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Greatmore Bids Farewell to its 5 Visiting Artists. Sadly our visiting artist programme had to come to an end and Greatmore's visitors began their departure at the end of July having spent 3 months at the studios. Lea Bult flew back to the States, Mufu Onifade to Nigeria, Sheena Rose made her way back to Barbados via London, Bamanye Lethungxale headed back to Port Elizabeth and Anne Sassoon to Joburg before leaving for Israel. |
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Recent Exhibitions Greatmore has had a busy and exciting exhibition schedule during June and July. On the 26th June 2010, as part of the Great Walk and More Festival, €œThe Laboratory of Recycled Revolutions€ a curated exhibition by Isa Suarez opened in the Greatmore Gallery Space. A "Winter" exhibition opened on the 3rd July 2010 in partnership with the Irma Stern Museum. The exhibition ran throughout the month and represented South African artists who have been at Greatmore. Our most recent exhibition opened on the 22nd July 2010 €“ Angaza, Across the Continent.....an exhibition of recent works by Greatmore€™s visiting artists.
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The Great Walk and More
The Great Walk and More was a 'festival' of site specific art worksby local and international artists.The works wereinstalled in and around the neighbourhood of Greatmore Street. The festival was generously sponsored by the National Lottery Distribution Trust fund. The purpose was to bring contemporary art into the community€™s space and bring new visitors to the area of Woodstock. Performers lead visitors from Lower Main Road up Greatmore Street. Members of the community transformed their porches and shop fronts into individual galleries and exhibiting spaces, and on the opening evening they all come out of their houses to €˜light€™ the way. Visitors experienced live art, art installations, sound installations and street performances as they walked the streets. A stage was set up in the grounds of the Learning Centre at number 66 Greatmore Street where audiences enjoyed different music and video projections. On both Friday 25th June from dusk and all day Saturday 26th, visitors walked around the designated area to experience an entirely different and unusual art Exhibition while having the chance to explore this unique and fascinating community.
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Thupelo 2010 - Interventions
Thupelo is an international workshop held every year and invites up to 25 local and international artists to participate. This year, Greatmore Studios received generous funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust fund and hosted the workshop at the studios in Greatmore Street, Woodstock. Thupelo has held 30 workshops to date and varies the location each year. 2010 was a special year with the intervention of the football world cup but this in no way distracted the artists who worked intensely for two weeks on their own work as well as making works specifically for the neighbourhood. The results culminatined in the Great Walk and More Festival and were enjoyed by over 1000 spectators.
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New News
Greatmore welcomes Judy Williams our new Intern sponsored by Africalia/Vansa. Judy was thrown in at the deep end when she joined our team during a Thupelo workshop and Great Walk and More festival. She will be working with us for the next six months during which time we hope to enrich her professional career with a host of new skills and a deeper understanding of arts administration.
New Mentoring Month. This month Greatmore will facilitate a Lomography Mentoring Month, kindly sponsored by the Arts and Culture Trust. Greatmore has selected 6 young and emerging artist from a variety of backgrounds to participate for a 2 week period. Exposure Gallery is supplying the cameras and film and it is hope that Orms will help to develop the results. Lomography is analogue photography using the quirky Holga cameras. Each camera has a different feature so the participants can be exposed to experimentation and new experiences. The results of the workshop will be on display from the 27th August. For an invite to the exhibition, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Greatmore anxiously awaits the arrival of their new visiting artists coming from the UK, Wales, The Netherlands and South Africa. Look out for their intros in our next newsletter.
Welcome Back Mishkaah!!
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Opportunities
Studio Space will be coming available at the end of the year. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for an application form.
Are you interested in a print making workshop? Greatmore would like to hold a printmaking workshop for those interested. The workshop will be tailor made to your needs so let us know your requirements. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
