Nicky Marais

Nicky Marais, born in 1962 in Rustenburg, South Africa, is a Namibian artist who lives and works in Windhoek. She has worked as a painter, mixed-media artist, activist, and educator.

Biography After obtaining a fine arts degree from the Port Elizabeth Technikon (now part of the Nelson Mandela University), Marais moved to Windhoek in 1987. There, she began exhibiting her work and joined the editorial board of the feminist magazine Sister Namibia.

In 2006, she founded the collective VA-N (Visual Artists Namibia). — and the socio-political history of Namibia.

More recent work uses stencil and collage techniques, while incorporating found objects into her work, as in her exhibition Presence in Absence at the National Art Gallery of Namibia in 2017,