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DiEZEL
Lives and works in Sydney, NSw Australia
www.diezelart.com
Diezel is a Superstroke POP artist who grew up on a sheep farm in a dry symbolic of the subjects’ experiences and becomes the focus and expression
and isolated part of South Africa. She studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree of these experiences. Diezel drip paints in multiple layers, revealing and
in Johannesburg and also called Nairobi, kenya home for while. Diezel exposing the subtleties between relationship, experience and the belief
now creates art from a studio in Sydney’s Northern Beaches in Australia. system. Diezel paints in the ‘Superstroke’ style, meaning works are created
Diezel’s art is a contemplation of the human experience, the tension between with expressive brushstrokes, drips, scribbles and writing and finally
the rational and the emotional, and the impact of the experience on the marked with a plus sign (+). The plus sign is a sign of hope and positivity. The
psyche. Animals are used as metaphors for humans and the complex lives Superstroke Movement was born in Africa and symbolizes its energy, in its good
they live. The dripping paint and the colours featured in Diezel’s work, are and bad forms, bloodshed, pain and death but also beauty, optimism and hope.
gET Up! MAN Up!, ACRYLIC AND INk ON CANvAS 47X47 IN. | 120X120 CM.
ALL ANIMALs ARE EQUAL, ACRYLIC AND INk ON CANvAS 63X47 IN. | 160X120 CM.
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