Artist Profile

Artists statement: 

My work has always been concerned, directly or indirectly, with identity. This comes through in my more recent works where self portraits and landscapes become the markers for displacement and dislocation.

Portraits and self portraits have always been coupled with issues surrounding identity, but for me landscapes can also carry significance as a marker for identity. Landscape is political and public, but it is also private and imbued with a nostalgia that carries with it memory and personal history.

In making these works, I became interested in repetition and the natural transformations that occur when one paints the same image over and over again. The place or the person remains the same, the starting point remains the same, but the end result shows a definite shift in translation. Identity is therefore subtly altered. These repeated landscapes and portraits change with each reworking.
 

 

Website: 

www.mariannebotha.com

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Expatriate

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Under the Weather

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Arrival

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Destination

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Inclement Weather

History

Member for

2 years 33 weeks

Name and Address

First Name

Marianne

Last Name

Fenton

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