Education

2006 
PhD, Monash University, Melbourne
1988 
Master of Arts (Visual Arts), City Art Institute (University of New South Wales), Sydney
1981 
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Gold, silver & rough diamonds, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2018
Sluice, Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat, Victoria2017
Bolt, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2013
Composite, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Slip, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Naples: The City Revisited, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
2009
Ascorbic, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Donna Marcus: Colour Studies, Mackay Artspace, Queensland
Donna Marcus: Re-Collections, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2007
Parlour, Sofitel, Collins Street, Melbourne
2006
Parlour, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Mining, Monash Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2004
Code, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Dozens, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Aluminium in Art, Gladstone Regional Gallery, Queensland
2003
Cover, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2002
Bucket or Jewels, Central Goldfields Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria
2001
Teamwork, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Round, McClelland, Langwarrin, Victoria
Flat, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
1998
As Practical as it is Beautiful: Cinderella by Jason, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1997
Home of Memories: Assemblagen und Objekte, Gallerie Tammen and Busch, Berlin, Germany
Pure Strong-lite, Gladstone Regional Gallery, Gladstone, Queensland
1996
99% Pure Aluminium, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
1995
Anchored Afloat, Australian Embassy, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2014
Domestic Bliss, Deakin University, Melbourne
2013
To be or to have presents, Sea Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
Opportunity Shop, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Ten Years of Things, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
Art/Life: Selected Works from the Shane & Sally Thompson Bequest, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
2012
Shared Vision, Griffith University (exhibition toured to six venues in Poland in 2011/2012)
2011
Australia Felix, Crane Arts Centre, Philadelphia, USA
Journeys through history, theory and practice, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart
2010
Australian Pavilion, World Expo Shanghai, China
White Hot, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
The Mayo Festival, St Margaret's School, Brisbane
The Stan and Maureen Duke Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
2009
Marcher sur les pelouses (Walk on the Grass), Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Nothing out of the ordinary, Nellie Castan Gallery (in conjunction with Dianne Tanzer Gallery), Melbourne
2008
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA
The Green Zone, Academy Gallery, Launceston, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
The Great Divide, Artisan, Brisbane
The Mayo Festival, St Margaret's School, Brisbane
Shandong Anniversary Exhibition/Queensland College of Art, Shandong College of Art, Jinan, China
2007
Smart Works: Design and the Handmade, Sydney, Powerhouse Museum, New South Wales
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
McClelland Survey + Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
La Femme Domestique, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2006
Found Out: Art from the Found Object, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, New South Wales
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
Conrad Jupiter's Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
If you were to collect…Elements of Abstraction, Deloitte, Melbourne
2005
McClelland Survey + Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
Eigmatic, Shandong Arts College, Jinan, China
2004
Temperature, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2003
McClelland Survey + Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, New South Wales
The dish ran away with the spoon: Exploring still life, Academy of the Arts Gallery, University of
Tasmania, Hobart
Montalto Sculpture Prize, Red Hill, Victoria
2002
Place/Displace, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane
Fathoming: Contemporary Australian Sculpture, RGAQ national touring exhibition
Transit Narratives, Centro per la Cultura e le Arti Visive Le Venezie, Villa Letizia, Treviso, Italy
2001
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria
Environmental Acts, Maroondah Art Gallery, Maroondah, Victoria
Fundere Sculpture Prize, Contemporary Sculptors Association, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, New South Wales
Virtually Furniture Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
2000
Moving Cities: Australian Artists in Berlin, Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Retrieved Object, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
Becton National Sculpture Exhibition, Gasworks, City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
1999
Organic, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
Howlong, Red Door Gallery, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Material and Beyond, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland (touring exhibition)
Hybrid Creatures, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Extreme Peripheries, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
The Post-Postcard Show, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
The Australian Tactile Exhibition, Customs House, Sydney, New South Wales
1998
Driven to Abstraction, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Overview, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
Salon des Refusee, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
Décor, Smith & Stonely, Brisbane
1997
Kleine Freuden, Galerie am Chamissoplatz, Berlin, Germany
Logan City Art Prize (recipient Sculpture Award), Logan Art Gallery, Queensland
Conrad Jupiter's Art Prize (Acquired), Gold Coast, Queensland
1999
First Draft 10th Anniversary Show, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
1996
Ready Wrapped and Self Sealed, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
Muse, Umbrella Studios, Townsville, Queensland
Tai Pei Sister City Exhibition, Tai Pei Town Hall, Taiwan
1993
On the Walls, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Install x 4, Tasmanian School of Art, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1992
Rapunzel Traditionen eines europaischen Marchenstoffes in Dichtung und Kunst, Gallerie IX, Berlin, Germany (toured in Germany and Scotland)
Dame Edna regrets she is unable to attend: an exhibition of Contemporary Australian Satirical Sculpture, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne + national tour
A Material World—Fibre, Colour, Pattern, Powerhouse Museum (Stage 1), New South Wales

Public Art Commissions

2019
Poise and Grace, Xiamen, China
2018
Plant, Gasworks Resdiences, Brisbane2016
Sponge, Joondalup Town Centre, Western Australia
Vapour, Zhengzhou, China (with Urban Art Projects, Shanghai)
2015
Propel, Gladstone Airport ( Art + Place supported by Queensland Government, Gladstone Regional Council , QAL Gladstone Airport )
Sift, Heneng, China (with Urban Art Projects, Shanghai)
2012
True North, Blue Water Sculpture Trail, Mackay, Queensland
2010
Re-entry, Federation Square, Melbourne
2009
Delphinus, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (with UAP, Brisbane)
Trickle, 400 George Street, Brisbane (curated by Jacqueline Amitstead)
Vivarium, Lanai, Mackay, Queensland (curated by Louise Martin Chew and Alison Kubler)
I Saw and Angel in the Marble and Carved to Set Him Free (in collaboration with Simon Laws), Musgrave Park, Labrador, Queensland (collection of Gold Coast City)
2006
Steam, Brisbane Square, Queensland
2005
Futurescope (in collaboration with Simon Laws), Ipswich Mall, Queensland
2003
Team A + Team B, Tallebudgera Outdoor Education Centre, Queensland

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2013
Australia Council, New York Residency
AIA Art +Architecture Commendation for True North
2008
Arts Queensland, Career Development Grant
2007
Australia Council, New Work Established Grant
QCA/Shandong College of Art Residency, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
Inaugural Global Arts/Sofitel Artist in Residence, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
2001
Australia Council Skills and Development Grant (London Studio Residency)
Arts Development Grant, Arts Queensland
1997
Parks Victoria Residency
Individual Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland
1995
Studio Residency Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, University of Tasmania
1988
DAAD German Government Scholarship
Project Grant. VACB Australia Council
1999
Parks Victoria Residency (awarded by GCCAG and Parks Victoria) 
1995
Studio Residency Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris May/June (UTAS)
1982
Australia Council, Individual Artist Grant

Selected Bibliography

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Backhouse, M. 'Donna Marcus', The Age Magazine, Issue 22, August 2006, p. 85
Betts, H. Home of Memory [ex. cat.], Galerie Tammen & Busch, Berlin, 1996
Brown, S. 'Five Gold Coast Artists', Periphery, Issue 32, Spring 1997, p. 26–29
Bullock, M, Memory Fragments: Visualising Difference in Australian History, Intellect Books, UK
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Cooper, T. Home and Away [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, 1994
Crane Arts Philadelphia/Griffith University, Australia Felix [ex. cat.], Crane Arts Philadelphia/Griffith University, USA, 2012
Davis, R. 'Giant sphere will celebrate ties to aluminium industry', The Gladstone Observer, 31st December 2012
Deakin University, Domestic Bliss, 2014 [ex. cat.]
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Kubler, A. Fathoming [ex. cat.], Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 2002
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McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park. McClelland Sculpture Survey [ex. cat.], McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria, 2007
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Collections

Artbank, Sydney
Ballarat University, Victoria
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection, Victoria
Deakin University, Melbourne
Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
Kunst von Frauen in der Sammlung Ulla Pietzsch, Berlin, Germany
Parks Victoria, Melbourne
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Sale Regional Gallery, Victoria
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Visy Art Collection, Melbourne
William Dobell Foundation, Sydney