MINE: KZNSA Professional Practice Course

MINE presents bodies of work in a sweeping variety of media, with vibrant oils and acrylics telling important stories of everyday life, moody graphite adding grainy depth drawn from life, funky animation that saunters in and out of absurd situations, outrageously delicious lightboxes, the movement of wind-swept landscapes captured in collaged hard copy, and a strange, warped and totally new form of photography that simulates the folding twists of our dynamic environment.

Elizabeth Sparg, Renee Leslie, Simmi Dullay, Lesley Magwod-Fraser, Angie Arbuthnot, Bheki Kambuhle, Mbekeni Mbili, Cally Lotz and Lee Scott Hempson are the participants in the second KZNSA Professional Practice Course. Over the past three months, this group has engaged in an interactive process of theory and practice in exploring the essential requirements of how to make it big in the art world.

The title of their exhibition – MINE – alludes to one of the core requirements of success in this highly competitive field: the development of a visual language that is unique, bold, and exciting; that says something new and says it in a manner that has never been seen before. The provocative manipulation of matter and materials defies the traditional, adds depth to the contemporary, and re-defines the artists within the context of their highly specific lives.

EXHIBITION OPENS ON TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2009 AT 6PM
ARTISTS’ WALKABOUT ON SATURDAY, 21 NOVEMBER AT 10AM
ARTISTS’ RESEARCH SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS ON THURSDAY, 26 NOVEMBER AT 6PM
EXHIBITION CLOSES ON SUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2009 AT NOON

KZNSA GALLERY, 166 BULWER ROAD, GLENWOOD, DURBAN 4001
TEL: + 27 (0)31 277 1705

WEB: WWW.KZNSAGALLERY.CO.ZA

VANSA

The Visual Arts Network of South Africa is an umbrella organisation serving the interests of visual arts practitioners. Its membership consists of individual visual arts practitioners, curators and administrators, as well as organisations, companies, institutions and service providers that participate in or serve the visual arts sector. VANSA does not seek to replace or duplicate the functions of existing organisations and structures in the sector – it exists to promote greater unity and internal cooperation and communication within the visual arts.

VANSA was formed by leading figures in the visual arts sector from across South Africa in 2003 in response to the absence of a national structure that could represent the interests of the sector and systematically and constructively address the historical imbalances (in terms of access and opportunity) that continue to characterise the sector.

To contact VANSA KwaZulu Natal, email Yvette Dunn : vansakzn@gmail.com

New Bean Bag Show : King of Arts

New show at Bean Bag Bohemia
" King of 'arts"
The show opens on Sat 24th October at 7pm and runs till the 20th of November.
28 of Durban's hottest designers have each created 2 cards which have been made up into a limited edition pack of playing cards.
An edition of prints will also be available for sale.