CLAUDINE MARZIK | ‘The Body Language of Plants No. 45’ | Acrylic on paper / framedThe Body Language Of Plants series developed over a few years while voluntarily working at the Australian Tropical Herbarium Cairns, (ATH) located at JCU. For archival purposes, part of my job was remounting a collection of plant species originally collected in Weipa on behalf of a Mining Company during the 1980s. The process of removing existing specimens of the original paper, left behind marks or stains caused by the organic plant material. The

Kongk yok inspires us to embrace our individuality and express ourselves boldly and confidently

We gather them and use them for story telling on the sand

researcher and arts administrator

Apuan ngurpayk kaazi maluya tadayka

Objects from this country are significantly different from those of much of the rest of Australia

In this work the seeds of the Wongai represent the beginnings of a family on another island

the two young men practise their skills

When you are in a boat

I worked at Julia Creek

and a fantasy novel The Heliotropians

The bearing of fruit represents a generation of children

CLAUDINE MARZIK | ‘Undara Archway 1’ | Acrylic on paper in box timber frame | 42 (h) x 30 (w) cm