Marian Drew

Brisbane-based Marian Drew (b. 1960) is a photographic artist and Adjunct Associate Professor in Photography at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her art practice explores relationships to time, domesticity, history and landscape, and acknowledges the pictorial relationships of landscape and history to cultural identity. After graduating from the Canberra School of Art in 1984, Drew was awarded a German government scholarship to study experimental photography at Kassel University. Since then, she has held over 40 solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally and her work has been included in over 100 group shows. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, National Gallery of Australia, Fonds National D’Art Contemporain, Paris, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. As an educator, she taught at Queensland College of Art from 1986 to 2016 and was Director of the Photography Program. Drew represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1993, the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China in 2010 and at the Photography Biennale, Photoquai in Paris in 2011. Her first monograph was published in 2006 by the Queensland Centre for Photography.