Siphiwe Mnguni, B&R (03), 2024
Pastel, oil stick, paint and collage on painted paper, 56.5 × 76cm
Siphiwe Mnguni's practice navigates the notion of identity whilst exploring the iconography of the black female nude in relation to her own body. Challenging traditional representations of the figure in western art history, Siphiwe's work is also informed by subconscious thought and her own experiences as a young British-Zimbabwean woman living in south east London.
This unframed mixed media piece is the third in a body of new works by the artist being presented by Oliver Projects at the London Art Fair. Titled B&R (blue and red), the images are intensely personal, having been informed by a plethora of emotions and states including frustration, interdependence, love, and anger. Siphiwe’s characteristic abstracted figures have evolved in these works; previously bold and graphic, they now fizzle with tension, evoked by the artist’s lively drawing style. In this composition, there is a sense of push and pull as the forms appear to interact with one another.
Siphiwe has shown her work widely in London including at Tart Gallery in a group exhibition (December 2021). In 2023, she was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and was subsequently interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme with Eileen Cooper RA. Oliver Projects was proud to launch Siphiwe’s first limited edition screenprint at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in the same year. We have also shown her unique works in several group exhibitions including 'Almost Blue’ at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery (June 2024). Most recently, Siphiwe’s work was selected for ‘Voices of Black Artistry’ at Christies, London (September 2024). Siphiwe lives in south east London.
Pastel, oil stick, paint and collage on painted paper, 56.5 × 76cm
Siphiwe Mnguni's practice navigates the notion of identity whilst exploring the iconography of the black female nude in relation to her own body. Challenging traditional representations of the figure in western art history, Siphiwe's work is also informed by subconscious thought and her own experiences as a young British-Zimbabwean woman living in south east London.
This unframed mixed media piece is the third in a body of new works by the artist being presented by Oliver Projects at the London Art Fair. Titled B&R (blue and red), the images are intensely personal, having been informed by a plethora of emotions and states including frustration, interdependence, love, and anger. Siphiwe’s characteristic abstracted figures have evolved in these works; previously bold and graphic, they now fizzle with tension, evoked by the artist’s lively drawing style. In this composition, there is a sense of push and pull as the forms appear to interact with one another.
Siphiwe has shown her work widely in London including at Tart Gallery in a group exhibition (December 2021). In 2023, she was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and was subsequently interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme with Eileen Cooper RA. Oliver Projects was proud to launch Siphiwe’s first limited edition screenprint at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in the same year. We have also shown her unique works in several group exhibitions including 'Almost Blue’ at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery (June 2024). Most recently, Siphiwe’s work was selected for ‘Voices of Black Artistry’ at Christies, London (September 2024). Siphiwe lives in south east London.
Pastel, oil stick, paint and collage on painted paper, 56.5 × 76cm
Siphiwe Mnguni's practice navigates the notion of identity whilst exploring the iconography of the black female nude in relation to her own body. Challenging traditional representations of the figure in western art history, Siphiwe's work is also informed by subconscious thought and her own experiences as a young British-Zimbabwean woman living in south east London.
This unframed mixed media piece is the third in a body of new works by the artist being presented by Oliver Projects at the London Art Fair. Titled B&R (blue and red), the images are intensely personal, having been informed by a plethora of emotions and states including frustration, interdependence, love, and anger. Siphiwe’s characteristic abstracted figures have evolved in these works; previously bold and graphic, they now fizzle with tension, evoked by the artist’s lively drawing style. In this composition, there is a sense of push and pull as the forms appear to interact with one another.
Siphiwe has shown her work widely in London including at Tart Gallery in a group exhibition (December 2021). In 2023, she was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and was subsequently interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme with Eileen Cooper RA. Oliver Projects was proud to launch Siphiwe’s first limited edition screenprint at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in the same year. We have also shown her unique works in several group exhibitions including 'Almost Blue’ at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery (June 2024). Most recently, Siphiwe’s work was selected for ‘Voices of Black Artistry’ at Christies, London (September 2024). Siphiwe lives in south east London.
