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Artist Biography

Marcella Ho is a visual artist born and based in Sydney/ Eora with a Bachelor (Honours) of Design in Photography and Situated Media from the University of Technology, Sydney. The foundation of her practice is photography but she pushes the boundaries of image-making by expanding into other mediums like digital art and video-based works. 


Digital decay is the core of her practice, expressing the mental recklessness of her anxiety and depression that underpins her process. The abstraction in Ho’s artworks is the direct result of her practice, where the original image source becomes no longer recognisable. 


There is a sensibility of abstract expressionism in the works framed by the digital space where digital programs and tools are at the core of Ho’s practice. The abstract visual imagery of her works derives from the method of processing the digital image within itself until the original image source becomes no longer recognisable. Bounds and restrictions are in place during the making of the works where her perfectionist tendencies are relinquished to let the process direct the final result. Repeating an image into a closed circuit cycle of reproduction resulting in corrupted glitch imagery parallels and illustrates the paralysing nature of her mental health. 

Education

 

2017: BACHELOR OF DESIGN (HONOURS) IN PHOTOGRAPHY

University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)

  • Supervised under Cherine Fahd

 

2016: BACHELOR OF DESIGN IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND SITUATED MEDIA (PSM)

University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)​

Selected Exhibitions

 

2023   Good things in small packages, Bad News Gallery, Wollongong

2020   For Your Pleasure, Sydney (online, recipient of City Of Sydney Grant) 

2020   Arte en Casa | Adultos, The Collector's Club, Quito, Ecuador (online)

2020   Love, Matilda, Goodspace, Sydney (co-curated)

2019   Botanical: Spring, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2019   Wishing You Were Here, Goodspace, Sydney

2019   disrupt vol.1.1: an exhibition, UTS Library, Sydney 

2017   Honours, UTS Art Gallery, Sydney

2016   Fictions, The Old Rum Store, Sydney

2015   Found, Central Park, Sydney

Awards 

 

2021   Remagine Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby (finalist) 

Collections 

 

Private Collection in Teramo, Italy

Private Collection in Sydney, Australia

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