Of prints and poetics
For me, print has always occupied a liminal or transient position:
print as an arrested moment, a space for contemplation,
a forced breath, an exhalation.
They stand as gentle provocations, willing the viewer to remember a time, a place or a feeling.
There is a wonderful beauty and calm both in drawing and in the printmaking process. I have always been interested in the philosophical implications of labour,
printmaking and the poetics of the everyday experiences.
Artwork:
Places of Quiet
Edition of 10
Screenprint on Somerset Satin 250gsm
24.5 x 30.5cm
The poetics of entropy
This series of drawings investigates the poetry of fragility, destruction and transience. By freezing an entropic moment of shattering glass, the series seeks to find beauty and calm in the act of drawing and the reclamation of brokenness.
Trace of a performance: a gesture in place
In this work drawing is used as a means to record the controlled performing of a pirouette - a complete turn of the body on one foot on demi-pointe. The pirouette as a gesture is also a metaphor of quasi-progress - the expression of time and work without traversing any ground - it performs both virtuosity and futility, in place and on time.
New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knowledge II Digital Print on Hahnemühle photo rag 308gsm 30 x 40cm
New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knowledge III Digital Print on Hahnemühle photo rag 308gsm 30 x 40cm
New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knowledge IV Digital Print on Hahnemühle photo rag 308gsm 30 x 40cm
Prayer Circle: Vested I-II
As a response to the painting The Black Christ (1962), this work sets up a similar martyr/persecutor relationship with the viewers being made to view the work from a radial distance, forming a prayer circle. Through robing myself with an apron and amice I am performing both the priest as well as the harlot, creates a contemplative space to grapple with the choice to edify or condemn. This artwork was created for Visual Arts Dept staff exhibition as part of the Woordfees festival in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2012.