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I think I took the challenge up because of the amount of pressure we would work under. First of all no collaborations. I have wanted to collaborate with Tonnee Mugo or Kevin Odour on something for a while. I thought this would be it. It wasn’t. But… It need to be mobile/ transportable. It needed ...
A triptych tale of the shapes taken by an individual to get themselves out of a situation. Incorporates verses from a poem written by the artist, titled “Hissy Fit” On this painting, the verses used are: “She is the snake she is in the same skin she tries to shed. She is hollow – empty ...
I think I took the challenge up because of the amount of pressure we would work under. First of all no collaborations. I have wanted to collaborate with Tonnee Mugo or Kevin Odour on something for a while. I thought this would be it. It wasn’t. But… It need to be mobile/ transportable. It needed ...
“Lately,” said my paintbrush as it swept my soul across the body of paint and spread me onto the canvas. Things have changed in regards to how my paintbrush wants to paint. Influences too have moved. From Jackson Pollock and (sometimes) Keith Haring. New voices are Gustav Klimt and Jean Paul Gautier.
“Lately,” said my paintbrush as it swept my soul across the body of paint and spread me onto the canvas. Things have changed in regards to how my paintbrush wants to paint. Influences too have moved. From Jackson Pollock and (sometimes) Keith Haring. New voices are Gustav Klimt and Jean Paul Gautier. The Kiss and ...
#Harambee63 will be showing at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits Uni.) from the 9th to the 12 of April 2014. The main focus for he installation will be about how South Africa was key to the movement for freedom for Black and Coloured people across the continent and globally. Interestingly, the struggle for the very ...
Since the days of the miniskirt, women’s bodies have played a wonderful game of chess with the body as political. This piece represents how one woman’s projection in the mind of a man is not another woman’s projection in the same mind. The currency of the female form can be confusing. This painting is ...
“Net” shows the interconnectedness of man and nature. The spiderweb is made using a key component – fishing line – in the livelihoods of many who live along the Nile; fishermen. The web has been constructed exactly how a spider would do it with the frame and “Y” pattern. In the way that a spiderweb ...
“Net” shows the interconnectedness of man and nature. The spiderweb is made using a key component – fishing line – in the livelihoods of many who live along the Nile; fishermen. The web has been constructed exactly how a spider would do it with the frame and “Y” pattern. In the way that a spiderweb ...
Fela Kuti talks about a woman who thinks she is liberated but is actually not. A critique on feminism. An African woman dances in this painting, clapped for by others – oblivious to her “mental incarceration.” A painting inspired by the actions of an artist – observations made. #subtweet Acrylic on ...