Brisbane
Figurative abstract and conceptual mixed media artist. Marijke loves to use collage from recycled materials, texture and texts she makes up from reading poems and listening to songs she finds relevant.
Artworks: 54
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A work is born from a kind of confused emotion. The work is an attempt to elucidate that emotion.’ Puvis de Chavannes
‘An abstract language that reveals references to an aesthetic figuration with a surreal flavour. This is the art of Marijke Lambregtse, an Australian based contemporary artist of Dutch origin, who focuses her artistic research on the relationship between man and the world, in its most hidden aspects. Her paintings are often characterized by the presence of human-like figures, whose facial features vanish overwhelmed by fields of colour, annihilating gestural communication and leaving the latter in complete control of emotions.
An alternation of more gestural brushstrokes and more detailed and sharply described elements, give the work a pleasant dynamism. Looking at Marijke Lambregtse’s paintings, we feel out of place, in awe, as if we have crossed the threshold into another world and we are suddenly strangers. (Francesca Brunello)
Her recent abstract figurative works have been a reflection of the feelings of eco-anxiety she experiences especially when being at places where the effects of climate change and pollution are so immediately felt.
She tries to harmoniously merge message and aesthetics in her work. In addition to her emotionally driven strikingly colorful acrylic paints and recycled materials, text and texture play a crucial role in bringing this about.
A professional dancer, teacher and choreographer before crossing over to studying visual art and gaining a BVA majoring in sculpture at Griffith University in Brisbane she was awarded the Karl and Gertrude Langer Award which resulted in a solo exhibition at the Brisbane Town Hall gallery.
Since then she has been exhibiting regularly with several solo exhibitions, being a finalist in numerous art awards and has been widely collected in Australia and overseas.
Winner of the Peoples Choice Award in the Abstraction Exhibition RQAS 2022 at Petrie Terrace Art Gallery, Brisbane
Finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize Salon des Refusés 2022
Awarded the Power of Creativity Art Prize by Contemporary Curator Art Magazine in 2021
Highly Commended in the Abstraction Exhibition 2021 Royal Queensland Art Society
Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award in 2023, 22,21,20 and 2019 as well as a finalist in the Rotary Spectacular Brisbane in 2023, 2019 and 2018
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