HOPE STREET, RICHMOND, NORTHERN CAPE, 7090, SOUTH AFRICA, 2013 (2016)
Type of book work: Editioned / printed work & Digital work
Dimensions: 300 x 120 x 40
Media: Oblong and Z-fold leparello with photographic prints
Presented as a slide show, the images from the book are panned across the screen
Single channel HD projection, no audio
Duration 33 minutes
Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/176805211
Password: Hope Street
Artist's / designer's statements
As an artist keen to explore diverse and alternative avenues, though I
specialise in photography and digital media, I prefer not be bound by a
specific genre. Rather, I see myself in broader more flexible terms, focusing
on finding ways to best express or investigate ideas, experiences and
concepts, whether personal, political or universal.
Working in response to the immediate environment and culture, my usual
process involves collecting found-images from the real world creating
visual metaphors that trigger shifts in perception. In this way the random,
ephemeral and mundane are deconstructed and transmuted. Rather than
arrive with a preconceived idea, I assimilate first-hand perceptions, and
find inspiration through networking and interaction with a particular
environment. Moreover, to a certain extent, my process undermines artistic
autonomy and ownership. In this regard I enjoy entering into collaborations
where the boundaries between individuals blur and expand into less
predictable, more interesting artistic territories. Projects thus develop a life
of their own.
In this way, I combine perennial themes and interests, with my own
and others' spontaneous perspectives and experiences. Essentially I am
interested in moments, forgotten, remembered or unnoticed, in images
that are able to trigger the collective consciousness. My work is the telling
of known and unknown stories, personal and public, visual narratives that
speak about metamorphosis, rebirth and the ephemeral, infinite nature of
life.
OBLIQUE
Type of book work: Editioned / printed work & Digital work
Dimensions: 290 x 230
Artist's / designer's statements
Oblique has been adapted into a HD film installation with changing slides
of all the images included in the book and narrated by the actor Marcel van
Heerden.
Artist / Academic / Curator
Education
1995 Certificate in Curatorship, AICA (Africus Institute for Contemporary Art Johannesburg Biennale), Johannesburg, South Africa
1993 National Diploma Fine Arts, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Selected Awards / Grants / Residencies
2007 Africa Center Spier Contemporary Award, Cape Town, South Africa
2004 Artist-in-Residence, ArtOmi International Artist Residency. Ghent, New York
2003 Brett Kebble Award for Photography, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 First National Bank VITA Awards Nominee, Johannesburg, South Africa;
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions / Projects
2016 Oblique: The So-called Fruits of Lives, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2014 Oblique, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, USA
2012 Oblique, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery
2005 End of the World, curated by Kwezi Gule, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
2004 End of the World, curated by Laurie Farrell, Museum for African Art, New York, USA
Selected Collections
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/ Berlin, Germany
Jack Ginsberg Book Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
SAFFCA Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa;
Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America
Sindika Dokolo African collection of contemporary art, Luanda, Angola