Marieke Prinsloo
Marieke Prinsloo was born in 1977 and obtained the BA (Fine Arts) degree at the University of Pretoria in 1999 and is completing the MA (Fine Arts) degree at the University of the Witwatersrand.
In 1997 she received the Sasol New Signatures Merit Judges’ Award and in 1999 the PPC Young Concrete Sculptors Award for 13 life-size female figures. Her work is in the Johannesburg Art Gallery as well as in several public sites, private collections and galleries.
Commissioned works include the KKNK Kanna Awards for 2006 to 2008, the Regarding Capital Management (RE:CM) signature piece, the Business and Art South Africa Awards and the National Roads Agency Baobab Toll Plaza.
Marieke’s sculptures are primarily in polished concrete and explore aspects of the female form. She first sculpts in clay and then makes silicone moulds into which the different mixes of reinforced concrete are cast. Colour and texture are achieved by the use of different tones of sand and stone from different parts of South Africa, constituting a statement of identity and grounded-ness, a fingerprint or Braille text.