Dr Mareike Gronwald is a German-born emerging artist, arts worker and sociologist living on unceded Gundungurra and Dharug Country in the Blue Mountains. With a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Mannheim (2013) and experience as a researcher and lecturer in the field of social policy analysis, her academic background informs her art practice and her deep interest in how societies function, change and succeed. Mareike's art practice is rooted in transformation—constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing visual maps of what it means to be a woman and a mother. It is a creative reflection on her ongoing engagement with societal and political questions—particularly the role, recognition, and perception of women in society and how these experiences intersect with emotional and spiritual connections to the natural world. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Mareike explores various degrees of abstraction and the intuitive play with colour, form and mark making. This process gives rise to shapes, lines, and symbols that float between geometric precision and organic irregularity, alluding to the entangled realms of eco-feminism, sociology, and the hidden rituals of m/othering and women’s work across the boundaries of bodies and statehood. Influenced by the emotional intensity of German Expressionism, especially the Blauer Reiter group, the spiritual abstraction of Hilma af Klint, and the principles of geometric abstraction, Mareike's work attempts to hold space for intuition and intellect, for the fluid and the structured—an ongoing negotiation between internal worlds and external systems. Her abstract compositions often point toward the veiled, unseen dimensions of mothering journeys and the labour of care, often rendered invisible in dominant narratives.