About

Marcelle Rosfelder-Leu is a Swiss–Japanese artist of Korean heritage based between London and Zurich. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2025) and an MA in Archaeology from SOAS University of London.

Her practice approaches painting as a field of shifting conditions, where gesture, gravity, and material behaviour interact. Working through processes of pouring, staining, and physical mark-making, her paintings move between dispersion and saturation, as colour and form emerge, withdraw, and reconfigure over time, carrying shifts in intensity, rhythm, and affect. The surface is treated as a permeable site, absorbing, resisting, and transforming, so that each work registers duration, pressure, and change.

In earlier works, fragments of image and figure were layered and disrupted through collage and gesture. More recent series move away from representation toward a materially driven language in which form remains unstable and meaning is continually unsettled. Rather than narrating identity directly, the work operates through processes of appearance and disappearance, holding tensions between control and contingency, presence and absence.

Her third cultural background and early Asian material cultures inform a sensitivity to trace, sedimentation, and transformation, understood not as fixed history but as processes unfolding in time. Her work resonates with the calligraphic abstraction of Yuichi Inoue and the gestural inscriptions of Cy Twombly, while engaging contemporary approaches to material and gesture.

Education

2025: MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

1995: MA in Archaeology, SOAS, University of London, UK

Selected Exhibitions

2026: Repetition and Difference (RCA women’s group show), 14 Cavendish Square, London, UK

2026  Affordable Art Fair (Roots Art Collective group show), Hong Kong

2026: Rén x East (group show), East Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2026: Affordable Art Fair (Roots Collective – group show), Hong Kong

2025: Heaven in a Wildflower (two-person show), The Gallery, London, UK

2025: Let the Dust Settle (group show), Terrace Gallery, London, UK

2025: Royal College of Art Degree Show, London, UK

2024: Art Central (Art Rooftop - group show), Hong Kong

2023: Faith in Humans, Art Roof Top Gallery, Hong Kong

2023: Art Central (Art Roof Top - group show), Hong Kong

2022: Art Central (Art Roof Top - group show), Hong Kong

Selected Press and Talks