Marije ter Weele is a Dutch visual artist whose practice is rooted in photography and is expanding into sound, moving image, material and spatial forms.
After discovering photography accidentally in 2008, she chose to study Fine Art rather than photography, approaching the photographic image as artistic material rather than a fixed medium. A study period in Kyoto, where she learned analogue printing and handmade washi techniques and developed a daily Zen meditation practice, profoundly shaped her approach to observation.
Her work moves between stillness and disturbance, examining perception, consciousness, nature, the body and realities that often remain unseen. Her current research expands photography beyond the flat image and increasingly brings artistic observation into dialogue with science and biobased materials.