Cosmic lovers’ oasis (2023) – hand-pulled screen print by Kylie Wentzel

Kylie Wentzel (b. 1993) continually explores new mediums as a means of resisting the constrictions of formal art training, with her distinctive, bold, graphic style acrylic paintings largely informed by her love of linocut – both the medium itself and its idiosyncrasies within the South African art historical context. Her work bears what the artist calls “remnants” of this influence, which she explains are evident in the “distinctive borders and using them to contribute to the narrative, mark-making, combining picture and text, [and] bold graphics”. Her aesthetic is intentionally loose, intuitive and naïve, with a sense of raw immediacy that is also apparent in her subject matter: She is inspired by her surrounding environments – both natural or urban – and the creatures, objects, people, paraphernalia, smells and scribbles that inhabit and adorn these spaces.

Since her graduation in 2015, Wentzel has held two solos and a duo show at Joburg’s Kalashnikovv Gallery, participated in group exhibitions and prominent art fairs across South Africa and in Paris, and won the Emerging Painting Invitational Residency Prize in Angola.

• 11-Colour screen print on archival BFK Rives 250gsm
• Paper size: 760×560 mm
• Limited edition of 30
• Numbered and signed by the artist
• Hand-printed in South Africa
• Please note all prints are sold unframed