23 November - 25 November 2010
Take 5 is the culmination of a three-month residency period at Greatmore Studios, September-November, by five international artists: Andy Williams (Canada), Pennicott+Fleming (UK), Victoria Malcolm (Wales) and Witty Nyide (South Africa). All have produced new work in response to their time at Greatmore that they will present in an exhibition opening on 23 November, 2010.
Pennicott + Fleming / London, England
Tom Fleming and Edwin Pennicott are a collaborative partnership who have been working together since meeting at Chelsea College of Art in 2002. The pair were subsequently accepted onto the Masters course at the Royal College of Art, London, where they graduated in 2006. In recent years they have exhibited internationally in numerous group shows as well as having two solo exhibitions in the UK. The artists are interested in issues surrounding kitsch, religious iconography, cultural identity and humour. They will present new drawings, photographs, sculpture and video work made during the residency.
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Andy Williams / Montreal,Canada
I've been involved with a lot of artists that I've met at galleries in the last 10 weeks, brainstorming on nuances which will improve my skills in years to come(From animation to docs to new philosophical findings) - My eyes are now wide open!
My subject matter is Jazz and Apartheid,which has been a lot of research into South African Culture. The coincidences from Western culture and African culture of oppression are empowering in terms of historical achievement and self worth as an African descendent. I have the utmost respect for each and every indivdual from the diaspora,overcoming adversities which has been psychologically genocidal.
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Witty Nyide / KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
From the perspective of a young woman born and schooled in a small village of Bulwer(3 hours from Durban) my work is a biographical reflection on interactions with, and perceptions of socially constructed environments and identities. I draw from individual and collective rites of passage, as well as the cultural content of the Nguni folklore as departure points to excavate and reconstruct memories and histories. In this context, the physicality and repetitiveness of media such as linocut printing, clay and origami become rituals of making sense of self as a site of constant re-definition.
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Victoria Malcolm / Wales, United Kingdom
I have trawled the Cape Town newspapers for images to plunder for their coded visual language: low and high end property ads, sales of popular consumer goods and raw photojournalism all provided starting points for translations into the language of paint. Bringing several art history references into play in one new image allows me to contrast the romantic landscape with the pop graphic, to mix visual metaphors and confuse the contexts of social classification.
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