New face of my blog

No longer an experimental site where I throw around ideas for my work. I have just begun teaching art at a school in Durban. So along with my own work I will be posting some of the interesting work that my students are busy with.

The final countdown

Wow, this year has really blown by in a whirl of creativity. My exhibition is due to be hung in a weeks time. That is a scary thought although I am ready for it and am anticipating seeing all my years of hard work hanging on the gallery walls. This is the work Fragmented (2009) which I have been dragging my heels with, but it is finally done.

Crazy week ~

This is a very amateur little creation of the small squares evolving into what I had hoped to be a recognisable image. However, the image is not at all clear and so I am having to rethink the format.

Back in Time

As an artist working on my current exhibition, my M.Tech exhibition I get so wrapped up in my current work I tend to forget where I have come from in my exploration of the female body as subject matter. I recently re-discovered my B. Tech (2006 )work whilst researching for a chapter in my dissertation. It was so wonderful to re-engage myself with the work I did then as it gave me a fresh perspective on my current work. So I though I would post a few images from that exhibition.

Untitled Four (Perfume Ad) (2006)
Mixed Media on canvas (200 x 150cm)

Untitled Six (Everyday Placemats) (2006)

2 of 7 (20 x 30 cm)

Untitled Two (Summertime) (2006)

Mixed Media on canvas

140 x 60 cm

Untitled Three (Reclining Figure) (2006)
Mixed Media on canvas

30 x 120cm, 90 x 120cm

I have only just recently bought myself a copy of John Berger's Ways of Seeing (1972). What an interesting quick read! I thoroughly enjoyed his perspective on the theory of the male gaze and very pertinent to my dissertation.

Down to the wire

I had a private freak out this afternoon when I realised how little time I have left until my exhibition. It is under two months and is very rapidly approaching. I was completely unproductive last week being so sick with tonsilitis but hopefully I can make up for it this week. I have a lot that still needs to be completed and for the most part it is my thesis which is taking forever now! I really need to get it done asap, so that it is out of my hair three weeks before my exhibition. So, work work work!!!

New Piece

I have been working on a large piece which contains of hundreds of small blocks, see below as the image starts to form.



Its still looking very incomplete but its getting there!