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Marcus O'Donnell – Out of the garden

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Marcus O'Donnell
Out of the garden, 2026

Photopolymer photogravure
Edition of 10 + A/P
Image Size 46×38cm / Paper Size 46×38cm

Artist Statement
Out of the Garden is from a new series of work that extends my interest in mythologies, sexuality and landscape. Using images of museum statues and layered macro shots of urban gardens, the series explores the conjunction of opposites: the hard and the soft, the wild and the contained, the enduring and the ephemeral. 

Marcus O’Donnell (b.1960) is a Melbourne artist, academic and writer, who works across a range of traditional and digital print, photographic and multimedia processes. His Queer Saints series was featured as part of Baldessin Studio’s contribution to the 2026 Melbourne Art Print Fair edition.2 at Linden New Art. O’Donnell has been a member of the Baldessin Studio Committee of Management since 2024. 

@marcusod
marcusodonnell.com


Marcus O'Donnell
Out of the garden, 2026

Photopolymer photogravure
Edition of 10 + A/P
Image Size 46×38cm / Paper Size 46×38cm

Artist Statement
Out of the Garden is from a new series of work that extends my interest in mythologies, sexuality and landscape. Using images of museum statues and layered macro shots of urban gardens, the series explores the conjunction of opposites: the hard and the soft, the wild and the contained, the enduring and the ephemeral. 

Marcus O’Donnell (b.1960) is a Melbourne artist, academic and writer, who works across a range of traditional and digital print, photographic and multimedia processes. His Queer Saints series was featured as part of Baldessin Studio’s contribution to the 2026 Melbourne Art Print Fair edition.2 at Linden New Art. O’Donnell has been a member of the Baldessin Studio Committee of Management since 2024. 

@marcusod
marcusodonnell.com

To mark its 25th year, Baldessin Studio has embarked on a very special project—inviting 53 members of its community to create an editionable print for the Baldessin Studio 25th Anniversary Print Collection. Launching at Sydney Contemporary, the collection is a celebration of the incredible community of artists who engage in the life of the studio, as well as a fundraiser to ensure the organisation can continue its work and sustain its vision, “to inspire and enable innovative printmaking whilst upholding the Baldessin ethic of fostering creativity in all forms”.

Launch / Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Sept 3-6th 2026 Exhibition / Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Nov 10–8th 2026