People walk through your life, some stay a while, others not long enough.
I use a wide variety of materials and processes to create artworks that are characterised by the collage techniques of layering.
I often work with site specific artefacts that I usually recycle and repurpose in an adaptive creative practice that involves carving wood, beating copper, casting and much more.
While my materials and processes are constantly changing, my themes always explore loss or memories that create snapshots in time. They reflect the transient and impermanent liminality of life, giving life its value.
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Whitsundays, Queensland.
Whitsundays, Queensland.
Melbourne Street North Adelaide, South Australia.
South Australian Living Artist Festival.
Mary Ann Santin will invite celebrated artists to join her in an installation of artworks on shop fr...
Melbourne Street North Adelaide, South Australia.
Melbourne Street North Adelaide, South Australia.
Cuthouse clients have given their X-Rays for Mary Ann Santin to transform into artworks.
Melbourne Street North Adelaide, South Australia.
People walk through your life, some stay a while, others not long enough.
I use a wide variety of materials and processes to create artworks that are characterised by the collage techniques of layering.
I often work with site specific artefacts that I usually recycle and repurpose in an adaptive creative practice that involves carving wood, beating copper, casting and much more.
While my materials and processes are constantly changing, my themes always explore loss or memories that create snapshots in time. They reflect the transient and impermanent liminality of life, giving life its value. My topics of interest are best described as something beneath the surface, messing with that temporal space between being and nothingness.
Mary Ann Santin is an Australian interdisciplinary artist who spends her time between arts projects in Adelaide, South Australia and an artist run initiative in Queensland’s Whitsundays. Creating installations of paint and object, her work explores themes of memory, loss and the liminality of life.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, her family relocated to South Australia to restore dilapidated Victorian era houses, and it is this passion for renovation that explains much of an artistic interest in reconfiguring and giving new life to the discarded and unwanted.
A year-long exchange to Japan, led her to business studies and a career in marketing, including a postgraduate at NYU, work at London’s DMBB Advertising and at the BBC. On her return to Australia, she worked for the Alzheimer’s Association, promoting recounts of carers’ experiences and literature around memory and loss.
Having these experiences as catalysts, Santin returned to artistic studies and completed a Bachelor of Visual Art at the prestigious Adelaide Central School of Art, and a Master of Visual Art and Studio Practice at the University of South Australia.
Santin has worked on placemaking initiatives and sculpture biennials throughout Australia. The work has featured in public spaces including the Adelaide International Airport, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, on Adelaide's city street verges and in the Australian outback.
She recently established studios in the Whitsundays, Queensland, creating community activations and curating visual art events for the Whitsundays Arts Festival.
Santin is an award-winning artist who has received grants and commissions from a variety of institutions, such as the State Library of South Australia, City of Adelaide, and Whitsundays Regional Council. She was shortlisted for several major art awards in Australia including the SALA Contemporary Art Prize, Waverley Art Prize and is a winner of the Helpmann Academy Award and the Oz Minerals Prize.
Her work has been exhibited in both commercial galleries and institutional museums, such as Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide and No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, the Art Gallery of South Australia and can be found in corporate and private collections around the world.
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