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Speaking Out – Boyce Magandela (Moving Still) -
Mothercraft – Fikile Mqhayi (Moving Still) -
Retirement of a Car Parking – Sandile Mhlongo (Moving Still) -
Lumka-Ingozi-Gevaar! – Lindile Magunya (Moving Still) -
Untitled – Emalie Bingham (Assemblage) -
Still Swimming – Emma Nourse (Assemblage) -
Arboreal Situation – Elsabé Milandri (Assemblage)
WORDS Cheri Morris
Nando’s Creative Exchange, in partnership with Spier Arts Trust, is celebrating seven emerging South African artists in a two-part exhibition, held at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery.
This stellar initiative is more than just a group exhibition that demonstrates the work of up-and-coming artists with exceptional ability; it is a mentorship programme that spans over three months and up-skills artists with previously limited exhibition experience. The programme includes the sponsorship of artistic materials and professional mentorship, as well as equipping the artists with the independence and experience they’ll need to approach galleries in the future.
This year’s participating artists include Boyce Magandela, Fikile Mqhayi, Lindile Magunya, Sandile Mhlongo, Emalie Bingham, Elsabé Milandri and Emma Nourse. The artists were able to choose their own groups and then work together to devise themes. This year’s themes are MOVING STILL and ASSEMBLAGE.
MOVING STILL sees Emalie Bingham, Elsabé Milandri and Emma Nourse allowing and trusting their instinctive responses to images, objects and text to build each surface one mark at a time. The departure point for this body of work is their personal, subconscious thought-paths and inner landscapes. The result is art pieces that exist as sites of both rest and compelling energy.
ASSEMBLAGE sees the arrangement of two- and three-dimensional elements in one artwork by Boyce Magandela, Fikile Mqhayi, Lindile Magunya and Sandile Mhlongo. This body of work sees the combined response of each artist to their direct environment and required the artists to challenge themselves conceptually, as well as through medium, process, scale and ambition.
The exhibition runs until 9 December 2017 at the AVA Gallery, located at 35 Church Street in Cape Town.
