Projects
Into The Night
Paintings
These works explore a personal response, to living in Apartheid-era South Africa.
Table Collection
Sculptures, paintings and drawings
The spatial conventions of pictorial and sculptural space are set into a dialectical play of forms and imagery in these sculptures, paintings and drawings.
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Charm Collection
Cast resin sculptures
My recollection of charms goes back to the ubiquitous plastic charms that was available in 1960's South Africa, but which originated from American popular culture. Here I've re-imagined them in an elevated scale to become wall sculptures that can be collected and arranged according to each collector's preference. I've re-designed the charms from my original childhood collection and created new ones drawing on images from popular African culture.
Postcard Collection
Chalk Pastel Drawings
I approach postcards as found objects which carry an image. In these works I examine the physicality of the image, emphasising the textural marks of chalk pastel and exaggerating the three dimensionality of the art object, by making Perspex frames with mirror screws, which literally pierce the drawing paper. In the small Acrylic paintings I've miniaturised the image, thereby bringing the expressiveness of the brushstrokes to the fore.
Commissions
Carrol Boyes Studio
The designer, Carrol Boyes, commissioned the Charm Collection cast in clear resin and installed at her studio in Cape Town.
Bio
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1994 Master of Fine Art (Awarded with Distinction), UCT, South Africa
1982 Bachelor of Fine Art (Awarded with Distinction in History of Art)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1999 "Public Eye", Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town
1997 "Common Objects", AVA Gallery, Cape Town
"Die Ses", District Six, Cape Town
1996 "Space to Breathe", Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
1995 "Denise Penfold", The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg
1986 "Cape Town Triennial 1985", South African National Gallery, Cape Town
ART RELATED WRITING
2023 "Conversation in Absentia", "Bruce Murray Arnott: Into the Megatext", Eds. Mari Lecanides- Arnott and Sven Christian. Cape Town, The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture in association
with Print Matters Heritage. 2023
2008 "Essay", Kevin Brand: Mercedes-Benz Award for Art: Projects in Public Space 2008", Ed.
Renate Wiehager. Cologne, Stieppel Verlag. 2008
APPERANCE IN PUBLICATIONS
2009 "Signature Pieces - The Standard Bank Corporate Collection", The Standard Bank of
South Africa, Johannesburg. 2009
1998 "The District Six Public Sculpture Project". BASA, The District Six Museum Foundation, Arts
and Culture Trust, The Royal Netherlands Embassy. 1998
1989 "Resistance Art in South Africa", Sue Williamson. Cape Town, David Phillip. 1989
1987 "Directory of Contemporary South African Art". Johannesburg, Africus. 1987
1985 "The Triennial 1985". Cape Town, The South African National Gallery. 1985
Contact Info
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