Eltham (Melbourne)-based artist, Rochelle van der Merwe, has been a fine art, intimate events and portrait photographer since 2013 and a contemporary collage artist since 2020.
Born and raised in a small Zululand town in South Africa in the mid-70’s, she found solace and beauty in books, and the surrounding wild beaches and bushveld, a constant whilst growing up in a political landscape she could really never make sense of.
Rochelle’s work creates a portal to a wondrous, fantastical world that celebrates the powerful healing nature of simple, mostly every-day pleasures, transcending external societal values, such as status, race and gender.
Fine art photographic print on watercolour paper, vintage paper collage, gold leaf, acid-free sealant & glue in vintage glass-covered frame on Watercolour paper
Fine art photograph on watercolour paper, vintage paper collage, acid-free sealant & glue, gold leaf, in vintage glass-covered frame on Watercolour paper
Decollage from pages of a 1950s Ballet Book from Melbourne, Australia & 1970s National Geographic magazine, gold leaf, in vintage glass-covered frame on Pages of a 1950s Ballet Book from Melbourne, Australia
Fine art photographic print on watercolour paper, vintage paper collage, gold leaf, acid-free sealant & glue on stretched canvas in gold leaf-covered wooden frame on Watercolour paper
fine art photograph on watercolour paper, vintage paper collage, acid-free sealant glue, gold leaf, in vintage glass-covered frame on Watercolour paper