Kevin Maringer

BIOGRAPHY

Kevin Marringer is an artist printmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their career as an artist has taken a non-traditional route. Although highly creative as a child growing up in a multicultural family between Germany and England, their formal academic education has been in the sciences, and they still work full-time leading a research laboratory in the field of global public health.

They have honed their artistic skills and creative vision through life drawing classes, community printshops and workshops with internationally leading artists and master printers. They have travelled extensively and called many countries and places home, and this experience of living between cultures has a strong influence on their work.

They have exhibited nationally in curated gallery shows in London, Edinburgh and across the UK, including as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival programme, and have won regional awards for their work. They are a member of Edinburgh Printmakers where they create their stone lithographs, while their relief prints are printed in their home studio in the heart of Edinburgh.

Artist statement

"Much of my recent work has focussed on an exploration of masks and the tension between our inner self and the idealised version of ourselves that we project to the world. My work is informed by my lived experience as a queer nonbinary neurodivergent person with a multi-national heritage and upbringing, my training as a scientist, and my time spent living in the multicultural melting pots London and New York.

"I primarily work in relief printing (woodcut and mokuhanga) and lithography (using stone and wood as substrates). My work strives to incite reflection on our shared humanity and joint origin in nature through the exploration of natural materials, textures and pigments. I am particularly drawn to pigments like rust and coal that undergo transformations and exist in multiple states, representing the multiple identities that coexist within us. I count Tracey Emin, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Bridget Riley, Evelyne Axell and Matsubara Naoko among my influences."