Tell us about the works Art Gazette has acquired from you
They’re exercise orientated works based on looking at flowers in my studio.
What inspires you?
Colour and composition. I love looking at images or my environment and noticing how it can be broken down into shapes, forms and colours.
Would you describe your process as chaotic or methodical?
Probably both. My work is quite impulsive or spontaneous yet it requires structure and discipline in order to allow for this.
Who are your top artistic heroes?
David Hockney, for reminding me that painting can be light and an acknowledgment of one's personal surrounding and well-being.
Gerhard Richter, because he has been able to capture the dilemma that is painting in the 21st century.
Zander Blom, because he is so goddamn prolific, current, and working as an artist in Cape Town.
Which exhibition has left a lasting impact on you?
ELIZE VOSSGÄTTER: Artificial Selection
The exhibition is a series of paintings made with pigment and beeswax that look like paintings but are not made of paint in the traditional sense. The work takes its inspiration from patterns and structures created by small organisms and nature within its natural environment. In turn the work comments on our state of being, painting, and the fragility of our existence.
If galleries exist in 100 years, what will they look like?
Spaceships and transparent glass bubbles full of light.
Select one work you admire from the Art Gazette inventory
Ed Young’s - Random Shit. It feels like a tongue in cheek comment on the creative process and the type of work we’re submitting to Art Gazette, yet at the same time the work is not random at all and actually entirely considered, so I really like that.
If you could own any artwork in the world, which would it be and why?
Damien Hirst's ‘Shark’, because it's the most overindulgent piece of art ever created, or maybe second to his diamond encrusted skull. Putting a great white shark in formaldehyde and then selling that and then owning that. In my mind, that’s the closest you could get to God...
He has contained fear and beauty, awe and life and our relationship between man and nature so succinctly to reflect the profound nature of being human, it’s astonishing.
If you could work in any other medium, what would you choose and why?
I think film is the one medium with which you can grab someone's attention and allow them to immerse themselves in it because you’re using both visual and sound cues.
Film allows you to escape.
Why do you choose to work with Art Gazette?
I see Art Gazette as a platform that I can use to spread my work further afield and create a new network of people that may have not necessarily known about or seen my work before. It affords me the opportunity to assist in sustaining myself which in turn enables me to make more work.
