(Forgive the quality of this image – I broke my crap camera and will from now on be taking gallery pix on my even more crap phone…)
Spent much of Monday with Gordon Froud and Franci Cronje, both of whom will be writing pieces about my current show at Outlet gallery in Pretoria (Franci for Beeld, Gordon will see where he wants to publish after he writes it). After spending some time talking about my work with them, I head over to Gordon (the gallerist at Gordart)’s studio for the first time – it’s awesome. He’s got a collection of art, CDs, records and books that may just rival Warren Siebrits’, but Gordon mostly uses them to produce his own odd juxtapositional art. i think the most interesting thing in Gordon’s studio must be his collection of large pots and pans – the sourced / found objects he’ll be using to produce a huge 3D mobile for a recent CSIR (Science and Technology) commission. (Shown right, just half of one leg of this many-metered monstrosity.)
It was actually the first time I took a close look at Froud’s body of work (he took me through the books), and I have to say I’m a little humbled and awestruck by the scale, amount, and committment of/to his seriously/funny history.
Froud – where can we see more / online? The things you do with cups….
