Marianne Le Cheaf | A Tent Built From Napkins and Love

 
 

A Tent Built From Napkins and Love | 2026
Acrylic and pencil on birch board
92 x 62 cm
Signed on the side panel

$ 3,100


 
 

 
 
 

BIO
Marianne Le Cheaf

Marianne Le Cheaf is a visual artist whose bold, textured acrylic works feature the Australian magpie as a tribute to the women who are the anchors of their lineage, providing a space to finally set down the weight of their own resilience.

Blending surrealism with a hint of expressionism, her practice explores the emotional gravity of motherhood and the lingering weight of childhood. Her pieces meditate on the quiet exhaustion of a maternal line, capturing the beautiful tension between the obligation to remain present and the persistent, quiet urge to drift.