ARTIST BIO
Marnie Tomczyk is an artist and writer living and working on Dharug and Gundungurra land in the Blue Mountains. She is completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) at the National Art School, where her practice employs strategic incompleteness and the interstitial as feminist methodology. Her work explores how bodies resist and reshape the systems that try to define them.
Her forthcoming solo exhibition A Tender Archaeology will be presented at Braemar Gallery, Springwood in October 2026. Recent group exhibitions include Mixed Dozen at ACU McGlade Gallery, The Divide at Alpha House Gallery, and West: Perspective Place at Mounted ARI.
In 2025, Tomczyk won the Artscene Printmaking Prize and the Rosey Ravelston Art Prize. Her editioned print To Witness a Break is held in the collections of RMIT, Curtin University, the University of Southern Queensland, and the National Art School.
She is one-third of the intergenerational collective White Cross Zines and has been profiled in MTNS MADE magazine. She teaches printmaking workshops at Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre and is an active member of MTNS Zine Club. She is currently undertaking Lenka Clayton's ARiM residency, exploring artmaking and caregiving in motherhood.
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Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts – National Art School, Sydney (current)
Bachelor of Arts – University of Sydney, 2006
Solo Exhibitions
A Tender Archaeology, Braemar Gallery, Springwood (forthcoming Oct ‘26)
Group Exhibitions
2026
Mixed Dozen, ACU McGlade Gallery, Strathfield
2025
The Grad Show 2025, National Art School, Darlinghurst
The Divide, Alpha House Gallery, Newtown
Blue Mountains Print Prize, Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre, Glenbrook
Rosey Ravelston Art Prize, Rosey Ravelston Gallery, Lawson
2024
Showcase: Margaret Olley Drawing Week, National Art School, Sydney
2023
Forced Parameters, LSG Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
West: Perspective Place, Mounted ARI, Springwood
Blue Mountains Print Prize, Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre, Glenbrook
Awards & Prizes
2025
Artscene Printmaking Prize, National Art School
Rosey Ravelston Art Prize, Open Category
Publications & Media
2026
'An Imaginary Library on Bringelly Road', The Western
2025
MTNS MADE exchange – artist profile
Collections
2025
20x20 Print Exchange: RMIT, University of Southern Queensland, Curtin University, National Art School
2024
National Art School Drawing Department
Residencies
ARiM (Artist Residency in Motherhood) – current
Professional Practice
2026
'Exploring Printmaking' (term classes), Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre, Glenbrook
'Exquisite Creatures' (collaborative workshop), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
2023
Panellist, West: Perspective/Place artist roundtable, Mounted ARI, Springwood