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Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Marie Hagerty, Coupling III[/caption] Marie Hagerty has recently been selected for the?Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize?at Bendigo Regional Gallery for her work 'Coupling III', featured above. 
Check out her latest article in Box Magazine by Gina Fairley. Here is an excerpt from the article: For Canberra artist, Marie Hagerty it is the seductive ancient Indian text The Kama Sutra along with the emotionally raw paintings of Francis Bacon and teh work of renowned French sculptor, Auguste Rodin that inspires her; a sensual line-up, conjouring an ambiguous heartbeat deep within her paintings. Hagerty also notes that thematically and stylistically speaking her graphic yet primitive work references Bauhaus, Russian Suprematism and Constructivism. "Oh, are they sexy? I think they are", she laughs.? When describing the paintings of Hagerty most of us would gravitate towards words like cool abstraction, hip and edgy. While appropriate as descriptive terms, and in-sync with a kind of design rhetoric that has swept contemporary tastes in Australia over the past decade, this tone does not capture the sensuality and dark humour that laces Hagerty's paintings. They are ore than just a visual engagement. They implore a physical reaction.?
Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Marie Hagerty, Coupling III[/caption] Marie Hagerty has recently been selected for the?Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize?at Bendigo Regional Gallery for her work 'Coupling III', featured above. Check out her latest article in Box Magazine by Gina Fairley. Here is an excerpt from the article: For Canberra artist, Marie Hagerty it is the seductive ancient Indian text The Kama Sutra along with the emotionally raw paintings of Francis Bacon and teh work of renowned French sculptor, Auguste Rodin that inspires her; a sensual line-up, conjouring an ambiguous heartbeat deep within her paintings. Hagerty also notes that thematically and stylistically speaking her graphic yet primitive work references Bauhaus, Russian Suprematism and Constructivism. "Oh, are they sexy? I think they are", she laughs.? When describing the paintings of Hagerty most of us would gravitate towards words like cool abstraction, hip and edgy. While appropriate as descriptive terms, and in-sync with a kind of design rhetoric that has swept contemporary tastes in Australia over the past decade, this tone does not capture the sensuality and dark humour that laces Hagerty's paintings. They are ore than just a visual engagement. They implore a physical reaction.? 
