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Now representing: Patrick Bongoy

Currently showing: Spring Awakening Group Show

13.04.2022 - 15.06.2022

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Now representing: Navel Seakamela

May 24

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Southern Guild will host an artist walkabout of 'Spring Awakening' on Saturday, 4June at 11am. This is an opportunity to hear from a diverse group of artists before the show closes on 15 June, as they address their response to the exhibition's curatorial premise of transformation, rebirth, loss, decay and healing. Curator @_lindseyraymond will lead an informal discussion with @adam_birch_sculpts @jacobs_christine_ @chumamaweni @githancoopoo @jeanne.hoffman @justine.mahoney @fanimadoda @martinejackson_art @rodneyband and @shakilsolanki_studio.#SouthernGuild #SpringAwakening #AdamBirch #ChumaMaweni #ChristineJacobs #GithanCoopoo #JeanneHoffman #MadodaFani #MartineJackson #JustineMahoney #RodneyBand #ShakilSolanki #artist #exhibition #artexhibition #designexhibition #artistwalkabout #curation #curated #gallery #collectibledesign #functionalart #fineart #ceramics #sculpture #painting

May 23

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Flashback to @heferporky's first solo show with us in 2015, 'Monstera Deliciosa, Volume I', and this hungry hippopotamus titled 'Grace Amphibious'.Photo by @nicokrijno#SouthernGuild #PorkyHefer #design #hangingseat #hangingchair #functionalart #functionalsculpture #leather #handstitched #craft #collaboration #designcollaboration #humour #play #hippo #hippopotamus #animal #nature #natureinspired #playful #experience #experiential

May 20

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Joburg-based artist Navel Seakamela @naveldnav was our first artist-in-residence at the GUILD Residency, where he prepared a body of work for his upcoming solo opening 22 June.Born in 1991 in Soshanguve, Tshwane, Seakamela grew up in Tembisa township just outside Johannesburg. A figurative artist, he works mainly in acrylic paint, charcoal and pastel. Although his large-scale works depict not so much the individual person as a sense of shared identity, the close framing of his subjects and emotive expression lend his portraits an intimacy and sense of vulnerability.Photography @brettrubin_studio#SouthernGuild #NavelSeakamela #artist #painter #painting #artwork #upcoming #exhibition #soloexhibition #art #portrait #artistportrait #figurativeart #figurative #figurativepainting #figurativeartist #intuitive #expressive #artistinresidence #artstudio #studioportrait #brettrubin #workinprogress #wip #process

May 19

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Two paintings in one; or perhaps multiple paintings within each? This work is titled 'Diagram of Moves / A Stage' by @jeanne.hoffman. The Cape-Town based artist sees paintings as places in which “language engages with the ineffable”. Hoffman often conflates interior and exterior scenes in her paintings, and created this (and another work) with the location of 'Spring Awakening' in mind, incorporating references to the gallery’s classical archways into her compositions.Hoffman says: “The ‘architecture’ of the space (the painting) frames a symbolic constellation that is a space of continuous transformation: It is where the ‘I’ – the person engaged, whether artist or viewer – moves between movement and stasis, between separation and union, between what is real and what is possible, between the visible and the sayable. This contract between what is painted and what is not, between materiality and absence, brings to life a pictorial space that leaves room for the imagination. The artwork does not only testify to difference, but opens it into a region, an imaginary space, where paradoxes can, and do, co-exist; it is a productive space, a site for moments of insight. The paintings are, therefore, intended as devices for contemplation – what Roland Barthes describes as a ‘stage’ upon which thoughts roam freely, a ‘dream window’ that permits both artist and viewer to enter into a poetic landscape to engage with what words cannot say, being transformed by the gestures at play.”Jeanne Hoffman
'Diagram of Moves / A Stage', 2022
Acrylic on canvas
170 x 260 cm#SouthernGuild #JeanneHoffman #SpringAwakening #painting #acrylicpainting #figurativepainting #abstractpainting #figurativeart #abstractart #painter #paint #art #fineart #frame #framed #fragments #paintingoftheday #scenes #interiorscenes #exteriorscenes #gallery #artgallery #exhibition #artexhibition

May 19

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Looking through the undulating folds of 'Felt(veld)scape', an immersive piece of functional art by @jacobs_christine_, towards @chumamaweni's 'Isibane' candle holders flanking 'Ukhanyo I', a photographic work by @sisonkepapu.'Spring Awakening' is o view until 17 June.#SouthernGuild #SpringAwakening #groupexhibition #exhibition #artwork #artgallery #gallery #artdesign #collectibledesign #christinejacobs #chumamaweni #sisonkepapu #ceramics #felt #functionalart #galleryinterior #photographicart #interior #stillness #meditative #consciousness #conscious #energy #healing #curation #curated #fineart #igqirha #spiritual

May 17

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The photographic imagery printed onto the 'But-a-Body' dress by @lezanneviviers was inspired by the Japanese avant-garde dance form of Butoh, in which performers make slow and arrhythmic contortions to express raw emotion. This collection of wearable artworks began as a photographic series that Viviers made using her naked body, anonymous but vulnerable, arranged in awkward poses as a way of challenging herself to feel comfortable in her own skin. She created surrealist montages, laying various images of her body over one another and juxtaposing her flesh with animal bones. The effect is disturbing, even grotesque – a spirit that Viviers consciously evokes in her images.The 'But-a-Body' dress and 'Neither/Nor' photographic work are currently on show in 'Spring Awakening'. They delve into the idea of transformation and metamorphosis – the “in-between” where “one thing is because of another – forever ebbing, forever flowing, contracting yet expanding,” says Viviers, founder of @viviers.studio. “Amongst our combined energies lies the possibilities of change.”#SouthernGuild #LezanneViviers #ViviersStudio #SpringAwakening #wearableart #consciousfashion #sustainablefashion #fashionart #ecofashion #salvaged #leather #deadstockfabric #deadstockleather #handcrafted #craft #craftsmanship #handmade #africanfashion #design #collectibledesign #photographicart #printedleather #butoh #conceptualfashion #conceptualfashiondesign #bodypositive #surrealist #montage #surrealism

May 16

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'My First Urn' by @githancoopoo dispenses with funerary solemnity, pulsating with psychedelic colour and teasing the viewer with its ironic slogan. The artwork invites a conversation around Western attitudes towards death and its denial by the living.“Death is, in itself, a fortune, and life’s only guarantee or promise amidst a universe of uncertainty,” Coopoo says. “At what point in society do we accept the promise of death as ‘good fortune’? And furthermore, how does this fortune fashion and affect our becoming while we are alive?”Currently on view in 'Spring Awakening' until 17 June.Githan Coopoo
'My First Urn', 2022
Air drying clay, acrylic paint
42 x 26 x 12.5 cm
One-off#SouthernGuild #GithanCoopoo #SpringAwakening #ceramics #clay #airdryingclay #art #artist #urn #artwork #ironic #psychedeliccolour #colour #ombre #fortune #goodfortune #death #deathclub #contemporaryart #southafricanartist #ceramicart

May 13

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Designer @cheicko26 calls attention to the "the savoir-faire of the Bamako craftsmen" through his work. After studying and working as an architect and designer in France, Diallo returned to his home city of Bamako to establish his studio, deciding from the start to restrict himself to working only with local, “poor” materials and artisanal skills. Over the past 20 years he has become a major figure on the continent and is often cited as the first person to develop conceptual design in an African context.#SouthernGuild #CheickDiallo #artisan #craftsman #designprocess #workinprocess #furnituredesign #furniture #design #collectibledesign #limitededitiondesign #leather #tiedye #africancraft #bamako #mali #westafrica #westafricancraft #artisanal #organic #shape #form #africandesigner #designer

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