Marolize Southwood is a multidisciplinary artist and creator originally from Viljoenskroon, Free State. She received her BFA from the University of Cape Town in 2017, majoring in Photography and graduating with a distinction in studio work. After graduating, her practical and creative skills lead her to a plethora of in the creative ventures such as working as a florist, a designer, an assistant to ceramicist Jade Paton and even as a baker, creating bespoke art cakes.
Marolize’s creative practice demonstrates her deep fascination with the human condition in the 21st century and explores themes that are a part of this elaborate and bizarre self-constructed collective experience. Her colourful, idyllic and often humorous imagery explore notions of identity, self-reflection, intimacy, space, nature, and self-fulfilment in the post digital world. Her paintings use bold, joyful, and textured brushwork, along with an elaborate impasto technique that creates expressive and sculptural surfaces. Marolize’s work uses paint and it’s texture as an active participant in the image making itself; her painted surface becomes a geography created in oils. Reflecting on a world that is mostly viewed remotely via screens, her sculptural, tactile work is a direct reaction to the two-dimensional digital plane we constantly interact with.
While her personal practice is ever expanding and she regularly ventures into new mediums and creative avenues, she is currently a full time artist and is mostly known for her work as a painter and currently lives and practices in Cape Town South Africa.
For the Matchbox JAHRESGABE, Marolize has created 30 works measuring 10 × 15 cm in oil on canvas.
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