Rust-en-Vrede Exhibitions and Events

SPI National Portrait Award 2013

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OUR JUDGES HAVE BEEN FINALIZED

Judith Mason, Vulindlela Nyoni, Hayden Proud

SNEAK PEEK

OUR NEXT EXHIBITION

18 JUNE - 18 JULY

IN SALON A Group Exhibition of Miniatures by various artists including: Paul Birchall, Jan du Toit, Judy Woodborne, Corlie de Kock, Jaco Benade, Candice Dawn B.

IN SALON B & C Theo Paul Vorster

SPI Portarit Award Judges

02 Judith Mason

Judith Mason was born in Pretoria in 1938. She attended the University of Witwatersrand from 1957 and obtained a BA Degree in Fine Art in 1960. Her first solo show was in 1964.

Today, with a career that spans 45 years, Judith Mason is one of South Africa’s most distinguished artists, working in traditional media: oil painting, pencil drawing, print-making and mixed media. Mason is a technically disciplined artist, her technique, which does not rely on exterior processes, is sometimes mistaken for photographic tromp l’oeil effect.

In the 1970s and 80s, for more than a decade, while represented by the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mason was highly visible in the South African art world at a time when the country was isolated both politically and culturally from the rest of the world. Even so, she was chosen to represent South Africa at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel and other international art fairs. She taught drawing and History of Art at Witwatersrand University from 1963 until 1978. In the early 1990s, South Africa became a democracy, and Judith returned from living and teaching in Florence, Italy. At this time, her work became part of the National South African School and University curricula and she also taught drawing and painting at Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town for a short time.

She chose rather to produce work as an outsider and to exhibit less frequently, occasionally showing with the Karen McKerron Gallery in Johannesburg and the Chelsea Gallery in Cape Town. Still prolific well into in the 21st century, Mason has exhibited selectively with Art On Paper in Johannesburg, the Pretoria Arts Association, and East End Gallery, East Hampton, New York and at Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

EXHIBITIONS

21 May - 13 June: Martin Swart, Margot Hattingh & Fine Ounce Jewelry at Rust-en-Vrede

EXHIBITION: SALON A

Martin Swart

Martin Swart's "Cutting Edges" was created on his family farm in the beautiful Overberg. He is a qualified potter and specializes in porcelain, stoneware and earthenware pottery, thrown on the potter’s wheel, both for in- and outside use.

EXHIBITION: SALON B

Fine Ounce Jewelry

Fine Ounce is committed to promoting the art of handmade contemporary jewelry and so elevates the status of uniquely hand-crafted pieces over that of mass-produced goods. The collective currently comprises of 8 jewelers who approach their creative work from rather diverging, personal angles. The multitude of approaches brings with it a rich texture of creative energies, ideas, skills, strengths and know-how to create "A Breath of Fire".

EXHIBITION: SALON C

Margot Hattingh

Margot Hattingh is a contemporary artist, known for her wax encaustic work. Her exhibition "Impulse" is a referral to the nature of how she creates that work. She is always fascinated with the intimate, sometimes quirky, at others times idealized or even fraught relationships we have with the world around us.