Chaotic Pleasure: Prophetic paintings wield blunt truths
It’s always a little eerie when works of art do that thing they so often do. You know, that prophetic thing where they age and endure and still manage to … Read More
Category: Visual Arts
Swell: Empire on the rocks
There is only blue sky and ocean, interrupted by the brown rocks and pale sand of the Eastern Cape. Waves swell and break, white sea foam churns. Then an inflatable … Read More
Inking an end to 2020
Trans-disciplinary artist Sue Pam-Grant, 58, has a new tattoo. It states: “All of The Gone 31.12.2020”. She says: “It is my first tattoo. I was inked on the last day … Read More
Two churches and a cricket field
‘Welcome to Frontier Country’ says a sign on the side of the road as you navigate the potholed route to Makhanda. ‘Frontier Country’, like the formerly-named Grahamstown and its colossal … Read More
Neurotic notes on Human Study #1
I leave the waiting room and enter the studio of Brussels-based artist Patrick Tresset, halfway across the world. There are no introductions and he wastes no time getting started – … Read More