Monday 30 January 2012

some more interesting artists for my matrics

Bronwen-Vaughan Evans
http://www.artthrob.co.za/04may/listings_kzn.html#nsa2
'One Zero One' by Bronwen Vaughan-Evans at the NSA Mezzanine Gallery
Bronwen Vaughan-Evans will be presenting an exhibition of detailed small works (each measuring 13cm X 13cm) making up large-scale composite pieces. Each panel is intensely detailed and laboured and each has an iconic feel, incorporating everyday images from the artists` environment and life history. They are also, to an extent, an investigation into the nature of nationality and identity as well as reference to childhood memories, which are often visual rather than verbal.Some of the works are historical, and contain images from junior school textbooks; others make reference to nursery rhymes or resemble pop-art depictions of common South African products. Many of the works include found objects which range from small plastic toys to old badges and emblems that reflect fragments of our past.
Vaughan-Evans' subject matter is chosen almost at random, like a flow of thought in which no single image is more or less significant than any other. Through this, the works acquire the shifting qualities of small flashes of memory and dream.
The title of the exhibition 'One Zero One', refers primarily to the number of small works that make up the composite piece, but also makes reference to binary systems. Each work, like the zeros and the ones that make up the binary code, has an alternating level of significance that is dependant on its position relative to the other works. It is only when the individual digits of binary are grouped together that fluctuating patterns begin to emerge and acquire meaning.
Vaughan-Evans received her Masters of Arts in Fine Art in 1995 from the University of Natal. She has lectured there part time and is also a qualified art teacher. She is currently a full-time artist, and was last year seen on the Brett Kebble Art Awards show in Cape Town. This is her first solo exhibition.
Opens: May 25 at 6pm
Closes: June 13

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