Marike is a South African illustrator and educator living in England. She is a senior illustration lecturer and Year 2 Lead at the University for the Creative Arts, where she encourages exploration of illustration practice beyond traditional paradigms, as well as exploring decolonised knowledge-creation through illustration.
Marike obtained a MA in Visual Arts (Cum Laude) at Stellenbosch University, focusing on narrative illustration. Here she completed an (auto/bio) graphic novel about her childhood with her brother and their domestic worker, Mikie. This work laid the foundation for much of her later interests as illustrator and educator.
Marike works with a variety of mediums, from printmaking to gouache to digital illustration. Her work frequently takes the form of a softly textured and desaturated style or a flat, colourful and quirky style.
The work is largely informed by her experience as a highly sensitive and neurodivergent person and her fascination with natural life and the interconnectedness of being.
Recent works explore image-making, mark-making and poetry on/with silk.
2025 | Enthral. Group exhibition.
LumiNoir ART Gallery. London, UK.
2025 | Scenius. Group exhibition. David Hockney Gallery, UCA. Farnham, UK.
2023 | Mbare Art Space. Creative Exchange. Harare, Zimbabwe.
2017 - 2021 | Annual Student & Lecturer Illustration Exhibition. Curator & participant. Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2018 | Kiss-me-quick-and-go-my-honey. Group exhibition. Tina Skukan Gallery. Pretoria, South Africa.
2017 | My Petite Bourgeois Revolution. Group Exhibition. Northern Contemporary Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
2014 | Northern Cape Artists' Exhibition. Group Exhibition. William Humphreys Gallery. Kimberley, South Africa.
2013 | Art Books Wanted. Exhibition of Selected Works of Edition Lidu Competition. B1 Centre for Contemporary Design. Prague, Czech Republic.
2013 | Sewentien Herinneringe. MA (solo) exhibition. GUS, Gallery Stellenbosch University. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2011 | El'egant. Group Exhibition. Oude Libertas Gallery. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2011 | Handbound: A collection of Illustrated Bookworks. Sasol Art Museum. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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