Exploring The Connections Between Body and Landscape

“All that I am comes through in my art. My journey in medicine, my career as an artist, my experiences as a mother, and my life as an immigrant all weave together in my creative practice.”
— Marisabel
An artist with curly gray hair sitting in a rocky outdoor setting surrounded by colorful abstract paintings on easels and canvases, with various painting supplies nearby.
A person standing outdoors in a forest holding a large abstract painting in front of their face. The person is wearing black pants, gray shoes, and appears to have painted legs. The background features trees and greenery.

Bio

Marisabel Gonzalez (b. 1973, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Sydney-based artist working in painting and installation. Her practice explores the relationship between the body and landscape, drawing on her experience as a medical doctor and sonographer.

Gonzalez practised medicine in Venezuela before migrating to Australia, where she subsequently trained in sonography. Her experience of moving between countries, professions and languages informs her growing interest in the in-between and how it shapes identity and belonging.

Years of working with ultrasound have shaped how she approaches layers, textures, and boundaries. In her paintings, forms can suggest both bodily structures and terrain without settling into either. She works with stitching, erasure, collage and other interventions that leave earlier marks and materials visible. Colour helps establish the atmosphere of a work, while changes to the surface allow her to explore the effects of time and memory. These concerns also extend into installation.

Gonzalez has presented solo exhibitions at LEDA Gallery, Newcastle (2026), Gallery Lane Cove (2025), Hake House (2024 and 2023), Curl Curl Creative Space (2020) in Sydney, and Arianne Paffrath, Düsseldorf (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at NSW Parliament House and Manly Art Gallery and Museum (2019), and ASD in The Hague (2017).

She has been a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize (2021), Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (2024 and 2025), and St Columba’s Art Prize (2025 and 2026). She won the Collabor8 Women’s Art Prize (2023) and was selected as a semi-finalist for Lucca Biennale Cartasia in Italy (2024).

Her work is held in private and corporate collections internationally, including Barclays Private Bank in Sydney, Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost in Düsseldorf, and Axicorp corporate collections in Singapore and London.

Gallery Representation:

Hake House of Art, Sydney

Atom Art Advisory, United Kingdom

Trajectory

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