Marji Hill – Artist

Marji Hill – Artist

Marji Hill is a visual artist.  Painting has been a lifetime passion and her art training took place at what was formerly the Canberra School of Art.

Apart from completing a Master of Arts Degree in Anthropology at the Australian National University, Marji also completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Painting.

Marji has had eight solo exhibitions in Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney and has participated in various group shows.

Marji’s paintings are in many private collections both in Australia and overseas and she is represented in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Ballarat and Sydney campuses of the Australian Catholic University.

Oil Paintings

Marji’s large oil paintings explore themes like black-white

relations in Australia, Reconciliation, gold, Australian history

and the Australian landscape.

Eureka Stockade

One of her large paintings was included in the 2004-2005 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery’s Traveling Exhibition Eureka Revisited: the Contest of Memories. This exhibition traveled to Melbourne, Canberra, and Ballarat – part of the 150-year celebration of the Eureka Stockade.

Australian History

Landscape

Gold

Two of her paintings were commissioned by the Citigold Corporation.

One hung for many years in the foyer of Jupiters Casino in Townsville. This work celebrated the discovery of gold by an Aboriginal boy, Jupiter Mosman, in 1871 at Charters Towers.

The other is a portrait of Jupiter Mosman and hangs in the World Centre in Charters Towers in North Queensland.

Gouache On Paper

Marji’s artworks range from large oil paintings on canvas

to very small works on paper – gouache being her favorite medium.

These small works on paper are simple responses to land and sea environments.

Art Cards

Marji has built up a substantial collection of art cards based on small miniature paintings and painted with gouache.