18 - 25 March
Our first visiting artist group exhibition for 2010 took place on the 18th of March. The Title "To find your home visit ours" alluded to the eclectic mix of artists from Europe and Namibia who shared a home together and who collaborated on a group show after an eventful 3 months in Cape Town.
Eveline van de Griends (Holland), Kabelo Kim Modise (Namibia), Sevcan Cerkez (Cypress) and Rebecca and Katy Beinart (U.K.)
Eveline van de Griend
"GOLD, burden of paradise
"Eveline draws you into a world of poetry and conflicts, myth and reality, offering views on contemporary South Africa, obscured with a layer of gold....Turning the mirror to the sun to find a way to capture the gold, just to realize that beauty is like narcissus Like a modern history painting with a dreamlike character, Eveline van de Griends new works depict South Africa, a society in conflict between the past and the future. Eveline draws you into a world of poetry and conflicts. GOLD, burden of paradise, is the title for a series of controversial works that combine words and images in an visually blinding way. Her creations explore a symbiosis of culturally inherited symbolism with the reality of South Africa today, and her own Dutch history.
Eveline was funded by the Dutch government, Fonds BKVB This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Kabelo Kim Modise
"I am trying to archive the repetition of lines in the paintings which I apply at the end of my painting process subject. The main reasons behind this are to actually hide the image or subject matter and yet still have the opportunity to imprecisely see the image through the lines. One must learn to see the reality and yet at the same time wonder what's hidden behind the lines. We need to train our eyes to hunt for the reality. The lines are carefully painted and it takes quite a while to archive the similarity I want and if it happens that one of the line doesn't match the next line, its a draw back for me and I have to restart the line from sketch so as to accomplish the correspondence of the next line. The bottom line is for the viewer out there to look deeply in the painting and pass through the lines and get the message / subject matter out. Kim was funded by HIVOS and Arts Collaboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text74775 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //--> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Rebecca and Katy Beinart
"I am artist and educator based in Nottingham, UK. I graduated from the Nottingham Trent University Fine Art program in 2003. Between 2007-2008 I completed an MA in Arts and Ecology at Dartington College of Arts, Devon. I make art that pays attention. Art that listens and tells stories. Using objects and performance, I make interventions in public space that inspire curiosity and initiate conversations. I adapt myself and my equipment to quietly transform these encounters. My practice explores journey-making, and transformation: I believe that a subtle action can create unexpected ripples. I playfully ask serious questions, investigating lines of supply and control, and looking at the way in which certain stories come to dominate our understanding of a place.
Ideas from ecological science, philosophy, and activism inform the development of my practice. I approach my projects as research, maintaining a dialogue between theory and practice, and seeing each action as both artwork and experiment. Through attempting to bring ideas of ecology into my work as an artist, I have been working across disciplines and exploring new frameworks for my practice. In 2009 I was commissioned by Jennie Syson of the Hinterland project to create site-based work around the River Trent (Nottingham). The project I developed, Field Kitchen, is a handmade mobile kitchen on a bicycle trailer, designed to take small groups out on journeys to search for and cook wild foods. Over the summer, I took the Field Kitchen on multiple outings with different people to investigate our botanical locale. I repeat experiments in different locations to see how different places respond to the same set of questions.
Collaboration is a rich element in my practice and I work on a regular basis with other artists, activists, gardeners, scientists and writers. For our project Origination, I am developing collaborative work with my sister, artist Katy Beinart, looking at ideas of migration, family and identity. My ongoing freelance work as a facilitator fuels my belief in the power of working creatively with people to explore ideas, shift perceptions, and change our relationships with the spaces we inhabit. Katy and Rebecca were funded by the Arts Council England. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
