Marion Abraham

Guided by feminist instinct and a dark sense of humour, Abraham’s paintings meld romantic and escapist notions, familiar clichés and art historical references with the muddiness of the natural world. ‘Staying with the trouble’ is a phrase from writer Donna Haraway that guides Abraham’s approach in the studio. It’s about remaining present with the complexity of living and dying on a damaged planet, rather than trying to resolve or escape it. In Abraham’s work, this means making space for unlikely connections–what Haraway calls ‘making kin’–and embracing the messy, entangled relationships that come with all of that.

Parallel to those themes, the artist’s practice also operates as a rebuttal to seductive feelings of despair and the mysterious longing she feels between her family’s Lebanese lineage and birthplace in Molesworth, Tasmania. These underlying tensions lead her works from lightness into darkness, then back again, navigating ideas of the soul, reimagining power structures.

Abraham holds a BA of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne (2021) and a previous undergraduate degree in Politics from UTAS (2010). She was awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales Paris Cité residency for October – December 2025, and is one of ten artists chosen to present work at Hobart Current: HERE, opening in November 2025 at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Abraham is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.