30 june - 28 july 2007
Opening: Saturday 30 June 2007,  5-7pm

>“Thought Traffic”, a sketching exhibition

 

 

“Thought Traffic” is an informal exhibition that consists of contemporary artists who produce drawings within the context of the everyday. The body of work illustrates the ways in which drawing permeates artists’ experience of daily life: image-making invades agenda’s, minutes, colonises the margins of official documents, takes possession of envelopes, serviettes, and plagues diaries and personal organisers.  In this way, the exhibition gives a “behind the scenes” look at how drawing, as a way of experiencing the world, is manifesting itself within the context of the every day.  Many of the works on the show reveal a poetic engagement with routine and the common place, exploring of tensions between writing and image making, distraction and attentiveness, the private and autobiographical in relation to public identity.  There is a sense of searching in this collection of works, a refreshing lack of resolution, finish, formality normally associated with formal art exhibitions, which the curators hope may give viewers insights into how contemporary artists exist in the world. 

Artist’s sketch books will be available for viewing on the opening night.

Artist’s featured:

Alison Kearney, Antoinette Murdoch, Brenden Gray, Cara Snyman, David Andrew, Diane Victor, Frederick Clarke, Garth Doyle, Givan Lötz, Gordon Froud, Hannah Morris, Jan-Henri Booyens, Jason Bronkhurst, Jennifer Kopping, Landi Raubenheimer, Marlise Keith, Onica Lekuntwane, Paul Cooper, Rhett Martyn, Same Mdluli, Sonja Britz, Tamsin Relly