Marlise Keith (born 9 June 1972) is a
South African artist working in
ink
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,
pencil
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and
acrylics on large-scale canvas, board and glass (reverse glass painting). Her works can be found in a number of international collections in South Africa, America, Britain, Germany, Portugal and Sweden. She worked as an art teacher at
Rustenburg High School for Girls in
Cape Town
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until 2003.
Keith received a BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 1995 and a Master's Degree in Fine arts at the University of Stellenbosch in 2000. She taught high school art and was later head of the production design department at AFDA, The School for the Creative Economy before working full time as an artist in 2006.
Works
Keith's work is influenced by people, her surroundings and aspects of her personal life. Dreams play an important role in many works, where she captures often disturbing but mostly surreal moments in small, detailed areas of her larger works. It is important to examine her works in great detail to see images receding into the surface and to fully enjoy the complexity and whimsical nature of her illustrative style. Keith has exhibited widely and her works are to be found in collections all around the world.
Awards
Winner of the Vuleka Art Competition 2006
''Team Sanity, 140 x 100 cm, Mixed media on board, 2006''
Selected for the Absa Atelier 2006
Shows
''Elysian Fields'' at UCA Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa 2009
References
Doring Doilies at the AVAby Evie Franzidis
External links
Marlise Keith HomepageWorldart
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Living people
1972 births
20th-century South African women artists
21st-century South African women artists