Marlene Steyn (b.1989) studied at the Royal College of Art in London where she received her MA in Painting in 2014. Prior to this, she attended the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where she graduated with her BA Visual Arts in 2011. Her tapestry-like paintings work to subvert the medium of painting and draw on a multitude of references: art history, psychoanalysis, mythology and contemporary culture. Recent group exhibitions include His Sprinkled Blood Served To Fructify Three Golden Apples at Atelier 35, Bucharest; Island III - Native at g39, Cardiff; La Piscine at Espace Croix Baragnon, Toulouse, France (2015); All s-he ever wanted to be, Galleria M, Calcutta (2015); Inoperative Mythology at Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London (2014); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol and Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013) and Dreamtime: New Surrealism, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, California. In 2014 she had a solo exhibition, How Cannibals Cuddle at The Art Cabin, London and Mad Love at Lychee One (London) in 2015. Steyn has another solo show coming up at Commune.1 in October 2015.
Read MoreIn 2015 she embarked on 2 residencies: Vermont Studio Centre in the USA and Odd Cultural Node, Bucharest, Romania.
