49. Manon Steyaert - Pond III

2026
Oil paint, canvas, pigment, silicone
12 x 18 cm

Manon Steyaert explores the relationship between sculpture and painting, creating works that exist fluidly between the two disciplines. Drawing on themes of grandeur, memory and sensory immersion, her practice combines silicone, canvas, oil paint and wood to produce tactile forms that challenge traditional distinctions between painting and sculpture. Influenced by architecture and abstraction, Steyaert’s works capture movement through layered surfaces and undulating compositions that feel simultaneously delicate and monumental.

Her process is intuitive and materially driven, pouring and shaping silicone with meticulous attention to texture, translucency and form. Colour plays a central role within the work, with blended pigments creating near-psychedelic patterns and shifts in opacity that alter perception and depth. Through these material experiments, Steyaert invites viewers to reconsider spatial relationships and the physical boundaries of contemporary painting.

Steyaert studied on the Fine Art Foundation at Central Saint Martins between 2014 and 2015 before completing a BA in Fine Art there from 2015 to 2018. She later completed an MFA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Arts in 2019.

Recent exhibitions include Table Manners (2026) at Barbatti Gallery, Bitten By the Bug (2025) at Heart Museum, Untethered Colour, a solo exhibition at Annika Nuttall Gallery, and The Sway of Form at Gillian Jason Gallery.

Her work has also featured in In Colour at Haricot Gallery, The Way of All Flesh presented by Delphian Gallery in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, Art on a Postcard’s International Women’s Month exhibition at the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, and Looking for_____, shown at Cub_ism Artspace.