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South African visual artist Shui-lyn White

Shui-lyn White

Cape Town | 6 artworks for sale

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  • The Big Red - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White The Big Red
    Mixed Media Monotype / 78 x 96 cm
    R21 250
  • Maelstrom - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White Maelstrom
    Mixed Media Monotype / 78 x 94 cm
    R17 500
  • Morning Passages - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White Morning Passages
    Mixed Media Monotype / 94 x 77 cm
    R18 500
  • All Of The Time - Giclée Print by Shui-lyn White All Of The Time
    Giclée Print / 56 x 56 cm
    R9 500
  • Tango For One - Giclée Print by Shui-lyn White Tango For One
    Giclée Print / 56 x 56 cm
    R9 500
  • Then & Now - Giclée Print by Shui-lyn White Then & Now
    Giclée Print / 56 x 56 cm
    R9 500
  • The Emperor's New Clothes - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White
    The Emperor's New Clothes
    Mixed Media Monotype / 78 x 85 cm
  • Return Of The Water Spirit - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White
    Return Of The Water Spirit
    Mixed Media Monotype / 78 x 96 cm
  • Under A Midnight Sun - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White
    Under A Midnight Sun
    Mixed Media Monotype / 78 x 96 cm
  • In A Parallel Universe - Mixed Media Monotype by Shui-lyn White
    In A Parallel Universe
    Mixed Media Monotype / 71 x 101 cm
  • Alphabet Of Longing - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    Alphabet Of Longing
    Handmade Print / 63 x 79 cm
  • Horizon Variations - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    Horizon Variations
    Handmade Print / 50 x 70 cm
  • Shadow Journals - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    Shadow Journals
    Handmade Print / 50 x 70 cm
  • From The Embankment (London) - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    From The Embankment (London)
    Handmade Print / 50 x 70 cm
  • To The Lighthouse - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    To The Lighthouse
    Handmade Print / 63 x 79 cm
  • In Arcadia, Ego - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    In Arcadia, Ego
    Handmade Print / 63 x 79 cm
  • Scenes From An Exhibition - Handmade Print by Shui-lyn White
    Scenes From An Exhibition
    Handmade Print / 63 x 79 cm
My work is based entirely on gesture and mark making; its inherent integrity of expression as the communicating force for the experience stored in both the subconscious and conscious memory of the body and the mind. The movement of paint across the surface of the plate or the canvas is key to the image-making which winds along a balancing line between the figurative and the abstract.

The underlying emphasis in most of my work is to question and explore what it is to be in the world; what it is to be present; how we as individuals, and as a species, inhabit the space we call the 'self'.
Shui-Lyn White is an artist who uses the gestural and textural evocations of paint to explore how we are in the world. Her works delve below the surface of persona to illuminate how we form and inhabit the space called the 'self' - creating an emotional subsurface scattering. Her art practice meditates on how we in our most subliminal form move through time and space to arrive at a place that we can call home. Each art work can be seen as a ‘letter’ inviting the viewer to be grounded in the here and now of their being.
Being an only child on a vast sugar estate in Nigeria and shaped by family histories of migration, exile and war sparked a curiosity into the self and belonging. This led her to question the societal myths and constructs of the self, and to realise the importance of connection over belonging in finding one’s place in the world.
Shui-Lyn’s work reflects her Sino-European-African heritage. Born to a Chinese mother and an English father in Nigeria, she has lived in Ghana, England, France, Australia, Malawi, South Africa and Ethiopia. She is currently based in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
In 2017, Shui-Lyn was honored with a special invitation by Chief Curator, Morgan Doyle RE and selected by the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers for The Masters Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in London. She was surprised and delighted when The Royal Academy of Engravers selected two of her works.

 
 
 

Selected Exhibitions

2019
One Small Gesture (Red Moon Art Incubator, Brussels)

2018
The Absence of Gravity: solo exhibition at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville.
Collective Amnesia: solo exhibition at Alliance Française

2013
The Human Cosmos (Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville)

2010
New Works (Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville)

2009
Fate Amenable to Change (Salon91, Cape Town)

2008
Lightly Seared on the Grill of Reality (Gesseau Contemporary, Johannesburg)

2005
Fragile (Gesseau Contemporary, Johannesburg)

2004
Return to the Source (New York)
Ecco Spiritus (Gesseau Contemporary, Johannesburg)

2003
Anthology (Gesseau Contemporary, Johannesburg)

 
Group Exhibitions:
 
2022
Abstract*d (StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town)

2020
Zeitz MOCAA Home Is Where the Art Is (Cape Town)
Women in Art Biennale (Pakistan)
Solo Studios (Riebeek Kasteel)
Subsurface Scatterings (Gallery One11, Cape Town)
Dark Matters Kolab ll (Riebeek Kasteel)

2018
The Marks We Make (StateoftheART, Cape Town)
The Battersea Art Fair (London)

2017
The Masters One Off (Bankside Gallery, London)
Tulbagh Arts (Tulbagh)

2013
Space and Spaces (Hermanus Fynarts - prize winner)

2011
Kanon21 Open Studios (Cape Town)

2007
Alliance Française (Johannesburg)
Alliance Française (Cape Town)

2006
Living Rites (Constitution Hill, Johannesburg)


Corporate Exhibitions:
2004 Prometheus Unbound (Change Partners Corporate Coaching, Johannesburg)
2006 Wom(B)an (book launch, Johannesburg)
2007 Living Spaces (Biovac Institute, Cape Town)
2007 Our Land (Ericsson, Zambia)