Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie | Thick Dusk

Description

Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie was the winner of the 2024 Revival Emerging Artist Prize

ARTIST BIO:

Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie’s visual arts and anthropology studies were followed by a decade long research career in coastal zone management in the Philippines. She moved to Australia over 20 years ago and lived in Yeppoon, in Canberra, and currently resides in Cairns where she is reconnected with the tropics and her art practice reignited by the fragile beauty of tropical coastal environments. Her acrylic landscapes are based on memories and impressions from fieldwork, travel and contemplation.

Maharlina held her first solo show at the Cairns Art Gallery last year as a recipient of an artist fellowship award supported by the Cairns RSL Club, followed by another local solo show at Vivo’s Artroom. She was a finalist in the 2023 Paddington Art Prize. With a focus on environmental issues, she has participated over the years in several group shows in Cairns, as well as in Brisbane with the Queensland Regional Art Awards as a 2021 finalist and, in 2024, as a selected exhibiting emerging artist.