Marcia Elizabeth Greyling is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, collage, painting, drawing, performance, written and audio mediums. Her work speaks from a personal narrative of a white woman Afrikaner and unhappy queer. The work attempts to show how biomythographic writing, research and art making can reveal a complex narrative of South African whiteness and in particular, Afrikaner whiteness and its relationship to silence and secrecy. This is done by studying interpersonal relationships, cultural tradition, lived experience and generational belief through writing, art making and research.
“Fiction is present in the art itself, in my drawings and paintings as well as my performance art videos which intends to speak about the specificities of my identity. It is within this "zooming in" of self- portraiture, personal narrative (sometimes omitting details and especially names and identifying characteristics of others) and performance videos that I try to “find myself” and to understand the "habit of whiteness" as articulated by Sara Ahmed. Within my art practice there
is an intentional repetitiveness as I practice everyday rituals of art making, play
video games, snap candid photographs, take selfies, create simple small paintings and self- portraits. Each of these pieces are worked on daily. In the work, a confessional divulges itself, both vulnerable, yet coveted as not every aspect of my life and the people involved in it, is revealed.”

Marcia has completed her MAFA at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2024.