Honorable Mention / 2023 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Photographer
  Marzena Wasikowska, Australia
• Studio
  Marzena Wasikowska Studio
• Website
  https://www.marzenawasikowska.com/
• Instagram
  marzena_wasikowska

My work draws attention to the pressing issue of Climate Change. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, latent changes in the Earth's eco systems took effect. We failed to perceive, in darkness of awareness-time passed. Timothy Morton's Hyper Object is a fitting term. Developing with a slowness that's hard to perceive, in no particular location, in no particular year - Global Warming is finally manifest in the melting of icecaps and sea level rise; unusual weather patterns detrimental to coastal infrastructure and human life. Water - through excess or its lack is the heart of the issue.

Marzena Wasikowska has sustained a creative practice in portrait and landscape photography since graduating in 1987 from the ANU School of Art and Design. The continuing themes of her work are a concerned with visualising the impacts of climate change on the populated coastal environment, inspired by undertaking field trips nationally and in the USA, Norway and New Zealand. She has been published in contemporary photography journals, and has exhibited both in Australia and overseas. In 2023 she was one of ten notable professionals honoured by the Polish Australian Business Forum.

Awards Critics Choice, Lens Culture 2021 finalist
NPG-NPPP 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2021 finalist