Author Archives: Candice Cruse
Aug
Cecil Skotnes would traverse the use of several mediums over his lifetime of creation, but the attraction of woodcutting for Skotnes was in part the rarity of practice in this medium during his studies at Wits in the late 1940s. Skotnes maintains that the word ‘woodcut’ was not even mentioned during his years at art […]
I’ve been thinking about Susana’s previous Duo choice and her meditation on why she loves this country so much. It made me think about all of the cities and homes I’ve lived in across South Africa. These ventures into geographic nostalgia lead me to thinking about how much of this place that I live in, […]
This week we looked at works by Foni Kofi and Aidon Westcott. Included in our exhibition, Grounded, which formed part of the Hermanus FynArts Festival in June, is another work by Foni Kofi. One of the interesting conversations this work gave rise to was about the history of iconographic language in Africa. For one viewer, […]
Jun
Part of the Hermanus FynArts Festival, in collaboration with FynArts Gallery, Julia Meintjes Fine Art brings you ‘Grounded’.
May
In previous iterations of Duo, Susana and Candice would alternate selecting two works of art and writing about the pair. In this iteration, Candice chose one work and Susana, in response, the other- a painting by Foibe Amundaba and a work on paper by Peter Clarke. They then sat down and discussed these pieces; Candice’s […]
Apr
I recently went away for a few weeks with a friend and her family. It was the first time I was able to spend close and safe time with her nephew since just after he was born. Entering the Time of Two, his vocabulary is bursting and stumbling forth; a frightening thing to have a […]
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