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Medek's paintings are a sustained and ongoing interest and communion with the act of painting. Medek has taken on the 'eternal' landscape as vision and subject matter, crossing the borders of figurative and non-objective painting.The solution ( to whatever problem is posed) is not in one painting alone. |
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Ihor Holubizky Curator / Art Writer Catalogue essay Towards Beauty's end. Unpublished. November 2004 / 06 |
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Robyn literally breathes fresh life into abstraction.....There's a great beauty and sensuality in her paintings. |
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Peter Bellas Art Dealer. Vogue Living June July 2002 |
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Concerned with the way the body relates to Architectural forms, and the way architectural forms relate to the greater environment, she develops in her work a world of form and colour that shares something with the great abstractionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. And yet her work speaks of something more, or rather, something other. |
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Josh Milani . Art Dealer / Art writer / Curator. Presence Map Magazine. June. 2000 |
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In all of these Schuurmans- Medek continues a tradition that has hardly survived in contemporary Australian art - neither geometric nor gestural but what used to be called 'lyrical' or even 'colour field' abstraction, which is before all else an abstraction from something else, whether it be a landscape, seascape or the form of a room. This kind of work does not emphasize the materiality of paint or the process of painting but aspires to evoke another state of being. |
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Dr. Rex Butler. Senior Lecturer in Art History / Theory University of Queensland. Room with a view. Courier Mail. May 11.2000 |
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RM's paintings seem to be extracted from a private site screened from the viewer, but simultaneously, the works offer an 'outside' painterly derma to which the receiver is invited to graft their own more familiar and well traversed architectural skin-memories. |
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Sandra Selig Artist / Art Writer / Curator Presence and Jazz in the Moon viewing room. Eyeline Spring 2000 |
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There is an elegiac quality to RM's paintings, unencumbered by overwrought devices or theoretical intrusions. RM's paintings reconcile divergent streams with an essentialism rather than deferring to the 'look' of precursors or competing versions of abstracted history. Above all else RM is a naturalist and a realist. |
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Ihor Holubizky. Curator / Art Writer RM Schuurmans-Medek at Bellas Eyeline Autumn Winter 1999 |
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These Blueprint works are mysterious and meditative. The experience of these works for the viewer is one of both visual delight and spiritual uplift. Partly because of the colour range perhaps, but also because of the rich yet subtle textures of the paint....The surfaces, the glazes and the paint density are all controlled with great confidence and expertise to give the viewer multiple points of entry |
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Dr Rod Wissler. Director of Post Graduate Research Qld. University of Technology External examiners report MA .....Blueprint 1998 |
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Medek's "blue" canvasses are like luminous theatres of the unconscious imagination. For the viewer, they are meditative, absorbing experiences. These are authoritative, fully resolved paintings and demonstrate an artist of considerable ability. |
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Anne Kirker. Senior Curator. Queensland Art Gallery External examiners report MA .....Blueprint 1998 |
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