Swiss-born, Cairns-based artist Claudine Marzik’s research on Ewamian Country has fostered deep investigation of the meandering lava tubes and cavernous rock formations within Undara Volcanic National Park in Far North Queensland, formed over 190,000 years ago.
Marzik’s Undara Paintings responds to the awe and wonder of this landscape, referencing the voids shaped by volcanic eruption, the pattern, deposition, graffiti, and textures appearing on the ceiling and the walls, and speleothem continually accumulating. The layers of the canvas surface are reworked and layered like strata of hardened lava.
Claudine Marzik, Undara Painting 28 (detail), 2023, acrylic on paper, 30 × 42cm. Photograph: Michael Marzik. Courtesy the artist and NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Queensland
NorthSite Contemporary Arts
1 September to 28 October 2023
Queensland
