraits.
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Member of Arts on Alma, Marjorie Lord, has been awarded a bronze award in the International Loupe Awards for her ‘Clayed’ exhibition that she hosted back in July, 2015.
Ms Lord was also nominated for the International Colours Award and the Spider Award for the same exhibition.
She explained the definition of her work as melancholic in the sense of heartfeltness and remembering.
“I try to get to the point where the subject is really reflecting on something,” Ms Lord said.
“One of my images, I was out at Georgie’s cattle station and we were looking at graves, a lot of them being children and mums. Georgie went to this melancholic place and so for her it was a place of remembrance.”
Ms Lord’s subjects were from Mount Isa and were painted in clay before captured in the photograph.
“I used the clay to get a statuette and stark look. It was like I was stripping away who they were and trying to just get that real inner feeling of remembrance,” she said.
“I like getting the expression out of people through my portrait work each telling their own individual story.”
Some of Ms Lord’s images were also created by layering different images through Photoshop.
“All of my work was created and captured in my studio and I see myself as an artist that uses a camera as my paintbrush,” she said.
“Sometimes people use the Photoshop loosely, but to do it properly it takes a lot of skill and I have self taught myself to do it and I am proud of how they have turned out.”
When Ms Lord first opened her exhibition back in July last year over 200 people attended Arts on Alma to view her unique artwork.
Her next exhibition will follow along the same theme of story telling with her new range of artwork called ‘The Discarded’.
She admits it is a bit confronting, focusing on parents discarded their children for drugs and women who are being discarded as brides.
Ms Lord’s ‘Clayed’ exhibition is still on display at Arts on Alma and ‘The Discarded’ exhibition should be displayed next year.