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Single Quarters, 2022. Coloured pencil on black paper. 55.5 x 66cm
As an extension of her ‘Opening Up’ series, Nicky Marais has focused on seemingly innocuous buildings that are imbued with history. An old abandoned missionary church in Ondobe, The Single Quarters housing for mine workers living far from home in Oranjemund and The Realmar Gebou in Windhoek, a classic example from the period of South African occupation of Namibia. With these images Marais imagines an “opening up” of conversations and thoughts about Namibia's colonial history, the human cost of mining and the legacy of Apartheid.
Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist. She is well-known for her abstract artworks created using a personal vocabulary of forms and colour relationships derived from everyday life, as well as the socio-political history of Namibia. Marais describes her practice as a “constant hunt for significant shapes”, which are subjected to a process of near-obsessive repetition, appearing multiple times in different combinations. Much of her work explores the relationship between physical and spiritual worlds, which extends into an investigation of the relationship between the tangible and the intangible, the signifier and the signified. Marais has exhibited extensively in Namibia and abroad. She has recently retired from an eleven year posting as the Head of Department of Visual Arts at the College of the Arts in Windhoek.
- Creator:Nicky Marais (1962, African)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 21.86 in (55.5 cm)Width: 25.99 in (66 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Windhoek, NA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1506210772282
Nicky Marais
Nicky Marais is a Namibian painter who has lived and worked in Windhoek as an exhibiting fine artist, arts project coordinator, arts educator and activist since soon after graduating in 1987 from the Port Elizabeth Technikon in South Africa. Marais has exhibited extensively in Namibia and internationally.
Marais works from her studio in Windhoek as well as facilitating various collaborative projects with artists and the public. Marais is dedicated to increasing public access to art. She is recently retired from her position as the Head of Department of Visual Arts at the College of the Arts, where she taught theory of art and built local content into the diploma qualification courses offered by the College. Nicky Marais is represented by Guns&Rain Gallery in South Africa and StArt Art Gallery in Namibia. To see more of her available work online visit the Guns&Rain and StArt Art Gallery websites.
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