Red Eye 2010: Gallery Four at the Durban Art Gallery
Centre for Visual Art - University of KwaZulu Natal: Post graduate students
ARTISTS
Name: Kim Bagley
Title: Fondre
These vessels are about clay - simple stuff we squish between our toes and model things from as kids. Drip. Pour. Splash. Squish. Spin. Smear. Sprinkle. Innocent. Benign? They are also little clay sketches that meditate on the vessel, the earth, the hemisphere, here, now, the passage of time and our presence and manipulation of our planet. A celestial body politic? A prickly damaged vessel we keep drinking from?
Medium: Stoneware, earthenware and fired grass
Dimensions: variable
Name: Nicolette A. Collingwood
Title: The Beauty of the Body Politic
These figures are able to represent any woman at any stage in her life, from youth to beyond childbirth. I ask you here to not compare these figures, but rather to consider, and more importantly to celebrate, the beauty of the female form. A beauty which has not been constructed by patriarchal ideals of beauty, but rather a beauty that is able to speak for itself.
Medium: acetate, coloured paper
Dimensions: 70cm (h) x 55 (w) (24 images in total)
Name: Nicolas Crooks
Title: Paradox of Identity
Paradox of identity is a reflective work which engages in self-analysis attached to a range of philosophical ideas: posing pertinent questions: who am I as a person despite, and in addition to milieu in which I live, and how do I choose the path towards what I might become.
Medium: 64 vacuum formed plastic moulded heads
Dimensions: 2760h x 2060w
Artist: Wesley Flanagan
Title: Here We Stand
Here we Stand Deals with issues of homosexuality in contemporary life and relating it to that of a Victorian perspective, when such matters were considered taboo and simply not dealt with or seen. Circumstances surrounding views of homosexuality limit the amount of openness to which a couple can function in society. Often discretion is key, the limitations imposed on a homosexual couple in this work is compared to that of a bygone Victorian attitude of what is considered good, proper and publicly decent.
Name: Kim Forfar
Title: Invocation of the Muse
In making this work my aim was to explore ideas of the female form as Muse, as well as to examine a number of attitudes towards, and issues surrounding, the notion of artistic inspiration.
Medium: Mild Steel and Screen Print with Hand Colouring.
Dimensions: 810cm (h) x 1010cm (w) x 60cm (d)
Name: Natalie Fossey
Title: Marriage-a-la-Modem, Plate 1: Searching Nature
My series is structured as a unique inquiry and criticism of relationships and society and is intended to be read in sequence to create a versatile narrative. There are many themes present in the series. One of which is the ‘development’ of society through new media, and specifically the internet. Through which people or groups are now able to realize there ‘nature’, which has likewise been affected by these new form of interaction. Further more the theme of ‘nature’, ‘human nature’ is also considered with attitudes, beliefs and choices being to focus. Through over laying character and their internet behaviors I have tried to illustrate that personal identities are now much further reaching than ever before and exist on many levels.
Medium: Silk Screen
Dimensions: A1
Name: Leanne Frisinger
Title: War Poem/ Right in two
All of the photographs are of different family members portraying their various enrolments with the armed forces, dating from WWII to current conflict in Afghanistan. Being from such a strong military background I wish to emphasize the human element attached to modern war fair and how the decision to join the armed forces affects a family.While I am incredible proud of my family I personally do not agree with the concept of war. I therefore feel constantly divided by being supportive to my family while being vocal of my anti war stance.
Medium: Paper Porcelain with photo lithography.
Dimensions: 100cm x 60cm x 5cm
Name: Muziwandile Gigaba
Title: Iso Liwel' Umfula Ugcwele
My work composes of two works opposite each other, in a dialogue literally conveying the Zulu idiom that states that an eye sees beyond the full river. One image represents an eye with a reflection of the opposite work; the Durban city scrapes with a cross word puzzle floating over them.
Medium: Screen-print, calligraphy and lino cut.
Dimensions: 55.68cm x 39,67cm
Name: Phillipa Haskins
Title: Why Not Have Your Cake AND Eat It?
The contradiction between temptation, excess and restraint is the inspiration for this work. This piece explores the excess and temptation that a consumerist society imposes on us, as well as the constraints that society imposes on women in particular by pressuring them to be a certain size, shape, or weight in order to be considered attractive.
Medium: Mixed (Paper Mache, found objects, & oils)
Dimensions: 85 x 55 x 90cm
Name: Kristin Hua Yang
Title: Professional Painter at PMB No.1
The true painter
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm
Name: Rifka J. Kirsten
Title: restriction
Each substance used in each bra relates to a condition/s the sex female encounters. Using recyclable materials, I ask you to go outside of seeing the title and the work as separate: I ask that you connect/relate all the pieces: the form, the materials, the words; in essence, I ask you to multitask.
Medium: Wire, paper, glass, plastic, wood, fabric, Rosewood hangers, clear bra- straps
Dimensions: 54cm (h) x 45cm (w) x 11cm (d) (each)
Name: Sharon McClelland
Title: Dance the Body Politic, Girl!
I work with the texture within paper, but also how the paper can become malleable when experimenting with embossing, in many differing ways. I am a process artist, who allows the artwork to evolve itself and am constantly experimenting.
Medium: Textured, hand-made paper which is embossed onto women's feet
Dimensions: Variable - many pieces, approx 500X500 (unframed)
Name: Heather Pattenden
Title: Ties that Bind
This work was created as part of an exploration of gender and the blurring of the boundaries between masculinity and femininity. This piece is a contemporary take on the traditional art of Quilt making and looks at the relationships between traditional views of home and work life. The ties, symbolise the male and the corporate world, while the silk screened images of pots and pans on the ties represent the stereotypical female domain of the home. The short sentences silk screened onto the ties explore male dominated careers and questions are raised as to why a woman cannot be seen as God or the Pope? The cuff links sewn onto the ties further emphasis the idea of males working in a corporate world, while the buttons represent the home-the 'traditional' world of the female.
Medium: Mixed Media- thread,silkscreen,found objects: ties, buttons, cuff links
Dimensions: 200 x 200cm
Name: Mhairi Pattenden
Title: Medicine Men
This works represent my contemporary take on the Bushman shaman shapes found in rock shelters across the Drakensberg mountains. I have early remembrances of being fascinated by the strange images I encountered on these rock shelter walls when on family holidays. Often these figures exhibit therianthropic, part human, part animal, features and characteristics. What intrigues me most is the fact that many of these forms are paired with either animal or bird type heads. I am currently experimenting with a variety of therianthropic forms while concentrating on the Shaman aspect using alternative firing methods.
Medium: Raku fired ceramic vessels mounted with hand-sculpted stoneware skulls
Dimensions: Approx. 1 meter in height
Artist: Elizabeth Ramsay
Title: That Other Plague
I aimed to explore and convey the notion of otherness as well as the fragility and volatility of human relations. This piece makes use of both ceramic and printmaking techniques, combining lithography with embossing on paper clay.
Medium: Porcelain paper clay, lithography
Dimensions: 550 mm (height), 810 mm (width)
Artist: Wayne Reddiar
Title: Mining the Invisible
Initially inspired by J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash, this work isomorphic ally connects the unconscious mind with the exotic and autonomous nature of the ever growing database of visual material found on the internet. Here ‘found video’ was extracted from the internet and included, endoscopic medical footage and car crash tests footage, which shadows a physiological presence within these virtual worlds.
Medium: Video
Dimensions: Variable
Name: Tracey Turner
Title: Have you seen this person?
My work consists of a series of people's faces. I draw people from life and I present them in a linear form so that it is merely a suggestion of who they may be. The most noticeable and significant part of a person is their face. Each individual has different features and by looking at a person's face you can see where they may originate from. They may remind you of someone you know.
Medium: Pen and paper
Dimensions: 20 drawings, each A3
Name: Elizabeth Wang
Title: Envelopes
'I d not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands' somewhere I have never travelled'. E. E. Cummings
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: variable
Name: Sharon Weaving
Title: 'Filter'
‘Filter’ illustrates how concepts relating to information and material gain tend to be concentrated at a central body core. Movement away from this central core results in a filtration and dilution of these concepts and a structural fragility of the peripheries.
Medium: porcelain paper clay with yellow stain.
Dimensions: (h) 25cm X (w) 32cm X (l) 32cm
