The Last Colour to Fade
2019
Solo Exhibition
WITW / KRONE Gallery, SA
2019
Solo Exhibition
WITW / KRONE Gallery, SA
How you are fallen from Heaven, O
Day Star, Sun of Dawn!
2018-2019
Collected and sewn Methode Cap Classique foils
Approx. 200 x 370 cm
2018-2019
Collected and sewn Methode Cap Classique foils
Approx. 200 x 370 cm
Sinner I
2018-2019
Collected and sewn Methode Cap Classique foils
Approx. 160 x 120 cm
2018-2019
Collected and sewn Methode Cap Classique foils
Approx. 160 x 120 cm
Sinner II
2018-2019
Collected and sewn Methode Cap Classique foils
Approx. 160 x 120 cm
2018-2019
Collected and sewn Methode Cap Classique foils
Approx. 160 x 120 cm
Untitled II (The Last Colour to Fade)
2018-2019
Collected, recycled and sewn tarlatan cloth (printing rags)
Dimensions Variable
2018-2019
Collected, recycled and sewn tarlatan cloth (printing rags)
Dimensions Variable
Untitled I (The Last Colour to Fade)
2018-2019
Collected, recycled and sewn tarlatan cloth (printing rags)
Dimensions Variable
2018-2019
Collected, recycled and sewn tarlatan cloth (printing rags)
Dimensions Variable
Untitled III (The Last Colour to Fade)
2018-2019
Collected, recycled and knitted plastic bottles
Dimensions Variable
2018-2019
Collected, recycled and knitted plastic bottles
Dimensions Variable
Untitled
2019
Tissue paper and porcelain.
Dimensions Variable
2019
Tissue paper and porcelain.
Dimensions Variable
The Last Colour to Fade
2019
Solo Exhibition
WITW / KRONE Gallery, SA
2019
Solo Exhibition
WITW / KRONE Gallery, SA
The Last Colour to Fade was produced over two years, 2018 to 2019, as part of my Masters in Fine Art degree (Michaelis School of Fine Art). The exhibition is accompanied by a document. Read the abstract below.
Abstract
Drawing on personal recollections and collective history, The Last Colour to Fade offers a meditation on the sea as both a physical and psychological landscape. Memories of my childhood spent on Robben Island are interwoven with historical facts, with narratives borrowed from literature and film, and images from art and life. Shifting between first person and third, between my own reflections and those of others, I have found in the lives and works of Adriaan Van Zyl, Derek Jarman, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf and others a shared affinity for water. The sea – changeable, inconstant – reveals itself to be evocative of not only promise and peril, but of sensuality, desire and eroticism. It offers as imperfect parallel the image of the swimming pool and its attendant changing room, evoking a history of the queer body in art and writing. The twelve discrete artworks collected under the title The Last Colour to Fade, are abstracted interpretations of these themes, where colour and materiality are primary. The works share a persistent seriality, with the recurring image of a pool, the motif of tiles, and repetition of form. Most tends towards fragility, towards a suggested impermanence, made from tissue paper, porcelain, or stained tarlatan cloth. The accompanying text is one of fragments and vignettes, which suggest rather than state my thematic concerns, pairing my own voice with those of others in quoted passages and poems. Both my exhibition and writing gesture to the liminal space between what is said and what is left unspoken.
Abstract
Drawing on personal recollections and collective history, The Last Colour to Fade offers a meditation on the sea as both a physical and psychological landscape. Memories of my childhood spent on Robben Island are interwoven with historical facts, with narratives borrowed from literature and film, and images from art and life. Shifting between first person and third, between my own reflections and those of others, I have found in the lives and works of Adriaan Van Zyl, Derek Jarman, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf and others a shared affinity for water. The sea – changeable, inconstant – reveals itself to be evocative of not only promise and peril, but of sensuality, desire and eroticism. It offers as imperfect parallel the image of the swimming pool and its attendant changing room, evoking a history of the queer body in art and writing. The twelve discrete artworks collected under the title The Last Colour to Fade, are abstracted interpretations of these themes, where colour and materiality are primary. The works share a persistent seriality, with the recurring image of a pool, the motif of tiles, and repetition of form. Most tends towards fragility, towards a suggested impermanence, made from tissue paper, porcelain, or stained tarlatan cloth. The accompanying text is one of fragments and vignettes, which suggest rather than state my thematic concerns, pairing my own voice with those of others in quoted passages and poems. Both my exhibition and writing gesture to the liminal space between what is said and what is left unspoken.
Edited by Lucienne Bestall