Deborah Marks’s art practice includes painting, drawing, photography and collage. She is inspired by her interest in psychological aspects of the human condition. Her figurative artworks reside between representation and abstraction as an exploration of the ambiguity between surface and illusion. Deborah has exhibited with Defiance Gallery, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Stanley Street Gallery and Kunstverein Murnau, Germany, and most recently exhibited with Wagner Contemporary, Sydney. In 2007 she was awarded the National Art School Onslow Storrier Studio Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Her artwork is represented in both public and private collections. Deborah has been a finalist in the Kedumba Art Award, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Mosman Art Prize, the Blake Prize, the Korean/ Australian Arts Foundation Prize, the Brisbane Art Prize, the Manning Art Prize, the Naked and Nude Art Prize, The Calleen Art Award, the Lethbridge Art Prize, the Hunters Hill Art Prize and the Stanthorpe Art Prize. She was awarded the 2014 Kedumba Art Award, the 2015 & 2017 Hunter’s Hill Art Prize and the 2021 Lethbridge Art Award.

Deborah holds a Master of Fine Arts degree. She has lectured at the National Art School Drawing Department in Observational Drawing in the BFA Program since 1999.