River Memory

Michelle Molinari

River Memory

$3,600.00

$3,600.00

2026 – Original

oil on canvas.

50cm x 50cm

This work moves from historical symbolism to an everyday encounter. A water dragon sits within a still life arrangement, backed by a photograph of the Brisbane River—an image drawn from my daily commute and the steady abundance of water dragons along the riverbank. By placing the animal into the conventions of still life, abundance shifts to something observed, repeated, and quietly persistent.

About the Artist

Learn more about Michelle Molinari

Michelle Molinari is a painter, taxidermist and installation artist whose practice explores notions of death, fleeting beauty and the act of commemoration. Drawing upon traditions of taxidermic representation and European still life painting, Molinari works across various media to blur the boundaries between the inanimate and corporeal and to question ideas of aesthetic value.

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Exhibitions Featuring Michelle Molinari

Abundance: The Pleasure of Plenty

10 March - 1 April 2026

Correlations: From the Past to the Present

1 April - 26 April 2025

Anthropocene

8 August - 26 August 2023

Lives of Their Own

7 February - 4 March 2023

Reflect

3 August - 21 August 2021

Inspirational Gift Ideas

11 December - 23 December 2020

STILL

17 November - 5 December 2020

30 x 30

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Mimesis

4 June - 22 June 2019

A Journey into Dark Essentiality

26 February - 2 March 2019

An online exhibition

1 February - 23 February 2019

Posthumous Tableaux

14 July - 9 September 2018