Martine Margoles graduated from Michaelis (UCT) in 1986. After two solo exhibitions at Goodman Gallery, she moved to New York for seven years, where she
manufactured and sold her Amos & Sophie T-shirts, worked as a fashion designer and made dresses for Patricia Field. On returning to Johannesburg, she
established a commercial metalworking studio, working with steel on a large scale. In 2004, she won a tender to make gates for the judge’s chamber at
Constitution Hill, where she also held a solo sculpture exhibition.
Margoles has exhibited in South Africa and internationally, including at Goodman Gallery, Alliance Française, Constitution Hill, Lizamore Gallery and Glen Carlou
Gallery. Her work has also been presented at Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with the Heidi Erdmann Gallery.
Martine Margoles’ creative process began long before digital technology. As a young artist, she spent hours in libraries photocopying images from books, cutting
them apart and collaging them together until they resembled the pictures that already existed in her imagination. As technology evolved, so did her process.
Library books became a camera, then Google, Pinterest and today, ChatGPT.