Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1991ZA. Lives and works in Cape Town)

Weaving is pivotal to Marguerite Roux’s practice. The repurposing of outdated phonebooks is her most lasting preoccupation and foundation of much of her work, provoking reflection on time, notions of progress and what remains tangible as a result. From the essential fragility of phonebooks’ non-archival paper, Roux alludes to the disappearing significance of its once valuable information. “I spend hours cutting pages into strips and weaving them back together to communicate the value, strength and the ephemeral quality of the paper and technology,” says Roux. “I change the format, order and code to draw attention to the information that is so easily discarded as trivial. I gently force horizontal and vertical threads into a structure that registers my time and effort. By encapsulating the information in this document, the fragile importance of a nearly forgotten technology is savoured.”

Solo exhibitions

2014: To Time – Graduate Exhibition, Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University
2017: Criss-Cross – MAVA Exhibition, Block C Shop 7, The Woodmill Lifestyle Centre, Stellenbosch

Group exhibitions

2020: Summer Salon, The Gallery at Glen Carlou, Klapmuts; A Whole New World, Liebrecht Art Gallery, Somerset West; Knoop, GUS, Stellenbosch; Hard but Soft, The Gallery at Glen Carlou, Klapmuts
2019: Summer Salon, Liebrecht Art Gallery, Somerset West; Also Known as Africa Fair, Dyman Gallery, Paris, France; Not My Type, Imibala Gallery, Somerset West; Verf dit Swart (Paint it Black), Aardklop Kunstefees, Potchefstroom; Google Weaving Stop-Time, Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Hasselt; Botanica, Art.b, Bellville; Textiles, Dyman Gallery, Stellenbosch; Home Moods, Liebrecht Art Gallery, Somerset West; Google Weaving Stop-Time, LUMA Atelier, Arles, France; Vers en Vlam / Flaming Verse, Suidoosterfees, Cape Town; Handmade Heaven, Absolut Art Gallery, Stellenbosch West; The Affordable Art Fair, Absolut Art Gallery, Brussels
2018: The Return of Persephone Part III, Imibala Gallery, Somerset West; #paper, Art.b, Bellville; Between Figuration and Abstraction, Absolut Art Gallery, Stellenbosch; Google Weaving Stop-Time, Istanbul Design Biennial, SALT Galata, Istanbul; This is not an exhibition, Liebrecht Art Gallery, Somerset West; Well Worn, Cavalli Gallery, Somerset West
2017: Sasol New Signatures Award – Top 100 Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; Droogte, Artvark Gallery, Kalk Bay; Threshold – MAVA review exhibition, GUS, Stellenbosch; GRADEX’17 Auction, Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch; Array, The Gallery, Taj Cape Town, Cape Town; Real Estate, Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch; Properties 3.0, Knext Gallery, Cape Town
2016: GRADEX’16 Auction, GUS, Stellenbosch; A Penny for your thoughts: A Still Life Experience, Liebrecht Gallery, Somerset West; Landmark – MAVA review exhibition, GUS, Stellenbosch, 2016
2015: GRADEX’15 Auction, GUS, Stellenbosch; Sasol New Signatures Award – Top 100 Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; Hinterlands – The Keith Dietrich Award Exhibition, GUS, Stellenbosch; The Domestic Odyssey – Greatest Hits 2014 Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2014: GRADEX’14, Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch; Sasol New Signatures Award – Western Cape Finalists Exhibition, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town; Sasol New Signatures Award – Top 100 Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; GRADEX’14 Auction, GUS, Stellenbosch
2013: Cape Town Open Book Festival, CCiBA, Cape Town; Speak Up Speak Out, US Museum, Stellenbosch

Awards & residencies

2017: Top 100 Finalist in the Sasol New Signatures Award Competition
2015: Top 100 Finalist in the Sasol New Signatures Award Competition
2014: Awarded the Timo Smuts Award for top academic achiever in Fine Arts; Awarded the Keith Dietrich Award for completing Fine Arts IV cum laude; Top 100 Finalist in the Sasol New Signatures Award Competition, Awarded the Golden Key Award for academic excellence, 2011
2008: Awarded the Redelinghuys Trophy for most promising art student

Collections

Map South Africa - Johan van Lill Private Collection

Teaching

2018: present DF Malan High School, Art and Design Teacher Grade 8 – 12

Education

2018: Master of Arts in Visual Arts (Cum Laude), Stellenbosch University
2014: Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts (Fine Arts), Stellenbosch University