Cut from the same cloth (2025) – hand-pulled screen print diptych by Warren Maroon

Warren Maroon (b. 1985) is a conceptual artist whose sculptures and installations comment and reflect on persistent social issues and personal, lived experience – he grew up on South Africa’s Cape Flats, an area associated with the harsh realities of inequality, gangsterism, drugs and violence. His practice is influenced by an Arte Povera sensibility (a movement first arising in 1960s Italy that disrupted traditional notions of mediums by employing ordinary, throwaway materials), and he uses found and ready-made objects as the means and marks of expression. Maroon explains: “I use found objects as visual coding, everyday objects that hold meaning beyond their physical form.” These “fragments of ordinary life” – discarded rugs and chairs, matchsticks, lace, windscreens, knives, rocks and broken glass – are assembled and reconfigured into artworks and exhibitions of remarkable tension: between vulnerability and resilience, turbulence and tenderness, discomfort and solace; essentially holding the complex beauty that exists within struggle.

Maroon has held five solo exhibitions, three of which were hosted by the Everard Read Gallery, and he has participated in group shows in South Africa and the USA. His work was recently acquired by the Iziko South African National Gallery.

Maroon shares his thoughts about the prints here.

• 3-Colour screen print on archival cotton paper (250gsm BFK Rives)
• Paper size: 760x560mm
• Limited edition of 15 (set of two prints)
• Numbered and signed by the artist
• Hand-printed in South Africa
• Prints are sold unframed