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Nicky Marais
Turnstile Vibration 2, Nicky Marais, acrylic paint, ink, cotton rag paper

2020

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Turnstile Vibration 2, 2020. Acrylic paint and ink on recycled cotton rag paper. Repeated and transformed in these paintings, Nicky Marais’ ‘Turnstiles’ are portals through which we can experience both stillness and dynamism. They are points of transition, and through them the artist offers a moment of connection and access as well as separation and disjuncture. “I love the drama of what happens in the spaces between things, the portals, and the liminality of the in-between. The tenuousness of these joinings. The places and shapes that fascinate me and recur in my work are those that signify a change of state, or a change of being.” (Nicky Marais) Nicky Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist who lives and works in Windhoek. Marais is well-known for her abstract artworks created using a personal vocabulary of abstract forms and colour relationships derived from everyday life as well as the socio-political history of Namibia and icons from around the continent. These forms are often layered using a mixture of stencils and traditional painting techniques. 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. In 2017, The National Art Gallery of Namibia hosted a solo exhibition by Marais, titled ‘Presence in Absence’. Marais exhibited as part of StArt Art Gallery's group exhibition 'Look-see' in 2018. She is recently retired from an eleven year posting as the Head of Department of Visual Arts at the College of the Arts in Windhoek.
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