For Mona
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2020
Oil on plywood
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Dimensions: 77cm (H) x 61cm (W) x 0.5cm (D) / 30.3" (H) x 24" (W) x 0.2" (D)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings.
Artist Statement
A reworking of an old piece that relies on the texture created by enamel paint and lots of etching into the surface - inspired by works at the XVA gallery.
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Born: 1964
Hometown: Johannesburg
Based in: South Africa
Painting and drawing is an integral part of my life, and has been since a very early age. At the moment I am interested in formal elements of painting and drawing inspired by the world around me and the many countries I visit, and in finding meaning where others do not - in the fall of light on a sandy building in Riyadh, the chaos of the shacks of Kampala, the crowded taxi parks of Johannesburg. My art is a search for perfection that is not often found in life. I am fortunate enough to travel widely in the Middle East and Africa, but I have not found my Tahiti - a landscape populated with primary colours, instead I find landscape covered in sandy construction sites, tin roofed shacks, humanity sweating as trucks our loaded with voluminous bundles. But within these spaces there is balance and form and structure - all elements that are abstracted in my paintings.
Qualifications: MFA Wits University 2018
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