April Mentoring Month

GREATMORE STUDIOS / MENTORING

Since April 2007 the artists at Greatmore Studios have committed themselves to grooming a new generation of artists, through four-week long mentorship workshops. It is hoped that these workshops will serve as important forums for experimentation, development, and critique. For any given workshop, six to eight young, local and international artists are invited from across the continent to interact with each other, exchange ideas while tapping the expertise of seasoned artists. During the workshop the emerging are encouraged to develop their artistic practice by making meaningful work.
While many of these young artists are drawn from local and international tertiary art institutions; some have never had any formal art training in their lives. The workshop marks the first time some of the younger artists would have showcased their work to a broader community. Apart from having a safe empathetic space in which to contain their art practice, the young artists have access to a computer laboratory with free internet access, computer training, a library of recent journals and books. All participating artists are encouraged to take advantage of an extensive international network of artists affiliated with the studios.		DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM: DOWNLOAD PDF (54 KB) DOWNLOAD Word doc (37 KB)

APRIL 2008:

NU EXPECTATIONS
24 April 2008. opening 17h00

An exhibition of recent work by emerging artists taking up a four week residency at Greatmore Studios.

Participating Artists:
Nkululeko Khumalo, Rampedi Molefe, Lucian de Nobrega, Aaron Poole, Lisa Scalabrino.

FEEDBACK FROM MENTORING ARTISTS

LUCIAN DE NOBREGA I Cape Town
Got interested in artmaking …when I left school … that is when I started experimenting with photography and studying part time at Ruth Prowse School of Art.

Works with … paper layering it and manipulating painting techniques to give it texture. My work is a playful interplay of abstract and mixed media, providing unlimited opportunities for exploration. I draw my inspiration from my everyday interactions with objects and their movement.

Has exhibited recent work at …Cape Town Convention Centre, the Association for Visual Arts, and the 2008 Design Indaba
Currently…occupies a studio at the Good Hope Studio at the Castle.

Is inspired by Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi and Nkoali Nawa. I like the use of light in Nawa’s work-it is unique because its deals with the emotions of people working in the mines.

Arrives at Greatmore to… gain further exposure as a young artist

NKULELUKO KHUMALO I Gauteng
Got interested in art making …in primary school but I only started seriously pursuing art in high school. I initially studied a business degree but had never given up my dream to study art. Following the completion of my first degree, I went on to obtain my BFA degree.

Works with … every day observations of people mostly living in informal settlements. In the past I worked a lot with Alexandra Township – I now make very frequent references to newspaper clippings. I enjoy printmaking, etching and developing digital prints.

Has exhibited recent work at … Cape Town Convention Centre, the Development Bank of South Africa,Gallery 88 in Sasolburg

Currently… doing my masters in fine arts at Vaal University where I also serve as a tutor

Greatmore is exposing her to… opportunities to travel and do local and international art residencies.

AARON SIMON POOLE I Cape Flats, Cape Town
Got interested in artmaking… during apartheid while at school. My engagement in national politics and my commitments to my family brought a hiatus in my art career. It has only been in recent years, when I met up with some artists from Khayelitsha that I was inspired to return to the arts. Now that my children have grown up I am strongly pursuing my art again

Works with … acrylics making abstracts compositions that explore form and shape.

Rampedi Molefe I Cape Town Got interested in artmaking … at a tender age and developed it through to high school, where I received several accolades. I obtained a bachelor degree in architecture at the University of Cape Town and am preparing to do my masters in the near future. My hope is to blur the boundaries between architecture and art.

Works with …life-sized portraits, exploring people’s varied emotions through the use of colour and tone.

LISA SCALABRINO I Cape Town
“My art is for me; I like creating things that make me happy; things that are an extension of my personality-joyful, colourful, chaotic, excessive, strange, quirky and in general perversely optimistic. I am deeply fascinated with popular culture, mass consumerism and materialistic objects. Ironically my obsessive collecting ultimately overwhelms me. I see parallels with the world today- we are bombarded and enthralled by a wealth and influx of mass imagery. My art is a coping mechanism to the created chaos. As I archive, categorise and organise- a rhythm and beautiful pattern begins to emerge…”
Got interested in artmaking … during my primary and secondary level of education. I took up a few courses at Ruth Prowse School of Art and eventually obtained my BFA at Stellenbosch University in 2007.

Works in…installation, conceptual art, painting and collecting odd bits and bobs

Currently… started painting and collecting objects and doing research on other artists


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