Marco Olivier.

Faces and figures in sculpture by the South African artist Marco Olivier.

A textured face sculpture by Marco Olivier, its surface pitted like coral, lying tilted on a black ground.
Artist
Marco Olivier
At
BitBasel Miami 2026, December 2 to 5
Venue
The Sagamore South Beach

About the work

Marco Olivier works in bronze, steel, fiberglass and reclaimed ocean plastics, with textured surfaces and the human form at the center, exploring resilience and emotion.

His work runs from portraiture to large public installations, including a Nelson Mandela sculpture unveiled at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in May 2026.

Works

The sculptures.

The Two of Us - Commitment: two textured bronze-toned figures joined in an arch, one arched backward over the other, balanced on a dark plinth.
The Two of Us - CommitmentShowcaseHandcrafted fiberglass, reinforced steel and mixed media composite, 35.4 x 18.9 x 8.3 in
Obsydian Sun Face: a face with closed eyes, half in gold mosaic tiles and half in black textured fiberglass.
Obsydian Sun FaceHandcrafted fiberglass, reflective mosaic tiles and mixed media composite, 43.3 x 35.4 x 7.9 in
Reflective Dreams: a face with closed eyes covered in small rose gold mosaic tiles.
Reflective DreamsHandcrafted fiberglass, reflective mosaic tiles and mixed media composite, 43.3 x 35.4 in
Pure: a face with closed eyes in blue-green textured fiberglass, photographed at an angle.
PureHandcrafted fiberglass and mixed media composite, 59.1 x 47.2 x 11.8 in

The artist

Marco Olivier.

Portrait of Marco Olivier in a white T-shirt, leaning in a doorway beside a corrugated metal wall.

Marco Olivier is a South African sculptor, born in Upington in 1972 and based in Cape Town, where he founded a bronze casting foundry in 2014. Before sculpture he was an Air Force engineer, a furniture designer and a professional golfer in the United Kingdom.

He has exhibited in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Europe. He was named Best Artist at World Art Dubai, received the Spectrum Miami 2024 Sculpture Award, and was named a Maestro at the Florence Biennale. He showed at BitBasel Miami Art Week 2025 at The Sagamore, his second year in a row.

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