‘The interest in symbols and motifs continues in the Primordial Series of 1997and the Hourglass Suite 2003and Bottled Histories 1998 – 2000 which consists of small artworks that exist as pairs, complementing each other but having a life of their own as painting and sculptural items, both sensitively transformed with wax and paint. They combine …

Planet earth is surrounded by the most theatrical of backdrops—a magical display of infinitude in whose darkness the lights of dying stars reach us millions of light years from their original source. Such drama of exploding stars and gaseous infernos eventually fades and expires, finally morphing into something else, somewhere else. Artists and philosophers alike …

Louise Martin Chew writes: “The grouping of Lunar Circle: Night (2011) with its moonlight flicker on evolving dark circles and the linear Candescent Moon Linear: No 1 (2012) that traces the progression of colour across the planet, is interspersed with the vibrating optical movement harnessed in Liquid Light: 66 Degrees (2011). These works speak to …

Marion Borgelt’s Cryptologist’s Memoir series, 2004-07, was inspired by a newspaper article about the death of Yang Huanyi in September 2004 at the age of 98. She was the last living person fluent in Nushu, a secret women’s written language in China that was over a thousand years old. It was believed to have been …

Every universal body is in constant motion governed by an individual heartbeat possessing its own rhythm. The pulse of the heartbeat can be measured mathematically and subsequently, each mathematical sequence becomes a system for understanding the relationship of the human being to the greater universe and to time itself. Our moon, as it orbits the …

The moon has a powerful allure, brimming with beauty, legend and myth. Its constant presence reminds us of the heavenly bodies beyond our own planet, the vastness of our solar system and the timeless nature of the world we live in. As it orbits the earth, the moon seemingly changes appearance due to its position …

Just like the changing light from morning to nightfall of any day, the Liquid Light works change with the viewer’s movements, each one opening and closing like the pupil of an eye. Every degree of movement reveals yet another image where the game between artwork and viewer endlessly unfolds. ______________________________________________________________________________ ‘A return to the painted …

The Strobe works are abstract large-scale paintings referencing waves of bending, twisting light whose vivid bands of colour are a contrast to the subtlety of Borgelt’s earlier work. The rich, intense hues bring a drama to Borgelt’s oeuvre while keeping true to the artist’s ever-present concern with exploration of optical effects. The foundation of this …