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Welcome to the official website of Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly, a contemporary multidisciplinary artist.

Explore her diverse body of work, including original paintings, detailed drawings, immersive sculptures, and innovative installations. Dive into a world of imagination and creativity, and feel free to get in touch with comments, questions, or commission requests.

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SEPTEMBER 2026

Marianna opened her solo exhibition PELLSCAPE at ArtAmill gallery in Vinyols, returning to the place where she did an art residency in 2025. PELLSCAPE continues until 25th October

"The title PELLSCAPE combines the Catalan word pell - skin - with landscape. The idea began with thinking about skin as a kind of landscape. We normally think of landscape as something outside ourselves - mountains, rivers, fields and horizons. But our own skin is also a territory. It stretches, folds, wrinkles, breaks, heals and sheds. It records time and experience.

That idea became very connected to the way I made these paintings.I collect the dried acrylic paint that peels away from my palettes and studio surfaces. Instead of throwing these fragments away, I began using them in the paintings. They are literally the skins of previous paintings - carrying traces of colour, gesture and labour. They become something between skin, fossil and landscape.

I also like to begin some paintings through chance. I make spontaneous marks, sometimes with my eyes closed, without knowing exactly what I'm going to create. Then I look at what has happened and begin to develop an image from it. A mark might become a landscape. A landscape might suggest a face or a body, the work constantly flowing between abstraction and figuration where something accidental becomes recognisable - and then perhaps strange again. So there is a constant dialogue between control and chance, between the conscious and the subconscious." ( Exhibition Statement exerpt)

OCTOBER 2025

Marianna recently wrapped up a vibrant Art Residency at Roser de Foc , where she exhibited large-scale textile hides in a historic space full of arches and alcoves. With last-minute improvisation and a hot glue breakthrough, the work came together just in time. A playful installation featuring her sewing machine - suggested by Raquel, one of the residency’s visionary hosts - highlighted the spirit of Roser de Foc: a place where process is celebrated over polish, and art unfolds through dialogue, ritual, and shared living. The residency was a whirlwind of making, connecting, and showing work in progress.

During the Roser de Foc residency, Marianna led a mask-making workshop using recycled fabric remnants from my studio practice. Participants, mostly local residents of Vinyols, created imaginative masks after a short introduction to her Fabric Skins series. The session became a lively, collaborative space where people of all ages explored play, transformation, and the joy of making with simple materials.

Residency Blog

SEPTEMBER 2025

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SUMMER 2025

I Built a Website With My Bare Hands and a Bit of AI Magic!

This summer, I built this website - not as a portfolio, but as a digital studio: a ritual space, a constellation of fragments, and a site for work that resists tidy categorization. It resides on The Unstitute, under my full name, Marianna Magurudumian-O’Reilly. Long enough to resist quick consumption. Long enough to stumble over - like a speed bump on the road.

The studio is mostly hand-built, pieced together through experiment, repetition, and the occasional stroke of serendipity. Some pages were hand-coded in my Catalan home, accompanied by the quiet whirring of a fan as the heat outside climbed past forty degrees celsius. Others were shaped in collaboration with AI - at times uncanny, at times delightfully absurd - adding another layer of unpredictability to the process. The crooked edges remain, deliberately - a reminder that the work, like the studio itself, is alive, shifting, and always in motion. sometimes uncanny, sometimes absurd.

Work unfolds across fourteen pages: performance collaborations celebtating 100 years of Surrealism set at Maison André Breton, video shoots in France and Catalonia, sculptural installations, and exhibitions in Spain. Each page is a corner of the studio: provisional, evolving, alive. Contradictions live here: eco-rituals alongside body horror, gothic craft alongside activist jewelry, ancestral geometry alongside digital ghosts. AI entered as provocateur, not author, challenging and unsettling the process.

The digital studio is ongoing. It will glitch, shift, and evolve. Visitors are invited to wander, to explore without expectation. The unfinished is its own form of work. MM-O

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