Marie-Adèle de Villiers is a Cape Town based artist focusing on drawing and painting, with a Fine Arts degree from Stellenbosch University. Following the completion of her final year in 2014, she was one of the recipients of the Keith Dietrich award, granted for completing your final year with distinction. She predominantly produces drawings and paintings of mountains, with an interest in time and process, and with a desire to honour the ultimate Creator God, by whom and for whom she exists and strives to create.
De Villiers entertains the idea of mountains as the grandfathers of nature, and therefore sees them as inspiring a sense of perspective, something greater, familiarity and timelessness. She is interested in the themes of time, process, space, the concept of the sublime and viewing mountains as these ancient wonders in an unceasing flow of representations, standing as witnesses to the eternal God who made them and existed before them.
After mainly pursuing other interests, including a year abroad, with art only a sideline vocation, she committed to a career as an artist at the start of 2018. She has since been building her career with various undertakings, including a number of commissions and group exhibitions. In 2019 her artwork “the before is now |” was selected as part of the top 80 in the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition.
b. 1991 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
BA Fine Arts (University of Stellenbosch) 2014
Exhibitions
2021
The Cubists | group exhibition | Liebrecht Gallery, Somerset West
2020/2021
Home Is Where The Art Is | group exhibition | Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
2020
A Whole New World? | group exhibition | Liebrecht Gallery, Somerset West
2019
Winter Life | group exhibition hosted by The Studio Art Gallery | St Peters Church, Fish Hoek & The Studio Art Gallery, Simon’s Town
group exhibition hosted by 40 Stones in the Wall art collective | Cory Room, Grahamstown
Sasol New Signatures Exhibition | Pretoria Art Museum
Home Moods | group exhibition | Liebrecht Gallery, Somerset West
Narratives of Place | group exhibition | Mullers Gallery, Cape Town
2018
A Land Invisible | group exhibition hosted by 40 Stones in the Wall art collective | Grahamstown
Re-sCape | group exhibition hosted by 40 Stones in the Wall art collective | Cape Town
2015
Hinterlands | Keith Dietrich Award group exhibition | GUS, Stellenbosch
2014
GRADEX’14 | Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University
for the sake of time spent | graduate solo exhibition | Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University
GRADEX’14 Auction | GUS, Stellenbosch
Awards
2019
Sasol New Signatures Top 80
2nd in the People’s Choice Award for Home Moods at Liebrecht Gallery
2014
Keith Dietrich Award | granted for completing your final year with distinction
2012
Golden Key International Honour Society Membership Achievement
Corporate Collections
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
