Marisha Matthews is a South Australian based visual artist, working mostly in oils. Her practice draws attention to the fall of light on objects, transparency, surface and reflection. Her application of paint is both painterly and textured. Her subjects are lush and rich creations from everyday life; fruit, flowers, glass and silver objects but also the ordinary - succulent plants, a silver bucket, a broom, a lunch box, are all treated generously with paint revealing otherworldliness and luminance.  Since graduating from Adelaide Central School of Art with Honours in 2019, Marisha has completed a year-long residency at Pembroke School, in The Balnaves Enterprise Hub. She has collaborated with Debra Nangala Mcdonald, painting together a series called Two Women Dreaming. During 2020 Marisha completed a major commission for the Botanica Apartments, Glenside featuring magnolia flowers and local foliage in eight panels.  During 2019 she produced a series of five circular works which she describes as portals for viewing ordinary practices, in this case, the substances and surfaces of domestic cleanliness. These works, produced just before the pandemic depicted the human obsession with hand washing, antibacterials and hand sanitisers. Her sinks series 2018 depicted kitchen sinks as locations for meaning making. Each sink in the series contained items associated with divination, including chicken livers, bones and tea leaves.  Marisha is currently completing a residency at Loreto College, Marryatville SA, and is the curator of Loreto SpringArt. 
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