Raw (a dream)

‘Raw’ (a dream) original mixed media artwork on dung paper by Marijke Lambregtse.
This work is exploring a raw, symbolic visual language of vulnerability, protection, and endurance. The vibrant and luminous green figure is meant to read as both human and arboreal, its raised arms being a a gesture of both protection and exposure. Nestled in this tree-like form, the reclining blue figure quietly suggesting an intimate moment of dependence and care, reinforcing themes of shelter, interconnection and acceptance. The fragile symbols—bird, heart, and hovering red orbs—oscillate between hope for freedom and threat, while a figure coming out of the dark covered in net-like cloth and simplified house forms evoke ideas of home, constraint, and displacement. Scraping back the dark paint to create an unsettled background with direct almost childlike mark-making intensifies the emotional urgency of this artwork. And the feelings of eco-anxiety and displacement.
Rather than offering answers, this work asks the viewer to feel what it means to shelter and be sheltered in a world that no longer feels secure.
These small works are specifically made to raise funds for the Palestinian people and profits will go to @doctorswithoutborders.
This artwork can be easily framed by the collector or alternatively by Bluethumb
Frames in pictures are not included
Comes varnished, signed on the back with a stamp of authenticity

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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 arise from a growing eco-anxiety and a critical concern for the state of the world today. Shaped by direct encounters with climate change, pollution, displacement, and environmental injustice, the work responds to systems that prioritise profit, control, and exploitation over care and coexistence. She seeks to harmoniously merge message and aesthetics, using emotionally charged strikingly colorful, acrylic paint, recycled materials, text, and texture to confront viewers with both beauty and unease.

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.

Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Art Prize 2026
Lethbridge 2025 Small Scale Art Prize salon finalist
Finalist Abstraction Exhibition Petrie Terrace Gallery 2025/2024
Finalist in Lethbridge 2024/2023 Small Scale Art Awards Salon de Refusés
Finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Show 2024/2023
Finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize Salon des Refugees 2022
Finalist in the RQAS annual Exhibition 2023
Finalist in the Amore exhibition at Artprenr Gallery 2023
Finalist in the Queensland Figurative 2022
Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award in 2022, 21, 20 and 2019
Awarded the Power of Creativity Art Prize by Contemporary Curator Art Magazine in 2021
Highly Commended in the Abstraction Exhibition Royal Queensland Art Society 2021
Finalist in the Rotary Spectacular Brisbane in 2019 and 2018