Marie Elizabeth McMahon

Marie McMahon studied painting at the National Art School at East Sydney Technical College. In 1976 she joined Earthworks Poster Collective at the Tin Sheds at the University of Sydney and worked as a designer with Redback Graphix in Wollongong and Sydney during the 1980s. From 1988 she lived in the Northern Territory, working in Aboriginal art centres and as a remote area tutor. She taught drawing in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney until 2011. In 2010 her work was included in ‘Kent State–Four Decades Later’ at the Sydney University Art Gallery.

A number of McMahon's exhibitions were concerned with the natural environment of Northern Australia, specifically site, flora, social significance, cultural history and environmental effects. More recently she has exhibited works about Indochina and in particular about Cambodia. Her 2009 show at Damien Minton Gallery, ‘The Watery Kingdom’, was about Cambodia.