Collect your program – Gauteng

March 28th, 2024

Gallery 2
The Viewing Room Gallery
ABSA Gallery
NWU Arts: Potchefstroom
Standard Bank Gallery
Stephan Welz & Co
Strauss & Co
The Melrose Gallery
“The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum ”
Everard Read
Aspire Art Auctions
Hermanus Fynarts Gallery
Association of Arts Pretoria
University of Johannesburg Art Gallery
UNISA Art Gallery
Oliewenhuis Art Museum

Collect your program – Overberg & Cape Town

March 28th, 2024

GANSBAAI
Gansbaai Tourism
Gansbaai Superette
Red Cross Pharmacy

KLEINBAAI
Kleinbaai Superette
Franskraal Mini Market

STANFORD
Stanford Tourism
Stanford Hills WInery
Ou Meule Bakery
OK Mini Market

HERMANUS – VOELKLIP
Mosselberg on Grotto
Whale Coast Ocean Villa
Lavendar Manor, Guest House
Dutchies
Eastcliff Spar

HERMANUS CENTRE
Chesham House
Bamboo Guest House
Pat’s Place
The Marine Hotel
La Pentola
Hussar Grill
Hermanus Pharmacy
Pure South Gallery
Rossi’s Restaiurant
Oskars Restaurant
Book Cottage
United Church
Eastbury Cottages
Ocean Basket
Fabios Restaurant
Daan’s Bakery
Simply Specials
On Shore Bakery
Dal Italia
The Eatery Restaurant
Dutch Reformed Church
Library

WESTCLIFF
Harbour House Hotel
Windsor Hotel
Heritage Restaurant
La Fonteine
1 Marine Drive, Guest Hse
Hermanus Guest House
Pelagus Guest House
The Rock
The Rock Breakfast Room
FIcks Pool Restaurant

HEMEL-EN-AARDE
Hermanuspietersfontein
Warwick’s Chef School
Biga Restaurant
Wine Village
Whalehaven
Hamilton Russell
Bouchard Finlayson
La Vierge
Plaaskombuis
Bosman Wines
Ataraxia
High Season Farm
Newton Johnson Restaurant
Creation

GATEWAY CENTRE
Alexander Grant Pharmacy
Core Catering

SANDBAAI
Glow Boutique Suites

ONRUS
Riposo Restaurant
C’est Ca
Dutch Reformed Church

BOT RIVER
Benguela Cove (X 2 packs)
Arabella Golf and Hotel (X 2 packs

KLEINMOND
OK Mini Market
Spar
Albertyn Pharmacy
Kleinmond Pharmacy

CAPE TOWN
Artscape Theater (CT)
Baxter Theatre (Rondebosch)
Labia Theatre (CT)
Mosque Theatre (Muizenberg)
Casa Labia (Muizenberg)
Deckle Edge (Salt River)
ArtSource (CT)
Italian Art Shop (Rondebosch)
Village Brush and Canvas (Rondebosch)
Strauss & Co (Salt River)

Collect your programme booklet – Overberg

March 28th, 2024

GANSBAAI
Gansbaai Tourism
Gansbaai Superette
Red Cross Pharmacy

KLEINBAAI
Kleinbaai Superette
Franskraal Mini Market

STANFORD
Stanford Tourism
Stanford Hills WInery
Ou Meule Bakery
OK Mini Market

HERMANUS – VOELKLIP
Mosselberg on Grotto
Whale Coast Ocean Villa
Lavendar Manor, Guest House
Dutchies
Eastcliff Spar

HERMANUS CENTRE
Chesham House
Bamboo Guest House
Pat’s Place
The Marine Hotel
La Pentola
Hussar Grill
Hermanus Pharmacy
Pure South Gallery
Rossi’s Restaiurant
Oskars Restaurant
Book Cottage
United Church
Eastbury Cottages
Ocean Basket
Fabios Restaurant
Daan’s Bakery
Simply Specials
On Shore Bakery
Dal Italia
The Eatery Restaurant
Dutch Reformed Church
Library

WESTCLIFF
Harbour House Hotel
Windsor Hotel
Heritage Restaurant
La Fonteine
1 Marine Drive, Guest Hse
Hermanus Guest House
Pelagus Guest House
The Rock
The Rock Breakfast Room
FIcks Pool Restaurant

HEMEL-EN-AARDE
Hermanuspietersfontein
Warwick’s Chef School
Biga Restaurant
Wine Village
Whalehaven
Hamilton Russell
Bouchard Finlayson
La Vierge
Plaaskombuis
Bosman Wines
Ataraxia
High Season Farm
Newton Johnson Restaurant
Creation

GATEWAY CENTRE
Alexander Grant Pharmacy
Core Catering

SANDBAAI
Glow Boutique Suites

ONRUS
Riposo Restaurant
C’est Ca
Dutch Reformed Church

BOT RIVER
Benguela Cove (X 2 packs)
Arabella Golf and Hotel (X 2 packs

KLEINMOND
OK Mini Market
Spar
Albertyn Pharmacy
Kleinmond Pharmacy

Collect your program in Cradock, Graaff-Reinet, Knysna and Plett

April 28th, 2023

Cradock – Victoria Manor Hotel and Tourist Office
Graaff-Reinet – Tourist Office
Knysna – Art on Queens and The Loft
Plettenberg Bay – Mugg and Bean

Collect your FynArts 2023 Programme-Bot River

March 30th, 2023

Villion Wines
Beaumont Family Wines
Bot River Hotel
Coffee Bliss
Shunting Shed
Gabrielskloof Wines
Wildekrans Wine Estate
Vleisstraat
Ecology

Collect your FynArts 2023 Programme- Hangklip

March 30th, 2023

Rooiels
Rooiels Shop
Rooiels-Kleinmond Total

Pringlebaai
Mini Mart

Bettysbaai
Village Centre Shop
Penguin Place

Kleinmond
Carry Me Home
Bistro 14
Bookshop Between Links
Broodstories
OK Mini Mark
Kleinmond Apteek
Ground Central Coffee shop

Collect your FynArts 2023 Programme – Stanford and Gansbaai

March 27th, 2023

Stanford
Ou Meul
La Cantina
Union Restaurant
Searles
Stanford Tourism
Walkerbay Estate

Gansbaai
Rosemary’s Kitchen
Gansbaai Library
Gansbaai Tourism
Book Exchange
Gansbaai Municipality
African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary

Collect your FynArts 2023 Programme – Hermanus

March 24th, 2023

Galleries and Art Shops
Armand van Rensburg Gallery
Art Thirst
Coral Spencer Art Gallery
Este Mostert Art
Fleurs
Gallery 19
Gallery Charmaine de Jongh Gelderblom
Gallop Hill
Gallery on Main
Geta Finlayson Studio
Intethe
Jones & Co
Marion’s Gallery
Nic van Rensburg Gallery
Originals Gallery
Pure South
Rossouw Modern
Space Modern
Space Curated
The stART
The Art Shop
Walkerbay Modern
Yvette Beneke Art

Accommodation
The Marine Hotel
The Windsor Hotel
Harbour House Hotel
Auberge Burgundy

Wine Farms
Ataraxia
Bartho Eksteen
Benguela Cove
Bouchard Finlayson
Bosman Wines
Creation
Domaine de Dieux
Hamilton Russell
Hermanuspietersfontein
La Vierge
Newton Johnson
Spookfontein
Whalehaven

The Village
C Beyond Health
Refine
The Brewery
The Real You
Warwick Chef School
Wine Village

Restaurants
Heritage Restaurant
Hussar Grill
Ocean Basket
Fabio’s
The Italian Deli

Other
Beach House
Curiositea
Chilli Pepper
Dutch Reformed Church Hermanus
Hermanus Library
Hermanus Pharmacy
Romantiques
Kids Stuff
FinGlobal
Walkerbay Nursery
The Book Cottage
Hermanus Property
The Factory Shop
Wine & Co
Lien Boutique
Kate’s Hairsalon
Onrus Manor
Kidbrooke
Onrus Mini Market
Eastcliff Spar
Eastcliff Nails
Hermanus Golf Club
Onrus Spar
C’est Ca Cooking
Anglican Church
Just Pure
Tip Toes
Pam Golding
Bookmark
Pappin and Pretorius Optometrist
Alex Grant Pharmacy
Eden Cafe
DRC Hermanus
Dr.Tilla

Fisherhaven
Haven Superette

Sandbaai
Overstrand Cafe
Foodzone Superette
Golden Harvest
Nursery

Onrus River
Seeff
Coffee Corner
Onrus Cafe
Greeff/Christies
Milk on Beach
Photo Shed
Onrus Butchery

Hemel & Aarde Village
Creative Notions
Hemel & Aarde Estate

Whale Coast Mall
Mug & Bean
Ocean Creek Spur
Hartlief

Collect your FynArts 2023 Programme – Cape Town and surrounds

March 23rd, 2023

Farm Stalls
Houwhoek – Farmstall
Houwhoek – Coffee Shop
Peregrine
The Orchard

Pinelands
Magica Roma
Pinelands Library
Howard Centre – Coffee Shop
Salt and Lemon

Cape Town
Starke Ayres – Rosebank
Book Lounge
Art Sauce
Labia
Kloof Street Vida e Caffe
The Baxter
Artscape Box Office
Fine Music Radio

Kloofstreet Lifestyle Centre
Mug & Bean
Starbucks
Wine Concepts

Southern Suburbs
Brush and Canvas
Claremont Library
Constantia Village Centre – Spar
Exclusive Books
Woolworths

Newlands
The Avenue Cafe
Montebello Centre – Picnic and Deli

Woodstock
Strauss & Co – Brickfield Canvas, 35 Brickfield Rd,
Brickfield Canvas, 35 Brickfield Rd, – Coffee Shop

Claremont
Cavendish Square, Claremont – Exclusive Books
The Good Stuff
Woodside Village

Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch Tourism
Stellenbosch Library
Pam Golding – Stellenbosch
Die Boord

The Book Collector

January 19th, 2018

Mikhael Subotzky

April 4th, 2024

Mikhael Subotzky’s film, video and photographic works are concerned with the structures of narrative and representation, as well as the relationship between social storytelling and the formal contingencies of image making.

Subotzky’s first body of photographic work, Die Vier Hoeke (The Four Corners), was an in-depth study of the South African penal system. Umjiegwana (The Outside) and Beaufort West extended this investigation to the relationship between everyday life in post-apartheid South Africa and the historical, spatial, and institutional structures of control. Beaufort West (Chris Boot, 2008) was Subotzky’s first monograph and the series was included in the exhibition New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2008).

The exhibition Retinal Shift was produced by Subotzky on the occasion of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2012 and toured South Africa’s major museums. Retinal Shift includes two large photographic and video installations that critically engage with the artist’s own ambivalence towards the processes of representation and image construction. Retinal Shift (Steidl, 2012) was published to accompany the exhibition.

Retinal Shift also includes Subotzky’s first major film installation, Moses and Griffiths 2012, which uses four screens to narrate the contrasting and conflicting institutional and personal histories of two seventy-year-old tour guides in the small South African town of Grahamstown. Moses and Griffiths has subsequently been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2013) Yale Art Gallery (New Haven, 2014) and Art Unlimited (Basel, 2014).

A third monograph, Ponte City (Steidl, 2014) is the product of a six-year collaboration with the British artist Patrick Waterhouse. This project focuses a single 54-story building that dominates the Johannesburg skyline. The building is cast as the central character in a myriad of interweaving narratives that, through photographs, commissioned texts, historical documents, and urban myths, chart the convoluted histories of both the building and Johannesburg itself. The Ponte City exhibition, which consists of a single installation of thousands of photographs and documents, has been exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh, 2014), FoMU (Antwerp, 2014) and Le Bal (Paris, 2014). Excerpts from the series have been shown at the Liverpool (2012) and Lubumbashi (2013) Biennales, as well as the South African National Gallery (Cape Town, 2010). Ponte City has won the 2015 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.

Show ‘n Tell was initiated while on residency at the Musée MAC/VAL (Paris, 2013). This body of work looks to the relationship between images, the various instruments of their construction, and both the politics and physiology of their reception. Pixel Interface, a multi-component video installation from this body of work was included in All The World’s Futures, the main exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor at the 56th Venice Biennale. WYE, Subotzky’s first fictional film installation, was commissioned by the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (Sydney) and premiered there in March 2016. Yellow Bile (or Work in Progress), his first exhibition of paintings and performance, took place at Maitland Institute in September 2017.

Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently based in Johannesburg.

Subotzky’s work is collected widely by international institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Solomon R Guggenheim Museum (New York), the National Gallery of Art (Washington), Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the South African National Gallery, among others.

Mikhael Subotzky

March 20th, 2024

Curated by Subotzky Studio and Goodman Gallery

“At the heart of my work is a fixation with revealing the gap between what is presented (and idealised) and what is
hidden, coupled with a desire to pull apart and reassemble the schizophrenia of contemporary existence”.

Mikhael’s first body of photographic work, Die Vier Hoeke (The Four Corners), was an in-depth study of the South African penal system. Umjiegwana (The Outside) and Beaufort West extended this investigation to the relationship between everyday life in post-apartheid South Africa and the historical, spatial, and institutional
structures of control.

His works are found in public and private collections around the world including the MoMA, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Tate Modern and South African National Galleries (SANG), among others. This exhibition draws from his early
photographic works as well as more recent related collage and works on canvas.

Mikhael was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently based in Johannesburg.

Artists @ the Quay

March 14th, 2024

A Visual Journey
Group Exhibition

A collection of works by Overberg artists, who invite you to join them in celebrating this Visual Journey.

Rossouw Modern

March 14th, 2024

Group Exhibition

The Gallery will present a collection of established and emerging South African artists, including new kid on the block, Namibian thread artist Leandro Solomons.

Marion Dixon

March 8th, 2024

After 25 years in the corporate world Marion Dixon decided to follow her longtime interest in art and obtained a Master’s in History of Art from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining Strauss & Co as senior art specialist in Johannesburg eight years ago, she consulted on corporate art collections, curated exhibitions, notably Water: The Delicate Thread of Life at Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, and worked as curator of the Constitutional Court Art Collection. Marion moved to Stellenbosch two years ago and now represents Strauss & Co in the Winelands.

Jazzart Dance Theatre Company

March 8th, 2024

Jazzart Dance Theatre is acknowledged as the oldest contemporary dance company in the country. It has exerted a powerful influence on the development of dance in South Africa, and continues to do so. The Jazzart methodology ensures that strong technique is matched with a uniquely South African dance philosophy that is rooted in the diversity of the culture and traditions of our country. Its prodigious creative output allows it to use dance as a transformative tool and to fully interrogate social awareness and cultural inclusiveness.

Jazzart is based at The Artscape Theatre in Cape Town and conducts its full-time training programme alongside the professional company in Cape Town, while running outreach programmes and production touring across the country and internationally. Under the Artistic Direction of Dane Hurst, Jazzart has cultivated a diverse collection of powerful, thought-provoking, and celebratory works created by award-winning artists and choreographers.

Volley Nchabeleng

March 8th, 2024

Volley is a multi-talented and versatile international percussionist who is also a composer, singer and producer. He worked in theatre for five years as a playback musician and created soundscapes for theatre productions such as Africa my love and Makhulu, which toured Europe between 2009 and 2012, as well as Ekhaya by the Tribhangi Dance Company. He was the percussionist for Shaka Zulu the musical as well as the television series, Shaka (Ilembe), and Ankobia by Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi and Omphile Molusi, to name but a few.

Volley’s musical genius resonates from a rather versatile perspective and the influence of diverse world sounds. A recipient of the 2022 SAACs lifetime achievement award and Naledi Theatre awards nominee, he is a traveller of note who has played music on six continents and collected instruments around Africa. He has represented South Africa on the world stage at several events, including the BRICS Cultural Festival, Dubai World Expo, and more recently in India as part of the G20 Sur Vasudha Orchestra.

Volley is one of the collaborators at The Centre for the Less Good Idea led by William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace. Apart from composing and performing around the world, his focus is on collecting indigenous musical instruments and teaching the coming generation

The Jewellery System

March 4th, 2024

The Jewellery System celebrates artistry and craftsmanship in a curated collection of stunning jewellery pieces reflecting the passion and skill of master jeweller Johan van Zyl. Be inspired by the creativity behind each unique piece.

Reinet de Jager Art

March 4th, 2024

Canvas of Life

Reinet is a diverse artist who is currently creating mixed media art pieces. Using collected objects, she creates different textures by working with wire, wood, stitching, and fabrics on canvas and board.

Intethe Art Gallery

March 4th, 2024

If Music be the Food of Love
Group Exhibition

A collection of paintings, drawings, ceramics, and sculpture by award-winning artists offering interpretations of the power of music within human expression – its emotional range and ability to uplift, communicate and comfort.

Short Stories

March 3rd, 2024

‘A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage,’ as Lorrie Moore has famously proclaimed. With projects like Short Story Day Africa and Short.Sharp.Stories regularly bringing out captivating short story anthologies, and Karavan Press publishing several collections, the short story is certainly in the spotlight.

Karina, who is involved in all these initiatives, talks about her love for the short form and why she is intrigued, rather than threatened, AI’s contribution to fiction.

Sydney Kumalo & Ezrom Legae

March 1st, 2024

Modernist sculptors Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae were two of the most important artists of the 20th
century. Senior art specialist Marion will tell their story, based on the work of authors Gavin Watkins and Charles
Skinner, who spent 25 years researching and writing The Sculptures of Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae
— A Catalogue Raisonné, published by Strauss & Co.

These artists exhibited broadly in South Africa,England, Italy and the United States during the 1960s – 1990s and
their work remains much sought after by private collectors and public museums and institutions.

Limitless 2

February 29th, 2024

This exciting production from the award-winning Jazzart Dance Theatre Company features new dance works and
repertoire from Jazzart’s 50 years of Dance Celebratory Festival in 2023, marking an historic milestone since
being founded in 1973.

Under the Artistic Direction of Dane Hurst, Jazzart has cultivated a diverse collection of powerful, thoughtprovoking, and celebratory works created by awardwinning artists and choreographers.

Thanks to Foundation Coke for generously sponsoring both Jazzart performances.

Limitless 1

February 29th, 2024

This exciting production from the award-winning Jazzart Dance Theatre Company features new dance works and
repertoire from Jazzart’s 50 years of Dance Celebratory Festival in 2023, marking an historic milestone since
being founded in 1973.

Under the Artistic Direction of Dane Hurst, Jazzart has cultivated a diverse collection of powerful, thought-provoking, and celebratory works created by award-winning artists and choreographers.

Thanks to Foundation Coke for generously sponsoring both Jazzart performances.

Amani ya Ndani

January 26th, 2024

The meaning of amani ya ndani is ‘inner peace’ in Swahili – the best way to describe this electrifying performance by two multi-instrumentalists who will take their audience on a journey of healing African sounds.

This promises to be a unique experience with the talented duo exhibiting their mastery of various indigenous African musical instruments collected from countries all over the continent, including marimba, mbira, lekope and many others. Let the sounds of nature embrace you through their mesmerising music.

Grateful thanks to Foundation Coke for generously sponsoring this performance.

FynArts Workshop Weekend

October 10th, 2023

Le Sweet Shweshwe Sac – Dal Botha
DATE: SAT 4 November 2023
TIME: 10:00 – 12:30
VENUE: Windsor Hotel
TICKETS: R350 incl. biscuits and tea/coffee
Let your imagination run as you decorate your shweshwe ‘across-body’ bag with various felt shapes, fabric beads and stitching. Your bag can hold your cellphone and keys when you are out for a walk or can make a lovely gift for someone who uses a walker or cane. You will also learn how to make fabric beads which can be used in many different ways. All materials will be provided.

Floral Abundance – Shirley Kruger
DATE: SAT 4 November 2023
TIME: 11:00 – 15:00
VENUE: TBC on booking
TICKETS: R550 incl. a light lunch
Learn first-hand how abundance is so simple when you put together a few amazing flowers. This workshop will be presented by Shirley Kruger who is much admired for her creative floral arrangements that grace the entrance, public and private rooms at The Marine Hotel. Says Shirley, “…I am just in a happy place when working with flowers.” Join Shirley in her happy place for a few hours.

Create your own collection of unique Botanical Monoprints – Monique Day Wilde
DATE: SUN 5 November 2023
TIME: 10:00 – 12:30
VENUE: Windsor Hotel
TICKETS: R550 incl. biscuits and tea/coffee
Monique will introduce you to a few printing techniques using physical plant specimens and textures to create one of a kind artworks. She will also share tips on using different kinds of paper and inks, as well as the recipe to make a gelatine plate.

Slow stitching – Monique Day Wilde
DATE: SUN 5 November 2023
TIME: 14:00 – 16:30
VENUE: Windsor Hotel
TICKETS: R600 incl. biscuits and tea/coffee
Stitching by hand is wonderful way in which to enrich simple mark making on fabric or paper, whether it be abstract or pictorial. You will be given an already painted piece of fabric in a watery ‘pattern’ to interpret in your own way, using a number of simple stitches and their variations. With a focus on colour, line and texture, Monique will demonstrate how she enriches painted backgrounds with stitching.

Book Now on webtickets – https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1534824538
and www.hermanusfynarts.co.za or at the FynArts Gallery, 2 Harbour Road, The Courtyard or call Chantel on 060 957 5371.

NB. Remember to visit Abundance the excellent fibre art exhibition that will open on 7 October at 11:00 at the FynArts Gallery. The exhibition closes on Sunday 12 November at 14:00.

Blue de Gersigny

April 28th, 2023

In the past my work was inspired by my collection of natural objects, but over the last few years I have transitioned to collecting plastics, almost exclusively.
 
Living beside the sea it is hard to ignore the awfulness of plastic pollution. It’s relentlessness. As long as the waves roll in, so will the plastic. This unsolicited companionship.
 
And so I pick it up, take it home, sort it by colour, size or shape. Create in a way that will maybe give reason to pause, awaken thought and spark conversation. In short, to create awareness of this devastating crisis that threatens our world.

Nastasha Sale

April 3rd, 2023

Nastasha Minyon Sale specialises in textile art and is the creator of ‘The Adorned’, a unique range of homeware offering 100% sustainable products that embody the handiwork of an artisan and the soft colours of nature. Working with warm earthy tones taken from nature herself, she uses pure plant dyes that are made naturally, by extracting the pigment from organic plant waste. The hand-dyed textiles are high quality 100% plant based and biodegradable. Organic cotton, linen and hemp are hand block printed with a hand-carved lino-block stamp made by the artist herself. Nastasha lives and works in the Overberg village of Napier where she is part of the Napier Art
Collective with fellow artists Jason Wyness and Alex Hamilton.

Gretchen Crots

March 7th, 2023

Born on 24th March 1995 in Kroonstad in the Free state. Moved to Parys at the age of 6 and matriculated at Parys High school in 2013. Studied BA Graphic Design at NWU Pukke, Potchefstroom campus- graduated in 2020.

Having a mother who is a full time ceramic artist meant always having clay and ceramics readily available growing up. I’ve always had my hands in clay when I grew up, but only started finding my own style and voice in my art during high school. Throughout University I have made various works for small exhibitions and entered a ceramic work into the Sasol New Signatures competition in 2017, where I was one of the 7 finalists and merit award winners. In 2018 I entered the competition again and wound up having my ceramic piece showcased among the top 100 artists whose work was exhibited at the Pretoria Art museum.

After graduating, I have become a full time ceramic artist. Now residing in Parys, I have had ceramic works exhibited in various group exhibitions- including at SMAC Gallery, Haas Collective, Saronsberg Kunsteater and Grande Provence.

My work mainly consists of a contemporary take on age old motifs found on antique porcelain and ceramics- such as the Willow pattern and Dutch delft. Dark humour and cultural/societal references are paired with intricate reimagined floral designs or the new age take on delft or the Willow pattern. I am often inspired by South African history, cultural objects, nature and current societal affairs, which can more often than not be found in my work.

Sean O’Toole

March 3rd, 2023

Born in 1968 in Pretoria, Sean O’Toole is a Cape Town-based journalist and writer. Formerly editor of Art South Africa, a quarterly print magazine focusing on contemporary South African and African art, he also writes a weekly column on photography for the Sunday Times and a biweekly art column for the Financial Mail. His journalism has appeared in, among other titles, BBC Focus on Africa, Colors, Creative Review, Eye, frieze, GEO, ID and Kyoto Journal. A former editor of artthrob.co.za, he guest edited a 2002 edition of Design Indaba magazine. His writings and essays have appeared in a number of books. These include Ghetto (2004) by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin; Joburg Circa Now (2004) by Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractliffe; My Dad (2006), a collection of essays on fatherhood; These Are a Few of Our Favourite Things (2007), a jointly authored studio retrospective profiling design agency Disturbance; and The Ceramic Art of Robert Hodgins (2007), a profile of well-known painter Robert Hodgins. A published short story writer, his debut collection, The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories (Double Storey, 2006), included a short fiction awarded the 2006 HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award, judged by JM Coetzee. O’Toole holds separate degrees in English literature, law and creative writing.

Vicki Thomas

March 2nd, 2023

Vicki lives within the Cape Floral Kingdom at Betty’s Bay in South Africa and is currently developing the Grootbos Florilegium depicting iconic plants from a native fynbos conservancy. She has works in many collections including the Shirley Sherwood collection in the UK, the Highgrove, Transylvanian and Sydney florilegia and in many scientific publications and books on botanical art.

She teaches botanical art and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. Vicki was born in 1951, spent her youth in Zambia, started botanical art at the age of 27 and was instrumental in forming the Botanical Artists’ Association of South Africa in 1999. Her work was recently shown in the Netherlands.

Yvette Beneke

February 7th, 2023

Yvette was born in 1969 and grew up in Bloemfontein. She studied Architecture and after her studies moved to Cape Town where she started working in the profession for 10 years, renovating old houses and restoring them to their former beauty.

After her children were born she found the demands of the architectural and building industry too much and decided to take up her art again. She enrolled in art classes and quickly discovered her love for the palette knife. A slight obsession got hold of her and for about two years she only focussed on mastering this technique.
She only works in oils and her themes are all very feminine and ethereal.

“I love all things in nature, especially flowers and birds. I have a little vegetable garden which is surrounded by roses which I tend to as if precious little gems. These roses form the subjects of most of my paintings, together with my collection of pots that I have accumulated over the past 30 years, some of which are more than a century old.”

Yvette currently resides with her family in the heart of the Durbanville winelands. She plans to move permanently to Hermanus as soon as her youngest finishes school.

Conrad Hicks

February 2nd, 2023

Conrad Hicks was born in Cape Town in 1966. He studied Art and Design at The Cape Technikon and graduated with a distinction in 1986. Conrad specializes in hand-forged metalwork and uses this technique in his sculptures as well as in his architectural and interior design projects. His forge is housed in The Bijou, an old Art Deco cinema in Observatory, which he bought and began restoring in 1998.
Conrad works on a broad variety of commissions which range from architectural projects to sculptures for private collections. He was the commission to design the prestigious Kirstenbosch Gates in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. He designed the metal gates, screens, doors, and spiral staircase for Tokara Winery and also created the gates at The Cape Quarter.

Adèle Fouché

January 25th, 2023

Currently based in Hermanus, Adèle has spent the past 15 years mastering oil painting and the past 30 years practising various artistic disciplines, as well as teaching art internationally. She holds a BA Hons degree in Drama and Theatre (Cum Laude) as well as a Postgraduate degree in Higher Education.

Adèle has sold extensively to collectors locally and abroad. Mainly self-taught, she has worked under master artists such as Cornelia Smook, David May and Lorette Espi, and has extensively studied techniques and methods of artists through the ages. Adèle believes that experimenting and working in a variety of creative endeavours stimulates this process and has returned to her first love, sculpture.

Well-known to the Western Cape art scene, she has exhibited here for the past 12 years in joint exhibitions with artists such as Nanette Ranger, Selwyn Pekeur, Willie Bester, Jeffry Appollis, Arno Carstens and Corinne De Haas, and has held multiple successful solo exhibitions.

Paula Louw

January 24th, 2023

Paula Louw makes use of old, unusual and often odd materials and techniques ranging across several disciplines – sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. Much of this involves the disassembling of machines like typewriters, guns and even pianos.

Paula has an MA in Fine Arts from Wits University (cum laude, 2006), a BA in Fine Arts from Unisa (with distinction, 2002) and a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Pretoria Technikon (1976). She lives in Hermanus, where she works in both two and three dimensions, and exhibits and teaches regularly. Her work can be seen as flowing in two distinct streams – one comprises contemporary, conceptual art and the other comprises commissions for clients such as portraits and landscapes.

Paula has works in a number of collections, both in South Africa and overseas in countries such as the UK, France, Australia and the USA.

ORMS Print Room and Framing

January 13th, 2023

Born from the commitment to evolving with the needs of photographers of every level, Orms Print Room & Framing is what ultimately set us apart from your average photography store. It’s our way of bringing your prized work to life, and keeping creativity alive through excellence and craftsmanship.

Orms Print Room & Framing offers comprehensive decor solutions, from customised framing and artwork conservation to fine art reproduction in line with the best international standards. Now you can customise anything your heart desires; from your very own wallpaper to inspired pieces for your home or office. These services, of course, are just the tip of the iceberg.

Bring in your artwork or source from our extensive photographic collection. One of our friendly consultants will be able to guide you through this journey to ensure that your Orms experience is absolutely effortless. Don’t worry if you aren’t based in Cape Town – we will ship straight to you, anywhere in South Africa.

You’ll find our dedicated Print Room & Framing hub in Roeland Street, where you can ask questions, get inspired and receive expert advice.

Lella Kondylis

January 6th, 2023

Lella Kondylis has been involved in the art world for quite some time. She was a decorative painter specializing in trompe l’oeil for 15 years. She established the Art Department at Capricorn Primary in Vrygrond, where she worked as a volunteer.

Once she closed her business ,she set up her studio teaching children art classes and trained as an ASTAR facilitator. She has always felt drawn to pottery, in 2017 she decided to try her hand at porcelain. She bought a kiln so she could control every aspect of the process. She works very organically and is never quite sure where the design is taking her.
Her love of nature is reflected in her work. A keen hiker and rockpool explorer she finds inspiration in the abundance and beauty that surrounds her.
Lella has been involved in numerous group exhibitions in Cape Town, Hermanus and Riebeek Kasteel. She supplies galleries around South Africa and sends work abroad. She is currently working on her largest commission for a private collector.
Her philosophy is that it is important to have fun playing with porcelain!

Karina M. Szczurek

December 20th, 2022

Born in Poland, Karina M. Szczurek lived in Austria, the United States and Wales, before finding a home in South Africa. She is the author and (co)editor of a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently a memoir, The Fifth Mrs Brink, a collection of letters, You Make Me Possible: The Love Letters of Karina M. Szczurek and André Brink, and an anthology, Fluid: Freedom to Be.

She won the MML Literature Award in the Category English Drama in 2012 and received the Thomas Pringle Award for a portfolio of ad hoc reviews from the English Academy of Southern Africa in 2018. She is also a board member of Short Story Day Africa. In 2019, she founded Karavan Press, an independent publishing house, and a year later, established the Philida Literary Award.

Lindi Perrin

December 17th, 2022

Culminating in 39 years of experience in the food industry, including many collective collaborations, Lindi’s career started after she graduated with a Grande Diploma from Silwood Kitchen Cordon Bleu School of Cookery in Cape Town.

Lindi runs C’est Ca Cooking which is a fun, informal, social cookery school from her bespoke kitchen at her home in Onrus River. She also hosts monthly themed pop up dinners.

Inspired by her international travels, her classes are varied and include global cuisines. She has also specialized in cooking on the Weber braai for the past 17 years.

Her passion for teaching and sharing her knowledge, allows participants to confidently prepare fuss-free fare. Her recipes are creative, meticulously crafted and easy to replicate.

Focussing on local produce and fresh flavours, Lindi personally sources the best seasonal ingredients, preparing mouth-watering menus to entice foodies and anyone keen on broadening their culinary skills to entertain family and friends.

New exhibition: Plastics are Forever

October 18th, 2022

For many years, artist, Blue de Gersigny has absorbed the beauty of beaches and the wonders of nature. In the past her artworks were inspired by her collection of items of nature. However, over the past few years Blue has transitioned almost exclusively into collecting the plastics items, scraps and fragments littering the beaches from Quoin Point to Die Plaat.

She then sorts these debris by colour, size or shape and creates then into artworks in a way that gives reason to pause, awaken thought and spark conversation. In short, to create awareness of this devastating crisis that threatens our world.
Plastics really are forever.

David Griessel

March 21st, 2022

David was born (1990) and raised in Bloemfontein. He completed his BA in Fine Arts at the University of The Free State in 2012. He has since then been a full time award winning artists and picture book illustrator. He has exhibited at many commercial galleries and three museums in South Africa and also had an open studio / book launch in France during an art residency at Draw International, Caylus. His work is in private collections all over the world.

He is represented by Art@Africa in Cape Town and Julie Miller African Contemporary in Johannesburg.

Introducing: Jaco Sieberhagen

September 14th, 2021

Jaco Sieberhagen is well established within the South African art industry and is currently based in Onrus. He holds a BA degree from the University of Port Elizabeth, a BTh from the University of Stellenbosch and was an occasional student in sculpture under Prof. Jos Nell at Rhodes University.

Sieberhagen has taken part in numerous local and international exhibitions and has had 15 solo exhibitions. Monumental sculptures of the artist are in sculpture parks and office buildings as far afield as England, India, China, Australia, Switzerland, Holland and Taiwan, but he has also done large works in SA for Hollards Head Offices in Johannesburg, Cape Gate Head Offices in Vanderbijlpark , Q-square in Worcester, Jan Marais Nature Reserve, Stellenbosch and Leeu Collection in Franschhoek to name but a few.

Furthermore his works are in private collection all over the world and has already been incorporated in 28 corporate collections, including The South African Constitutional Court, Development Bank of South Africa, University of Stellenbosch, Cell-C, Sasol, RMB and Sanlam.

Click here for Jaco’s full CV

FynArts Newsletter 2/2020

March 4th, 2020

Tuning up for FynArts 2020
Soloist Jordon Brooks (violin) and the FynArts Festival Orchestra conducted by Richard Cock will perform the Opening concert, Basically Beethoven. FynArts will join the rest of the world in celebrating Beethoven 250 – the life and music of the composer.

The program will include a selection of Beethoven’s best loved works, including the dramatic Coriolanus Overture and Symphony no8.

Don’t miss this grand opening concert – the gateway to the festival.

In newsletter #3 we will announce the opening day of ticket sales as well as where you can collect your programme booklet for FynArts 2020.

Warm wishes
Mary Faure
Festival Director

Charmaine Haines

February 1st, 2019

Charmaine Haines trained under Hylton Nel at the Port Elizabeth Technikon and obtained a Higher Diploma in Ceramic Design in 1985. She lectured in Ceramic Design until 2002 when she relinquished her post to devote herself to producing her own work. Working within the realm of figurative clay, Charmaine uses both abstract and stylized symbols and motives to embellish both her sculptural and utility forms. Vessels are thrown and altered to incorporate sculptural and semi-relief elements. Coloured stains and natural oxide washes are used to enhance the manipulative and expressive quality of the clay surface. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in South Africa and overseas. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Associació Ceramistes de Catalunya Gallery. Barcelona. Spain. Her work has been selected for several Biennales namely, the Internationale Ceramique D’Art Biennale, Vallauris, France, the Johannesburg Biennale and as a finalist for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial Exhibition in 2006. Her work is represented in numerous public and private collections. She returned to South Africa in 2008 after spending three years in France and now lives in Nieu Bethesda. In 2010 she was made a Fellow of the Ceramics Southern Africa Association in recognition of her contribution to Ceramics in South Africa.
Living and working in Nieu Bethesda, I continue to explore my ongoing fascination for Ancient Cultures, African Artifacts and Medieval Iconic Art which embodies a broad interest in the history of art and craft from ancient to industrial.
The natural Karoo environment plays an integral part in my day to day source of inspiration. It continues to be a place of extremes where the weather has a major influence creating an awareness of both life and death where small things matter.
I’m surrounded by the evidence that the Karoo was once an ancient sea.
– fish and birds have always been part of my iconography. Together with my portraits they’ve become autobiographical design elements that repeat themselves throughout my work adding both a narrative and mythical presence to the forms.

Ian Redelinghuys

January 31st, 2019

Born in Johannesburg, Ian obtained a Fine Art Diploma and Teacher’s Diploma from the Technikon Pretoria (now the Tshwane University of Technology) and a Masters degree in Art and Design from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. Formerly, he was Head of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the Tshwane University of Technology for17 years and taught there for 42 years.

Ian has exhibited extensively in this country and abroad. His work is represented in several private and public art collections locally and internationally

Diane Heesom-Greene

January 30th, 2019

After Matriculating at Westville Girls High School, Dianne studied Art and Higher Eductation at the Natal Art School and University of Natal, majoring in sculpture under Peter Shultz.
Feeling that a teaching post was too premature considering she knew nothing about anything except school and books, she left for Cape Town. After 12 years of designing and working within the computer and forms industry in Cape Town and England, Dianne decided high finance and corporate life could do without her and returned to Cape Town in 1995.

Finally, knowing a little more about life, Dianne felt ready to teach and opened a ceramic studio in Cape Town, then later in Paternoster. Since then she has been teaching, exhibiting and generally exploring the ceramic medium and painting in oils.

Her work is found in homes and collections across Europe and within her homeland, South Africa.

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Opening adress: Lwandiso Njara Exhibition

August 22nd, 2018

Lwandiso Njara – Afrofuturist – Engineering the New Jerusalem
I have had the privilege of being a marker of Lwandiso Njara’s graduate work at TUT, of showing on two person shows with him, opening various exhibitions of his work and I own a few works of his in my collection. So I was extremely honored to be asked to open his “Engineering the New Jerusalem” exhibition at FynArts Gallery in Hermanus last week. It was great to have a well sized crowd and to have Council members and local dignitaries in attendance. It was heartwarming too to have people listen intently, participate in the discussion and ask pertinent questions afterwards.
Njara has for many years developed a body of work, initially in sculpture and now in drawing, that investigates the hybridity of contemporary African people. This hybridity is based directly on his own life experience, growing up in a rural setting within his Xhosa tradition and at the same time being taught by Catholic Sisters at the Convent school. This is a common experience of many young African people and leads to potential clashes of ideology and cultural practices and forces the artist in this case to make art that attempts to engage with this phenomenon.
However, for Njara, there is a third aspect of hybridity to engage with, and that is the aspect of technology. I see his work as that of an Afrofuturist that is embracing the past and yet firmly on a trajectory to the future. He imagines the fusion of technology and the human body as well as aspects of the animal body into a hybrid of the future. Taking the strength and instinct of the animal, the thought capacity of the human and the technical qualities of technology and combining these in an almost cyborg way into this ‘new’ creature, the African of the future. He extends this idea into machines taking on animalistic qualities almost embodying the spirit of the animal. This is most pertinently seen in the series of high speed trains that grow horns and eventually morph in to high speed animal trains.
This morphing of animal and human in art and writing is not new and harks back to Greek and Roman mythology and to tales of ancient civilizations where animal and human characteristics are blended in order to tell a tale that has a moralistic tone. Njara’s work stems from this tradition but with a new twist. His body of work comes from this place of historical narrative but is personalized through his own life experience. This hybridity (which does not come from a place of darkness, evil or Satanism) is not without its own problems. Njara like so many people of his age bears the struggle of being both rural and urban and how at times each of these aspects is misunderstood by those around him. There is the City Lwandiso who struggles to fit into the Rural Lwandiso’s clothes when back in Transkie. And by contrast, the rural Lwandiso has to adapt his country ways when emerging in the city. This can lead to severe contradictions, criticisms by peers and family and a certain amount of self-doubt and struggle. His art is his way of trying to deal with the hybridity and yet look to a positive way of facing the future. This is where the mechanical and technological aspect come into play to engineer the New Jerusalem, a nod to the biblical future city that is the home of heaven on earth.
This brave, remarkable show that is beautifully rendered in charcoal and pencil brings the hybrid of an imagined future with reference to the 4th industrial revolution and the inherent past of the human and the animal into being as a positivist statement on where mankind and particularly Africa is going. Njara is no longer an emerging artist, but a well – established thinker that takes his rightful place in the South African artworld and will go on to be a thought leader on the future of Africans in a changing global environment.

For more information on Lwandiso – click here

Gordon Froud
Senior Lecturer
FADA
Visula Art Department
University of Johannesburg

FynArts 2018 – Thank You

July 25th, 2018

Thanks to the loyal support of festival goers and the growing number of new festival visitors, Hermanus FynArts 2018 has once again reached record numbers. We hope that you enjoyed the festival and all that Hermanus has to offer.

We cannot mention all our advisors, supporters, stakeholders and benefactors individually but we do want to highlight some of the significant support commitments to the success of FynArts 2018.

Thank you to the Friends of FynArts and the team of volunteers and advisors who work hard to ensure the festival runs as smoothly as possible. Thank you also to the home-owners for their hospitality in opening their homes and studios for the Pam Golding Series of House Concerts, the Private Collections as well as Meet the Artists tours, workshops and readings – and our appreciation to the galleries (in town and on wine routes) for once again hosting special FynArts exhibitions.

Grateful thanks to our sponsors this year, without your generous support the FynArts festival and its wide-ranging program would not be possible.

Signature Sponsors
Bouchard Finlayson, Strauss & Co, Pam Golding Properties
Event Sponsors
ATKV, Amorim Cork and Dyks van Heerden Group of Companies
Festival Sponsors
BASA, Cape Whale Coast Tourism and WESGRO
Sponsors In-kind
Hermanuspietersfontein, First Car Rental, SA Art Times, Overstrand Municipality.
Abagold, Benguela Cove, Boschendal, Bosman Family Vineyards, Cape Pottery Supplies, Davidsons Boards, D’lish @ CEM Motors, Dutchies Restaurant, Gas Hub, LB Seafood Bistro, Mountain Falls Water, Newton Johnson, Oak Valley Flowers, Oasis Water, Paul Cluver Estate, Pretorius Meubels, Reinders Kilns & Clay, Whalehaven, Wildekrans and Woolworths
Local Media Partners
The Village News, Hermanus Times, Whale Coast FM, Splash and Whale Talk
Accommodation and Venue Sponsors
Windsor Hotel, The Marine Hotel
Accommodation: 1 Marine Drive, 78 on 5th, Brown Jug, Fernkloof Lodge, FrancolinHof, Hermanus Guest House, Mosselberg on Grotto, Nantucket , Ocean Eleven, On the Cliff Lodge, Pat’s Place, Shores Edge, Selkirk House, The Mayflower and Whale Rock Lodge
Venue: Anglican Church, Creative Notions, Enlighten Education Trust, Soul Cafe, Synagogue, The Book Collector, United Church.

Thank you to all of the above as well as to everyone else who participated in FynArts this year. We greatly appreciate your support in keeping FynArts alive, well and growing in Hermanus.

With warm regards
Mary Faure, Festival Director, and the FynArts Team

Where to get your FynArts programme

March 1st, 2018

You can now collect your copy of this months SA Art Times with the FynArts program booklet at the following outlets:

WESTERN CAPE
Strauss & Co
Rust-en-Vrede Art Gallery
Heather Auer Art & Sculpture Gallery
Eclectica Design and Art/Eclectica Contemporary, Eclectica Print Gallery
The Book Lounge
Cape Gallery
Ebony
Fugard Theater
Lutge Gallery
Michaelis School of Fine Art (UCT)
Spin Street Restaurant Gallery
G2 Art Gallery
StateoftheArt Gallery
Gallery F
Gallery F/Ndiza Gallery
Gallery Momo
Ground Art Caffe
Young Blood Africa
Red Bree Street
Labia Theatre (Orange Str)
Association for Visual Arts (AVA)
Central Library
SA National Gallery
Salon 91 Contemporary Art Collection
Artsauce – Art Shop
Exclusive Books, Waterfront
Everard Read Gallery
Blanc Canvas
ArtLab
Deckle Edge
SA Print Gallery
SMAC Gallery
The Framing Place
Irma Stern Museum
SA Art Times
The Italian Art Shop
Omni
Kelvin Grove
David Krut Projects
Vineyard Hotel & Spa
Village Brush & Canvas
Exclusive Books
In Fin Art
Stephan Welz & Company
Exclusive Books
Red! The Gallery
Kalk Bay Modern
Artvark
Papermoon
Art B Gallery
Stellenbosch Art Gallery
Absolute Art Gallery
ArtEC EPSAC Community Art Centre
RK CONTEMPORARY GALLERY
Palette Art Gallery and Vincent Art Gallery
Holden Manz
Art in the Yard Gallery
Slee Gallery
Crouse Art Gallery
Chris Tugwell
Robertson Art Gallery
Sheena Ridley
Cape Pallette Art Gallery
Artat39Long
White House Gallery
Y & M Studios
In-Fin-Art Picture Framers & Art Gallery
Is Art
Kim Dondaldson Gallery
Priest Gallery
Teresa Decinti Fine Art,
Stellenbosch Art Gallery
Smith Gallery
Vincent Art Gallery
Imibala Gallery
Imibala Gallery
Philippa Kotzen
The Gallery @ Glen Carlou
Pretoira Kuns Kamer
Dietmar Wiening
St Loreint
Barnard Gallery

JOHANNESBURG
Winsens Canvases
ABSA Gallery
Lizamore and Associates
Standard Bank Gallery
University of Johannesburg Art Gallery
Pretoria Association of Arts
Everard Read
Herbert Evans Art Shop
Alice Art Gallery
Candice Berman
Grahams Fine Art
Rovos Rail Station
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Palette Art Gallery and Vincent Art Gallery
Holden Manz
Art in the Yard Gallery
Slee Gallery
Crouse Art Gallery
Chris Tugwell
Robertson Art Gallery
Sheena Ridley
Cape Pallette Art Gallery
Artat39Long
White House Gallery
Y & M Studios
In-Fin-Art Picture Framers & Art Gallery
Is Art
Kim Dondaldson Gallery
Priest Gallery
Teresa Decinti Fine Art,
Stellenbosch Art Gallery
Smith Gallery
Vincent Art Gallery
Imibala Gallery
Imibala Gallery
Philippa Kotzen
The Gallery @ Glen Carlou
Pretoira Kuns Kamer
Dietmar Wiening
St Loreint

Dal Botha

February 7th, 2018

Dal has thirty years’ experience as a traditional quilter concentrating mainly on handwork, rather than machine work. She is an accredited quilt teacher and quilt judge with the South African Quilters’ Guild. She has lived in various countries around the world and has been involved in quilting in each of these.

Dal has benefited greatly from exposure to different cultures and has gathered experience in the use of varied techniques from contact with international quilters. She utilises these in her fibre art and enjoys the challenge of breaking free from patterns and creating original work.

She has participated in exhibitions in South Africa and Singapore and her work is in private collections both in South Africa and abroad. Dal has curated the annual FynArts fibre art exhibition for the past ten years and was a guest curator of the Diversity Fibre Art Exhibition at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch.

Alfred Schaffer

February 6th, 2018

Alfred Schaffer grew up in The Hague, the son of a Limburger and an Aruban. In 1996, he moved to Cape Town, South Africa to continue his studies and met his future wife. He returned to the Netherlands in 2005 and worked as an editor in Dutch publishing before moving back to South Africa in 2011. He currently works as a lecturer at Stellenbosch University.

In 2014, Schaffer’s poetry collection, Mens Dier Ding (Man Animal Thing) was published and met with instant acclaim, going on to receive a VSB Poetry Prize nomination. ‘This book is a real happening in poetry… a masterpiece’, wrote the NRC Handelsblad. And in Trouw: ‘Schaffer shows what kind of animal things a man is capable of and how little human lives are sometimes worth. He does this with humour, with schwung, tenderly and thoughtfully; in poetry in which bloodlust can look like a ‘massive bar of dark chocolate’ . . . Man Animal Thing grabs you by the throat, not a common occurrence with poetry’.

Frank van Reenen

January 31st, 2018

Artist Frank van Reenen completed his fine art degree in 1993 and currently lives and works in Cape Town. His iconic works are well known for the way in which they explore the strange dichotomy of childhood – a period characterised by the tension between innocence and depravity, sweet whimsy and dark cruelty. There is a palpable sense of nostalgia for an imagined, ideal suburban world – and the perfect, shiny overallness of the work establishes a kind of baseline of blandness, a thin veil of visual numbness behind which a world of discomforting realities lurks.

Van Reenen’s work is influenced by his childhood toys, which as he says “are the first art that a child comes into contact with”, and deliberately engages with the particular “bubble reality” of the old South Africa. His themes nonetheless resonate with a wider international audience who respond to his sardonic and often dark humour.

Van Reenen has exhibited extensively both locally and internationally, has received a Loerie award and been nominated for a KykNET Fiesta award. In addition, he has twice been a finalist in the Absa L’Atelier competition and has executed a number of high-profile public commissions. His work is to be found in a number of private and public collections, both in South Africa and abroad, and has been featured in several international publications.

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Angus Taylor

January 31st, 2018

Angus Taylor is a force to be reckoned with. He relishes working with challenging materials on a scale that many sculptors find intimidating. His craftsmanship, bold and visionary approach and his original use of materials has resulted in landmark sculptures and many ambitious public and private commissions around the world.

Known for his powerful, often monumental, sculptural works, Taylor works with an extraordinary range of materials from his immediate environment – Belfast granite, red jasper and the orange soil found near Pretoria, where his studio is based. Even when he chooses traditional materials such as granite or bronze, he deploys innovative techniques; imprinting texts into the bronze surfaces or eschewing the ‘carvability’ of granite in favour of its block-like potential to construct works that allude to human form, without describing it.

Contrasted with these materials, are works made of packed grass, compacted earth, charcoal briquettes and stacked slate. The inventiveness with which he tackles materials positions Taylor as a post-modern artist making reference to traditional crafting techniques, but using them to create works that are unmistakably contemporary.

Two decades ago Taylor founded Dionysus Sculpture Works (DSW) where he honed his moulding and casting proficiencies to become a master craftsman. DSW’s skills in modelling, mould-making and casting has made it a much sought-after foundry and, in addition to Taylor’s own projects, the foundry casts for many other leading artists, including Norman Catherine, Sam Nhlengethwa and Deborah Bell. Through his foundry, he employs, trains and nurtures a staff of almost 40 and also finds time to develop the talent of younger artists.

Angus Taylor’s work can be found in many private and public collections in Africa, Europe, North America and Australia.

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GARDENS CENTRE, GARDENS
Wordsworth Books Gardens Centre
Blanc Canvas

SOUTHEREN SUBURBS
WOODSTOCK
ArtLab
Deckle Edge
The Bromwell
DF Contemporary
SA Print Gallery & SA Art Times
SMAC Gallery
Framed Master Gilders & Framers
Ruth Prowse School of Art Woodstock

OBSERVATORY
The Framing Place

ROSEBANK
Irma Stern Museum

RONDEBOSCH
SA Art Times
Van Schaik Books
The Italian Art Shop

NEWLANDS
Kelvin Grove
Vineyard Hotel & Spa
Barnard Gallery

CLAREMONT
Village Brush & Canvas
Exclusive Books

WYNBERG
In Fin Art

CONSTANTIA
Stephan Welz & Company
Exclusive Books
Red! The Gallery
Carmel Art Gallery

MUIZENBERG
Casa Labia

KALK BAY
Kalk Bay Modern
Artvark

HOUT BAY
Hout Bay Gallery

NORTHERN SUBURBS

BELVILLE
Art B Gallery

DURBANVILLE
Rust en Vrede

PAARL
Avondale
Hout Street Gallery

WORCESTER
Hugo Naude Art Centre