Visitor
Not quite the end of November, as originally promised, but because I wanted to publish as many of the drawings possible - created during my one day residency at the Irma Stern Museum - a double volume, special edition of The Book of Immediate Nonsense is now available for viewing.
'Visitor' is the result of a one day artists residency programme conceptualised as part of artist Liza Grobler’s solo exhibition, with the same name, held at the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town - October 2009.
My idea, for the day spent in Stern’s downstairs Drawing Room, was to create a series of rapid sketches in response to the portrait paintings displayed on the walls. They are reactionary drawings that confront the depicted subjects as would a ghost, an unexpected visitor, or an imaginary friend. In many cases more than one drawing was made for a particular painting, and I approached the series in a chronological manner – as they are shown on the walls.
These sketches are not intentionally subversive, or meant as puns in any way, but merely, a playful engagement with the subjects present in the room and, as The Book of Immediate Nonsense would have it, my way of acknowledging one of our country’s memorable artists.
Note: I have given most of my drawing new titles; and where appropriate I have put Stern’s label in parenthesis.
Additional links:
www.dayresidencies.blogspot.com
www.lizagrobler.co.za
