Embodied visuality, materiality, intersubjectivity and vulnerability. With Brigit Baker & Katherine Smith Curated by Anja De Klerk Opening Saturday 31 January 2015 11h00 Atlantic House, 1 Perth Street, Maitland
My work starts out as drawings then unravel the scribbles of their beginnings into three-dimensional objects - a process through which drawing becomes a metaphoric, spatial and plastic journey. I extend this expanded view of drawing, spatially, through materials.
Travelling and working in different locations, my approach and process alternate between two poles: nest-builder and nomad. In my work I build temporary shelters for thoughts - wandering from one place to another, collecting observations, experiences and meaning. I tend to understand this notion of travel as a gesture that enables one to re-view one's position emotionally, socially and politically within a particular geographical locality. In this sense drawing can be used as a tool which allows the mind to wander along the more distant paths of memory and imagination to return with a more acute awareness of the present.
#Decor-Z, Spier Wine Estate (Group show curated by Liza Grobler for Yellowwoods Art)
#Thinking Ultramarine, Atlantic House, Cape Town (Group show with Brigit Baker & Catherine Smith - curated by Anja de Klerk)
2014
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Start up BLACK RIVER STUDIO - a work place for fine art screen printing - with master printmaker and illustrator Wim Legrand
2012
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Working period at sundaymorning@EKWC - European Ceramic Workcentre, The Netherlands.
2011
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Working period at sundaymorning@EKWC - European Ceramic Workcentre, The Netherlands.
2010
# Working period at the Frans Masereel Centre: Large scale etchings and monotypes. I made a series of small monotypes called "19 elastic poems" in preparation for my residency at the European Ceramic Workcentre (NL)
2009
# I spent 3 months at Saari Mansion AIR working on drawings, small scale sculptures and planning and documenting drawing performances for a future project.
# Relocated to Antwerp.
2008
# Solo exhibition: Strange things travel with you
# Complete MA in Visual Arts: Drawing near: Inscribing urban spaces
# A second project with Raumars AIR, Finland. The workshops with 70 learners from Rauman Lukio and Lyseo culminted in an exhibition, Kollaasikaupunki/Collage Cityat Galleria Gylich. The postcards produced as part of this collaboration were distributed commercially as the summer series of postcards for Rauma city.
# Residency at Frans Masereel Centre (Belgium)
# Drawing lecturer, Stellenbosch University Visual Arts department (South Africa)
2007
# Drawing lecturer University of Stellenbosch Visual Arts
# Impact 5 international printmaking conference in Tallin, Estonia.
# African Tahti: Urban intervention in collaboration with Liza Grobler in Finland.The collaboration formed part of a group exhibition "Common Ground: Raumars 10 years" at the Lonnstrom Art Museum in Rauma.
# Raumars AIR My residency in Rauma was dominated by workshops with school groups. These workshops explored relationships between drawing, communication and psychogeograpies. The drawing communication projects culminated in an exhibition of my collaboration with the Finnish students at Galleria Gylich in May 2008.
