Artist Statement
Shui-Lyn White’s practice unfolds through monotype and expanded printmaking processes that explore time, presence and transience. Working through accumulation, erasure, repetition and recalibration, the works emerge gradually — held between formation and dissolution, appearance and disappearance.
Using monotype, linocut and mixed media on cotton paper, she creates singular works that resist fixed narrative or resolution. Fields, intervals and recurring forms become ways of tracing temporal states: moments where presence briefly condenses before dispersing again into silence, atmosphere or space.
Rather than illustrating an idea, the work develops through sustained material negotiation. Surfaces are built slowly over time, allowing pressure, residue, interruption and openness to remain visible within the image.
The works invite a slower encounter — one attentive to duration, instability and the quiet movement between what emerges and what recedes.
Artist Bio
Shui-Lyn White is a Cape Town–based artist working primarily in monotype and expanded printmaking. Her practice explores time, presence and transience through processes of accumulation, erasure and repetition.
Working with monotype, linocut and mixed media on cotton paper, she creates singular works that unfold gradually through material negotiation rather than fixed image-making. Pared-back compositions, muted tonal fields and recurring forms allow silence, interval and atmosphere to operate as active elements within the work.
White apprenticed for more than a decade with the late South African printmaker Christiaan Diedericks. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, with a studio in Porterville.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the OSTEN Biennial of Drawing, the Egypt International Print Triennial and the Yerevan International Print Biennale.
Recent Highlights
2025 Osten 80 Exhibition, Skopje, North Macedonia
2025 Egypt International Print Triennial, Sector of Fine Arts, Egyptian Ministry of Culture
2025 Yerevan Jubilee Fifth International Print Biennale, Armenia
2024 Miniprint Cantabria, Spain
2024 Selected for SMGT Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland
2023 Artist-in-residency Invitation to Guanlan International Printmaking Base, China
2023 No halos, No Crowns Exhibition, Alliance Française, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 Finalist “Where the Mind has no Fear” exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand
2023 Long-listed Visual Art Open, United Kingdom
2023 Finalist Fourth Yerevan Print Biennale Armenia
2023 Finalist Awagami International Printmaking Exhibition, Japan.
2023 Finalist First International Biennale of Miniature Art Graphics and Drawing- Bitola - Macedonia
2023 Fifth Solo Studios in Riebeek Kasteel, South Africa
2023 Finalist Sofia Printmaking Triennial
2022 Consciousness Exhibition at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, (Vortex) during the 59th Venice Biennale
2022 Finalist for Black & White Print Exhibition with Studio Next, Kolkata, India
2022 Finalist for Extinction: Save the Planet International with Gallerium Art Exhibitions
2022 Finalist for 5th Printmaking Biennial, Serbia
2022 Abstract*d Group Exhibition at The State of the Art Gallery, Cape Town
2022 ArtUnlocked Artist Studio Exhibition - Riebeek Kasteel
2022 Infinity to the Power of Women at The Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022 Vortex - The Space, Hermanus, South Africa
2021 Finalist Ink Masters Exhibition - Cairns, Australia
2021 Awagami International Printmaking Exhibition, Japan
2021 Finalist First International Political Activism Biennale
2021 Finalist and Curator’s Award People and Paintings Gallery - Sweet Little Nothings, New York
2021 11th International Printmaking Exhibition, Trakya University, Turkey
2021 Presence Exhibition, LKFF Gallery, Belgium
2021 Artist Residency at La Cité International des Arts, Paris
2021 Platforme Earth Exhibition, Paris (Vortex)
2020 Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town) “Home is where the art is”
2017 Royal Society of Painter Printmakers for The Masters Exhibition at Bankside Gallery in London
Private Collections
South Africa, America, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Lebanon, Namibia
Corporate Collections
Ericsson Zimbabwe, Biovac Institute South Africa, Deutsche Bank South Africa