Marté Szirmay b. 1946
Works
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Marté SzirmaySquall Ed. 1/10, 2024Cast bronze12 x 20 cm -
Marté SzirmayLost Rivers, 2024Bronze13 x 26 cm
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Marté SzirmayTumbling in the Wind. ed. 1/10, 2024Cast bronze17 x 11 cm
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Marté SzirmayWhispers in the Wind Ed.1/10, 2024Cast bronze8 x 15 cm
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Marte SzirmayFly Away, 2023Lost wax silicon bronze4/5 x 9.7 x 9.7 cm
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Marté SzirmayBreeze Ed. 1/10, 2024Cast bronze8.5 x 11.5 cm
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Marté SzirmayEarthlight - Dawn/Dusk 3/3, 2022Bronze37.5 x 50 x 16 cm
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Marté SzirmayGalactic Centre, 2022Bronze25 x 11 x 21 cm
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Marté SzirmayGalactic Voyager, 2022Bronze33.5 x 11 x 28 cm
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Marté SzirmayRing of Fire, 2024, 2024Bronze8 x 40 x 40 cm
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Marté SzirmayPostcard from the Galaxy, 2022Bronze3.7 x 3.7 x 12.7 cm
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Marté SzirmaySun Returns, 2022Bronze31 x 10 x 41 cm
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Marté SzirmayCirclet of Dreams, 2021Cast bronze11 x 14 cm
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Marté SzirmayRescue Kit 1, 2021Cast bronze21 x 21 cm
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Marté SzirmaySolar Flares, 2021Bronze38 x 40 x 31 cm
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Marté SzirmaySouthern Lights, 2021Bronze31 x 31 x 20 cm
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Marté SzirmaySun Spot, 2021Bronze34 x 27 x 12 cm
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Marté SzirmayLAND SEA SKY, 2019Cast bronze7.5 x 7.5 cm
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Marté SzirmaySprout - Beginner, 2019Bronze90 cm circumference
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Marté SzirmayConnected, 2017Bronze19.5cm diameter
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Marté SzirmayCloud Dome, 2024Bronze30 x 40 cm
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Marté SzirmayEbb & Flow, 2024Bronze34 x 34 cm diameter
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Marté SzirmayWestcoast Sunday - Terns, 2014Bronze12.5 x 12.5 cm
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Marté SzirmayTorn, 2013Sand cast bronze, Unique44 x 10 x 43 cm
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Marté SzirmayChildren of MauiBronze9 x 9 cm
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Marté SzirmayDuplicityCast bronze18.5 x 10 cm
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Marté SzirmayHeavenly BlueBronze9 x 9 cm
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Marté SzirmaySeed & PodBronze6.5 x 11 cm
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Marté SzirmayTouch the Sun - Edition 3/3Bronze14 x 37 cm
Biography
Marté Szirmay, Mt Roskill, Auckland, 1987. From the series: Artists' portraits, Adrienne Martyn
Marte Szirmay was born in Budapest, Hungary and arrived in New Zealand in 1957. She graduated with a DFA (Hons) Senior Scholar from the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts in 1968 and Dip.Teach in 1970 from Auckland Secondary Teachers College.
In 1971 and 1972 Marte was the Frances Hodgkin’s Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin and was awarded QEII Arts Council Grants in 1973, 1978 and again in 1982, the year during which she was the visiting Artist at the Johnson Atelier, Princeton, New Jersey, and the following year saw her at the Governors State University, Illinois, USA.
Since 1970, Marte has had numerous solo exhibitions within New Zealand and internationally she has participated in Group exhibitions in London, Budapest, Helsinki, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Sweden, Crete, Spain, and Australia. She is represented in private and public collections throughout the world.
Szirmay works mostly in series; a series is complete when the artist realises that she has begun to explore another direction. The new series grows organically from the old - her creative process is metamorphic. For her, sculpture is a means of ‘paying homage to the organic’.
Her works vary considerably in size. She has created architectural sculpture, sculpture for city squares, wall reliefs and free-standing objects ranging from person-size to hand-size. Szirmay has been represented in ARTIS Gallery since 2012. Szirmay is also a founding member of the Medal Artists of New Zealand (MANZ). ARTIS hold an exhibition for this group every two years – the most recent being ‘Origins’ in March 2025.
Marte Szirmay’s Smirnoff Centennial sculpture (1969) is in Lumsden Green, Newmarket, Auckland.
Exhibitions
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MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand
Our Nature 14 March - 3 April 2023ARTIS Gallery is the host gallery for Medal Art New Zealand (MANZ) – a group of New Zealand’s leading contemporary sculptors. This 2023 biennial exhibition has thirty artists presenting medals and /or small sculptures.Read more -
Elizabeth Rees & Marté Szirmay
The Backroad & Earthlight 13 September - 2 October 2022Elizabeth Rees has been exhibiting with ARTIS Gallery since 2011. Her work explores the relationship between the body, the mind and the environment in which we exist. This collection of new oil paintings by Elizabeth Rees marks the beginning of a new studio and lifestyle in the Bay of Islands. Fascinated by people from all walks of life in her Northland community, Rees began to assemble her impressions and visual notes on the colours, vegetation and pace of life in her new environment. Marté Szirmay has long been regarded as one of New Zealand’s most accomplished artists. Her work is represented in private and public collections in New Zealand and abroad. Creating sculptures for Marté is about creating a language of signs and symbols that transcend regional, cultural and social limitations. This new series of bronze works pays tribute to our Sun.Read more -
MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand
A Place to Stand 30 March - 18 April 2021This 2021 biennial exhibition has thirty-one artists presenting medals and /or small sculptures. A diversity is demonstrated in the works that make up this exhibition and is also reflective of...Read more -
MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand
About Face 19 March - 14 April 2019ARTIS Gallery is the host gallery for Medal Art New Zealand (MANZ) – a group of New Zealand’s leading contemporary sculptors. This 2019 biennial exhibition has thirty-four artists presenting medals...Read more
