OK, so what do you do once you have graduated from a university? You would think that having completed 3 to 4 years of studying at a tertiary institution, and suitably armed with a degree (in my case a honours level degree), you would head out into society and land that career you have always dreamed [...]
The Belgian surrealist painter, René Magritte, he of the infamous “pipe” painting: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", "This is not a pipe", in equally obtuse fashion, apparently said to someone asking him to explain what he meant by one of his works, “if could do that I wouldn’t need to paint them”. Now Magritte [...]
I have two exhibitions opening this week (my 4th and fifth of the year!!!): 1) Prick! Subverting the Stitch at the artSPACE durban Gallery from 29 June - 18 July 2015. This is a small solo consisting of 8 works. Below: A Bunny's Tale (2015) swany The press release [...]
As my Anima-Animus exhibition draws to a close I am preparing frantically for my next one (I told you this year was a hectic one!). It will be a small solo (8 works) called: Prick! Subverting the Stitch. It will be a mixture of old and new works all involving embroidery and stitching. And as [...]
So if you have been keeping up you will be aware that last week I had the opening of my new (joint) exhibition: Anima/Animus. What you will not be aware of is all the other hecticness I have had going on simultaneously. It has been nine days of extreme! Now I don’t want to say [...]
So a wintery wind came rattling through last night, bringing with it a restless sleep filled with troubled dreams. I did not sleep well with the wind huffing and puffing outside the walls of my apartment and tugging at the windows. Or perhaps its just that I am nervous and stressed about my upcoming exhibition, my [...]