ABOUT

Marylou Verberne is a photographic artist based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria, Australia. Her practice explores landscape, environmental change and the traces of human intervention, with a particular interest in how the past remains present in the places around us and how photography can alter the way familiar landscapes are seen.

Much of her work develops through repeated visits to places close to her home, as well as those encountered through travel. Marylou works with conventional and infrared photography, intentional camera movement, stitching and other material processes. Research, observation and experimentation are central to her practice, allowing changes in both the landscape and her understanding of it to become part of the work.

Fire and regeneration, together with the marks left by mining and extraction, form part of an ongoing enquiry into what remains visible, what disappears, and how knowledge of the history of a place can change the way it is seen.

Marylou is completing a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.