Review Ingrid Hoffmann
The artworks in Dialogue pervade their domain with harmonious and silent conversation. Ceramic forms find counterparts in abstracted shapes on canvas, colours complement, interaction is serene.
Review Art Monthly Stephen Naylor
THE TOWNSVILLE-BASED UMBRELLA STUDIOS began as an artist-run-space in 1986, and staked a claim of being the first professional artist organisation north of Brisbane.
Opening speech Maurices ORiorden Past Editior Art Monthly
There’s three words that come to mind in thinking about this exhibition; the first one is commitment. Firstly, there’s the idea of commitment to a collaboration, or as Claudine and Tijn have described it, their artistic marriage.
Media relase _Far North_ PTRG
Abstract paintings dominate the exhibition Far North which is showing at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery over the summer period. How timely as the wet we are currently experiencing is one subject of Claudine Marzik’s paintings.
Invitations 2006-14
This collaborative installation of ephemeral sculpture and paintings, executed in a variety of media, beautifully captures the poignant and under-represented North Queensland landscap.
Interview Denis Carter
CAIRNS artist Claudine Marzik has won the prestigious international Waterhouse Natural Science Art prize run by the South Australian Museum.
Essay Barbara Dover
The natural world has always fascinated us, challenged us and captured our imagination. We seek knowledge and pleasure as well as reassurance and revelation from our environment, often altering or even transforming it in this process.
Collection CRG
The Gallery has purchased a major painting from accomplished local painter Claudine Marzik, a resident of Cairns (Smithfield( and long-time supporter of Cairns Regional Gallery. Marzik has an extensive exhibition history, with shows throughout Australia and internationally (Japan and Switzerland) and has been the recipient of numerous art awards locally, statewide and nationally.
Catalogue Umbrella Studio
The natural world has always fascinated us, challenged us and captured our imagination. We seek knowledge and pleasure as well as reassurance and revelation from our environment, often altering or even transforming it in this process.
Catalogue Essay _Far North_ Ingrid Hoffmann Arts writer
The top-end sweep of Australia from November to April is a melange of moist atmospheres, of rain-steeped heavens and verdant environments. During other months, aridity will replace a colour swatch of green with charcoal-streaked bone, tan and brown.
Catalogue _Seed to Seed_ Kick Arts Contemporary Arts Centre Cairns
Working intuitively, Claudine Marzik and Tijn Meulendijks allow the inherent properties of plant materials to guide their creative process. From childhood in their respective countries of Switzerland and The mid careers, both found solace and peace in nature, and now in their mid careers, both artists return to the natural world for release and inspiration.
Catalogue _Far North_ Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townnsville
Claudine Marxik has forged a name for herself as one of north Queensland's most prominent artists. Marzik is a dedicated practitoner and is represented in Perc Tucker Gallery collection.
Book SEED TO SEED
paintings and sculptures Claudine Marzik and Tijn Meulendijks photography Michael Marzik
Article Bernadette AshlyTownsville Bulletin Arts Critic
CAIRNS artists Claudine Marzik and Tijn Meulendijks reflect laterally on the natural environment of North Queensland in Germinating, Growing, Wilting, revealting the poetry inherent in the landscape and its botanical diversity.
