Cape Town in a Box - in clear = DONE

WOOHHOOOO
And it flatpacks
And it is neat and tidy

A birthday under a tree in Kirstenbosch = perfect

Cavendish - The Bird of Books

The bird is 1.8m across and 1.6 high
Made from rolled books attached to 6mm MDF board
The legs and beaks are covered in book pages

New book Artwork for Design Indaba

Ugly boarding and now it's HAPPY

Using tin cans from the Cavendish Recycling plant and cutting them into daisies.
Really cheerful
Happy Happy Joy joy
Seemed to cheer lots of people up this morning making their way in to Cavendish
They actually spoke to me while installing
IMAGINE strangers talking to each other
In Cape Town!
And anyone can do it... nice addition to any dreary wall anywhere
Go out and make tin can daisies people

Cavendish - Lift Lobby on Parking Level 1 - The Pause for a thought Room

The new tea towels - new colours and fabric

Looked at printed samples today over at Fittees of the new colours - blue, gold (has a nice sparkle) and orange as before and now Cerise red too.  Really like the new fabric I am using now from Hemporium  - 60% cotton / 40% hemp blend in natural with this nice slub in it.  Same designs as before  - Cup of Tea and Wink for fun etc

Teaching Origami

I've spent the last week basically living at Cavendish Square while putting up some paper installations - a rather surreal experience and not something I would recommend to anyone.  Though I do find it quite peaceful at about 1130 at night when no one else is there and the building seems to just hum.  Bizarre.

Anyway - from Monday to Thursday this week I have been doing Origami classes with 8 different schools from the surrounding areas assisted by various kind people (Kate, Linda, Ute - Thank you).  Vida'e Cafe kindly donated a stack of old Obrigado magazines for folding.  Groups of 20 kids at a time all clustered round the table.  The other part of this is that they also paint the boarding that is up around the escalators supervised by Lizanne.  The results have surpassed all my expectations and we are all well pleased.

Cavendish Installation project - nearly done

Cavendish square Parking Level 1 Lift Lobby - it's nearly done. 


The elements: 


Wallpaper with old books from the recycling pile


origami creepers folded from Obrigado magazines


some quotes on patience 


The best part the Plants in the empty 2 Litre bottles 


= I AM HAPPY with the result

(better photos coming soon)

Wrapping paper

Spotted this on someone's desk

New work for the animals

NEW: Freedom - Cry the Beloved Country

Folded from Alan Paton's 'Cry the Beloved Country'
Swallows cut from Cape Liner and coloured with lead pencil on one side

The trees coming along

No we are not sponsored by Col'cachio - they just kindly gave me a bunch of pizza boxes to work with

Windmill flowers for the Fringe Arts

Flowers that never die...
And they are made from paper that was going to be pulped...
So happy days all round

Scenes from the museum

It might be time

Yes  - I think it's definitely time to buy one her pieces...
I'll be there early tomorrow

You are invited to join us on the opening night Wednesday 15 February 2012 at 19h30.

 

 

15 Feb – 10 Mar 2012 

 

Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection        

  

 

Something like now 

The work in this exhibition is intended as a kind of letter to the artist’s children when they are the age she is now (they are now respectively 2 and about to be born) to give them an idea of the present in general and their parents’ present in particular. Photographs from places they’ve been and cellphone shots of family and friends are painted in ink on paper, some in black and white, some in vivid tones. Paintings of critically endangered animals are accompanied by stories about the mundane (not unlike Facebook status updates), questioning our attitude towards mass culture and loss, and environmental concern is visualised in terms of caring for our children. Phrases and bits of conversations are used in the works to give them an idea of what our beliefs, fears, hopes and language were like. Faux info charts, maps and graphs lends (faux) authority, objectivity and credibility to this very subjective project.  

 

Medium:  Collage, watercolour, acrylic and ink on paper.  

Cavendish installation project - work in progress

Bird of rolled books  - 65 paperbacks from the recyclers - measuring 1.4m x 1.7m

Tealight Cuff experimentation...

And it's flatpack people... flatpack... unlike all those CT in a box moments

Milnerton market purchase - how lovely of city hall - by a JS Marais

Mountain Sunday - Jonkershoek - what a day!

Retro lichen

Origami Rabbits

Blue Purple something