Pauline Marcelle - Artist Statement I am an artist deeply influenced by my Caribbean heritage from Dominica and my experiences livingin Europe and beyond. My work explores themes of identity, culture, history, and the environmentusing various mediums like painting, sculpture, video, installation, and mixed media. At the heart ofmy art is a desire to examine the human experience and the ways geography, heritage, andperspective shape who we are. A key inspiration for my work is the legacy of the maroons, the enslaved people who escaped tobuild communities defined by resilience and defiance. Their story speaks to themes oftransformation, resistance, and survival, which I reflect on by reclaiming and reimagining culturalnarratives that connect the past and present. My art highlights the contrasts in our world: beauty alongside violence, tradition merging withmodernity, and local stories intersecting with global ones. I use bold colours, abstract forms, andlayered textures to capture these tensions, often incorporating recycled materials and clothing. Thisapproach transforms materials and honours their history, addressing sustainability, renewal, and theurgent realities of climate change and climate injustice. Through my work, I seek to reveal howenvironmental crises disproportionately impact vulnerable communities, inviting reflection onresilience and responsibility. Above all, my work is about the connection between people, histories, and environments. Byblending African diasporic influences with contemporary art, I celebrate black identity as rich,diverse, and multifaceted. My art aims to challenge outdated perspectives, celebrate heritage, andconfront the erasure of important stories from history. Through my creations, I hope to inspire reflection, empowerment, and meaningful conversations.Each piece invites viewers to see the world as an interconnected tapestry of relationships, remindingus of our shared histories and the transformative power of resilience and creativity. Biography Pauline Marcelle, born in Dominica, West Indies, currently lives and works in Dominica and Vienna,Austria. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation, with a focuson the complexities of human behavior and the dynamics of social and psychological environments.Central to her work are themes of consumption, sustainability, and resilience, as she examineshuman needs and desires. Marcelle skillfully integrates digital collages with painterly techniques,transforming them into evocative pictorial forms. By constantly redefining relationships within hercompositions, she captures the intersection of the photographic and the painterly, using thesemediums to explore significant themes related to the human experience. Pauline Marcelle was educated at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria and holds an MFAin Visual and Fine Arts (2000). She has been featured in publications including DATUM, Vogue Brazil,Elle South Africa, GQ Russia, Buro24/7 Russia, L’Officiel Austria and Golfrevue Austria. Marcelle hasreceived several awards and grants and her work is in numerous public and private collections. Shehas participated in the Bag Factory Studio Residency (2010) in Johannesburg, South Africa throughthe Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize. Marcelle’s paintings and sculptures have been included in showsat the London Art Fair(2024), Venice Biennale Croation Pavilion(2024), Parallel Vienna(2023), PrizmArt Fair (Miami Art Week(2021 & 2022), Cosmoscow International Fair Moscow, Russia (2021),UNTITLED Art Fair Miami Art Week (2020), Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (2019), TextileMuseum of Canada (2015), PAMM Museum, Miami USA (2014), World Bank, DC USA (2012), ArtMuseum of the Americas, DC USA (2011) and Arts on Main Johannesburg, SA (2010) amongstothers.