Opening 30 July starting at 6:00/6:30pm AND Exchange and Artists' Choice Award on 4 August starting at 6:00/6:30pm with music by Odwa Bolo.
"d’Urban d’Art Exchange and
Artists' Choice Award"
Join us at artSPACE durban in this completely new
and exciting experience.This is an
artist-orientated event; we will have fun and pay tribute to ourselves as
artists.With most awards, the decision
is made by a panel of judges and often strangely influenced and rather
baffling.
With our Artists’ Choice Award, only the
participating artists have a vote for the winning three artists.We believe this gives a respectful ear to
you, our artists, so your voice and choice can be heard.The prizes on offer: 1st prize
R5,000, 2nd prize R2,000, 3rd prize R1,500 Lucky Draw of
R750 and R
250, R 150 and R 100 gift vouchers from Classic Canvas, R 500 and R 250gift vouchers
fromSpectrum, and R 500 gift voucher
from Village Hardware.
Here is how it works.The fun part is the d’Urban d’Art
Exchange.Each participating artist will
collect an entry form and a 50x35cm canvas (1 per person) from the gallery.Other media are
welcome, and are required to fit into the size criteria.Each artist on
entering agrees to a) take part in the draw that will see each artist take home
one piece of work by another participating artist (you may draw the winning
piece!). During the course of the week participating artists will vote for the
top three works on show.We want all
artists to sign their works, but then have the signatures covered.
The show will open at artSPACE durban on Monday 30th
July; it is only up for one week, so artists need to look carefully, and cast
their vote by Thursday 2nd August.The draw and award event is on Friday 3rd August. All artists
must be present to make their draw and collect their new work; and the three
prizewinners must be present to
receive their awards. No artist, no award!But remember: each participant will win/receive another artist's work
(could be the winner, a known or unknown artist)!
At
artSPACE durban we (the participating artists, that is) will thus vote and
crown the artSPACE durban Artists’ Choice Award of 2012.
artSPACE
durban Artists’ Choice Award of 2012 prizes:
1st prize R5,000
2nd prize R2,000
3rd prize R1,500
Lucky Draw R750
R
250, R 150 and R 100 gift vouchers from Classic Canvas
R 500 and R 250gift vouchers fromSpectrum
R 500 gift voucher from Village Hardware
There
will be a cash bar and car guards at the opening on Monday and prize-giving Friday.
The following exhibitions finish on Saturday, 28 July at 2pm.
Zane Lang Encounters Zane Lang
AND
Thembelihle = We have Hope Paintings by Liz Speight
COMING UP at artSPACE durban:
6 August – 10 August
“The Artist’s Eye”Watercolour Society KZN
The Watercolour Society of South Africa (WSSA) was founded
in 1975 with the objective of promoting the art and practice of watercolour
painting.
However, the society has members outside South Africa who
requested that the society expand the area of operations to include them – e.g.
Botswana, Namibia, Dubai.
In 2011 the society was renamed the Watercolour Society
Africa (WSA) and an associate society was formed for artists of all media
except watercolour, the Art Society Africa (ASA).
Paintings have been subject to a panel of five selectors.
Four jurors are Associates or Fellows of WSA or ASA and one juror is an outside
qualified selector who is not a member of WSA or ASA.
The participating artists from KZN are:
Shirley Howells, Lorna Panzenbock, Anne Cleveland, Barbara
Siedle, Marion Townsend, Margaret Burnard, Sue Pearson, Chris Reabow,Dianne Scott, Irma Isbister, Sue Green,
Rowena Wilkinson, Brian Duckitt, Shirley Yell, Joan Pegram, Thelma Buzzard,
Lilian Passet, Jeannette Edwards, Hester O’Brien, Maureen de Moor, Amanda
Leggat, Annette Hadley, Gloria Adams, Maureen Dixon, Lesley Crosby,and Sharon Gow.
Opening on Monday, 30 July at 7:30/8:00 pm with Music and Cash bar at the opening.
FOLLOW YOUR ART
Skateboarding, graffiti, tattoos, comics and design have not only
affected fashion, music, literature, and film, they have influenced a
generation of young artists who identify with the lifestyle and
counter-culture stance of these creative art forms born from the street.
Follow your Art hopes to include music, album covers, tattoos,
skateboards and “zines” that reveal the spirit and vitality of street
culture and its ever expanding influence on the youth of tomorrow.
The
unifying traits of these artists, whose styles still lie outside the
world of conventional gallery art, include an interest in pop culture
iconography and a nonsensical do-it-yourself attitude. Follow your art
traces the early influences on this new generation of Artists,
Filmmakers, Illustrators, Graffiti writers, Cartoonists and Designers,
and explores the broader cultural trends that make their work what it is
today.
Follow
your art aims to offer each artist an outlet to express their personal
perspectives to enable them to engage in an intercultural dialogue and
expose themselves to other sub cultural diversities within our city and
beyond. Have some fun whilst expressing who you are through your
respected art forms!
Artworks
handed in on time will be reviewed by the COLLECTIVE. The selected
artworks will be displayed and put on sale as part of a collective
showing. Deadline for submissions is 27 July 2012, 5pm.
GARTH LEZARD images on exhibition at the COLLECTIVE to help raise funds for Cheshire Home in Durban.
On
the 4th Dec 2010 Garth embarked on an epic journey to bicycle alone and
with no sponsorship through 24 countries on 6 continents over 30 000
kilometers. Garth is preparing to complete his final continent Oceania
riding around Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Samoa completing a three
and a half year journey in which he will also visit the Leonard Cheshire
Homes of these countries.
As
this is the final leg of this journey Garth has been courting various
media and sponsors. He intends to raise substantial funds for his local
Cheshire home in Durban and hopes to collect many mile dedications along
his way as well.
Please
support Garth`s attempt to go the extra mile through 1) bicycling a
mile or more with Garth 2) sponsoring parts of Garth's journey 3)
donating to Garth's chosen charity 4) follow Garth on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/garth.lezard).
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