"Urban Trails" 16 September - 5 October

Walkabout on Saturday, 5 October starting at 11a.m. 

All are welcome and it is free.

Urban Trails is an exhibition of creative practice by public art collective, VUKA NDLOVU, birth from collaborative processes that considered public and urban environments as the primary site for artistic intervention. These Interdisciplinary works manifested throughout various public spaces in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and the Midlands, and the by-products from these interactions were used as a starting point for the development of object and installation based artwork, which is presented in the exhibition. Documentation of the ephemeral public and site specific works will accompany these works in the exhibition.  

Artists: VUKA NDLOVU: Nicholas Crooks, Natalie Fossey, Muziwandile Gigaba, William le Cordeur, Matthew Ovendale, Rob Mills, Modisa Motsomi, Wayne Reddiar and Sita Suzanne. 

“A Life In Common” 25 September - 10 October 2012

“A Life In Common”

A collective exhibition by Kwa-Zulu-Natal-based artists, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Matthew Ovendale,  Muziwandile Gigaba, Peter McKenzie, Rob Mills  and Wayne Reddiar.

Matthew Ovendale, "Please Touch, 2011, pen, ink and video recordings

The exhibition titled “A Life In Common”, portrays exactly that. It stands as a collection of artistic insights and experiences of various African cities, their emerging cultures and engrained states of flux.

Participating artists are as varied as the works that they have produced. Finding commonality in the artistic trend of utilizing signs, consciously or not in a didactic relation to these city environments.

The signs imbued in the works stand as points that have meanings other than themselves, allowing for the communication of information that resides both in plain sight and in avenues that are all too often overlooked. The works are a culmination of the artist’s predisposition to explore their experiences through the possibilities that creativity affords.

This body of work frames these cities as consolidations of incalculable human development and interaction. With an eclectic array of mediums and subject matter, providing both societal and individual insights into the depths of city living and the complexity of this evolution. 

Ends on Saturday, 13 October 2012