“Mutation, morphology, light, impermanence and incessant change are at the crux of much of my work. As human knowledge shifts, so does the material world, with matter constantly engaged in a process of change on every scale: growth, evolution and entropy.”

Marion Borgelt is a leading Australian artist known for her two and three-dimensional works. With a career spanning over 40 years, Borgelt’s work draws inspiration from universal themes: life cycles, cosmology, optics and phenomenology.
 
Borgelt creates highly crafted, visually spectacular works connecting human culture and nature, the constructed and organic worlds, micro- and macrocosms and the ever-present duality of light and dark. Drawing on her extensive experience with materials, including bees-wax, linen, felt, glass, pigment, stainless steel, wood, stone and organic matter, Borgelt mediates a creative intervention with originality and sensitivity: