The Alchemy of an Artist's Studio

THE ALCHEMY OF AN ARTIST’S STUDIO: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE UNUSUAL MATERIALS OF SUGAR AND WOOL

Dr Julie Taylor, founder and director of Guns & Rain

Saturday 30 January  1.00–3.00 pm  COURSE FEES R150; Staff and students R100

Maximum number of participants 15

VENUE 105 Victoria Road, Woodstock. Entrance, corner Victoria and Cavendish Streets Off-street parking available.

What goes on behind the scenes in an artist’s studio? How do they make what they make? How does an artist work with, and transform, their ideas and raw materials into art? During this studio visit, participants will have the opportunity to learn from two talented young contemporary artists, Hannah Macfarlane and Zenaéca Singh, and encounter their unusual materials.

Using wool from the Karoo and working at the intersection of fine art and craft, Hannah Macfarlane uses the embodied process of wet felting to engage with ideas about catharsis, labour and nature. Her soft, fleshy sculptures explore a range of visual and tactile metaphors for intimacy and vulnerability.

Zenaéca Singh’s artistic practice is grounded in the colonial history of sugar production in South Africa, the keystone of which was indentured Indian labour. Singh uses as her medium the very output of that labour – sugar. Drawing on archival materials, Zenaéca creates paintings and sculptures from molasses and sugar in different states of solidity and fluidity.

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