In 1999, with no dependents, and under the inspiration of Ruth Hadlow of RMIT, she returned to studies in Art, and completed a 3 year full time Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) and two years part time, graduating with first class honours, at RMIT.
She now operates from a shared warehouse of studios at Clifton Hill Melbourne on exhibition and commission work, teaches art to children with special needs, and is an active member of several amateur and professional artists’ associations. She has participated in exhibitions from 2006, and won the Tina Wencher Prize in the ASV Annual Exhibition in 2009. Her recent exhibition at Hawthorn’s Town Hall Gallery has resulted in many sales.
Marija’s activities in the ASV include active Committee membership, and Coordination of the ASV Annual Exhibitions in 2009 and 2010.
She observes in retrospect that her term at University was a vital step in widening her artistic appreciation as well as teaching physical skills. Her subsequent emergence as an artist involves portrayal and regeneration of her own life experiences: much of it concerned with the impact of the human footprint on a fragile natural world.
Whilst working in bronze, steel, clay and resin for her commissioned work, Marija prefers to re-use and reinvent everyday materials to emphasize the cyclical nature of life: “same atoms – different considerations”: to recycle, rather than create further waste. For example, she re-uses discarded plastic bags, shredded and crocheted to represent an apple, to create objects with their own message.
We wish Marija every success in her unfolding career.
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