Aged 89, East London ceramicist Bea Jaffray has no intention of taking a break from producing intricate, jewel-like tiled wall hangings that form part of art collections all over the world. Jaffray, who works from an enclosed balcony in Baysville, has participated in 110 exhibitions, most recently in France at a gallery called La Galerie Ecossaise in the village of Noyers-sur-Serein.
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Paul Roos Gymnasium, IS Art Gallery and Absa launched the Paul Roos Art Garden on Friday 21 October. The PRG Art Garden and Coffee Shop is a pop-up art exhibition that showcases sculptures by renowned local artists.
February, the month of love, is a good time to discover the joy travel experiences can deliver over material gifts. Travel is a fantastic way to bond with a loved one while also seeing something of your own country.
The South Africa is Travel Ready (SAITR) collective of influential agencies in the tourism and hospitality space is promoting the idea of
#ExperiencesNotThings. It is supporting the industry’s efforts to reopen to international visitors, create awareness of the role tourism plays and inspire tourists to return because South Africa is “travel ready”.
If the past year has taught us anything, it’s to focus on the things that really count. Getting out there and doing things with those we love is a huge part of that.
The art of making sense of a tough 2020: salvaging hope from the wreckage Pictures Worth a Thousand Words has works by artists who have collaborated with the David Krut gallery this year 14 December 2020 - 18:46 By Chris Thurman
In last week’s column, I expressed a less-than-sanguine view about the apes known as Homo sapiens. I’d visited Cruise at Krut 2020, in which Wilma Cruise’s maudlin chess-playing baboons and gnomic pigs become characters in a cautionary tale, warning the viewer not to think too highly of the human animal. Paradoxically, art and abstract thought, the foundations of any exceptionalist claims made on behalf of our species, are also the means by which we can criticise such claims.