Rozemarijn Westerink (1982, The Netherlands)
Drawings and animation film
"The body and the garden share the ability to visualise a desire for a natural inner space, which remains both physical and fluid."
Rozemarijn Westerink studied at ArtEZ in Arnhem (BA) and St. Joost in Den Bosch (MA). She won the Buning Brongers Prize in 2006 and in 2023 the Open Call Zadkine, initiated by the Dutch Embassy and the Zadkine Museum in Paris.
Westerink creates drawings with pen and ink, building them up layer by layer, much like the way she makes stop-motion animated films, bringing the drawn worlds to life. From these films, she develops spatial works in resin, ceramics and marble.
In her work, she focuses on the landscape - particularly the garden as well as the sea - and the female body. Westerink considers both the body and the garden as metaphors for an inner space that is tangible, fluid, and transient.
For the municipality of Amersfoort, she created a mural in a bicycle tunnel and designed a sound barrier above it. Recently, she made an animated film for the Zadkine Museum in Paris, as a contemporary reflection on the iconic sculpture 'The Destroyed City' by Ossip Zadkine. This film has been shown in Paris and the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam. In 2026, she was an artist-in-residence at Marble Residency Pyrgos (GR) in a master-apprentice program for six weeks.
05.10.2026 - 09.10.2026
Renovation mural Liendertsetunnel
commissioned by the municipality of Amersfoort
28.06.2026 - 30.06.2026
External examiner at ArtEZ University of the Arts
30.03.2026 - 10.05.2026
Mondriaan Fund - K.F. Hein Fund - Platform ACCT
09.06.2025 - 10.06.2025
Contemporary print fair
06.05.2025
Cascade and Garden series now part of collection Leiden University Libraries
08.05.2025 - 23.05.2025
Guest-lecturer at ArtEZ University of the Arts
26.01.2025 - 23.02.2025
Duo exhibition with Lenneke van der Goot
18.12.2024
Installation of commissioned work
i.c.w. Marisa Rappard
02.03.2024
Exhibition Rêves en Ligne open from 08-01:00 AM
16.02.2024
Langs lijnen volg ik de realistische fantasie van Rozemarijn Westerink - NL
01.02.2024 – 04.02.2024
Projections - booth
with Art Gallery O-68
20.10.2023
(Ver)dwalen in een beladen landschap - NL
By Janita Baron
28.09.2023
Verdwalen in de ‘tuinen’ van Westerink - NL
By Gitte Brugman
Galerie Getekend - Heerenveen
18.08.2023
Groupshow curated by Arno Kramer
Part of the Drawing Research Network
27.07.2023
De populariteit van Zadkine’s ‘Jan Gat’ - NL
By Sandra Smets
23.03.2023
Press release by Atelier Néerlandais
Rozemarijn Westerink (1982, The Netherlands)
What does it look like when you walk in a dream?
In her drawings and animated films, Rozemarijn Westerink explores how a personal experience or the sensation of a specific moment can becomne universal and recognisable to the viewer.
She focuses on the landscape - particularly the garden - and the female body. Westerink considers both the body and the garden as metaphors for an inner spece that is tangible, fluid and transient. She transforms observations, memories, experiences and dreams into delicate pen drawings, sometimes so layered that the white paper nearly disappears.
Westerink's animated films are created using stop-motion, capturing each frame individually. By employing this technique, she chooses a slow and simple way to produce moving images, staying as close as possible to the act of drawing. This approach allows viewers to follow the drawing process closely. She also creates the films' soundtracks using primarily analogue equipment, like a 4-track recorder.
From het films, Westerink explores a more spatial form of art, using materials such as ceramics, resin and marble. She incorporates elements from her animations, reconstructing them into new works. The drawn paper figures featured in her films are layered and preserved in resin, just as she builds her gardens on paper with pen and ink, layer by layer. Thes works capture a moment frozen in time, allowing viewers to observe them from different angles. The resulting pieces strive to conserve a fleeting, moving moment.
Rozemarijn Westerink studied at ArtEZ in Arnhem (BA) and St. Joost in Den Bosch (MA). She won the Buning Brongers Prize in 2006 and in 2023 the Open Call Zadkine, initiated by the Dutch Embassy and the Zadkine Museum in Paris.
Recently, she made an animated film for the Zadkine Museum in Paris, as a contemporary reflection on the iconic sculpture 'The Destroyed City' by Ossip Zadkine. This film has been shown in Paris and the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam.
In 2026, she was an artist-in-residence at Marble Residency Pyrgos (GR) in a master-apprentice program for six weeks.
