ENTER THE SASOL NEW SIGNATURES COMP NOW!!!!
Sasol is sponsoring the NEW SIGNATURES Art competition for the 16th year – they are looking for fresh artistic talent in South Africa, from experimental to conceptual and cutting edge. Come on guys – let’s REPRESENT and make it visionary! Two simple rules – you have to be over 18 and your work must be original – there is even a facility to enter online and they’re including NEW …MEDIA as an artform… Fabulous! Entries must be in by the 12th July, the winning prize is R50 000. Check out the site for more info. Here’s an image of the work by last year’s winner – Richard...
Call for aspiring Animators – hurry!
HURRY UP! Deadline is the 13 January! If you’re an animator in the making and are looking for that chance to develop your skills, this is it – submit your portfolio for your chance to take part in the Animation Production Training Initiative: Call to Artists, Recent Fine Arts, Graphic Design or Animation Graduates Developing home grown APTItude – Anim…ation Production Training Initiative (APTI) The APTI partners will develop 13 innovative 3-minute animation films to be broadcast on SABC for our 6 to 9 year-old audience and are looking for synopsis that will go through a rigorous development process from January to March 2006. Then during the production phase of the films from March we aim to work with new talent in order to develop individual’s skills for SA’s animation industry. The cost of tuition is covered by the partners and a monthly stipend will assist the selected trainees during the 6 month training period. You will have to be available throughout this period, 5 days a week, 9am to 5pm. In order to apply we will require: *Your CV *A letter of motivation *A statement of availability to participate in development workshops and a commitment to work toward deadlines. *Application form Portfolio – to see level of artistic and drawing skills. Portfolio should consist of: *At least 2 figure studies, one should show capability with feet and hands * Minimum of 2 facial expression studies * At least 2 animal studies *Three drawings of original characters (cartoon, comic or any other style) * Any cartoon or caricature drawings * At least 2 drawings using perspective. (Landscape or cityscape) * Any other personal art, animation or design work. ALL WORK IN PORTFOLIO MUST BE ORIGINAL – NO COPIES OF EXISTING CHARACTERS OR TOUCHED UP PHOTOS MAY BE INCLUDED CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE INFO For any queries email...
Call for Jozi photo’s – snap away!
Put your money where your lens is… If you been snapping away at our gorgeous city and her people, here’s your chance to get your pics published. A publishing company is calling all photographers with a passion for Joburg to help them record the revival and rejuvenation of the city through a publication to appear early in 2006. Timed to capture and promote the new sen…se of optimism and pride manifest in this city, ‘The Passion Behind a City’ will include over 200 high quality photos that reflect the daily life, growth and renewal taking place in the greater Johannesburg area. “Joburg is pulsating with life and with unlimited optimism for the future – one in which all its peoples will participate. This is what we intend to capture in the book – with the help of some talented photographers,” says publisher Ken Preston of Affinity Publishing. Criteria used to select the material will include creativity and the extent to which it portrays the many landscapes and lifestyles of Joburg, including different communities and religions. There will for instance be a pictorial feature portraying 24 hours in Joburg. This will include not only famous landmarks and landmark brands, but also the life and character of the entire metropolitan area – from Midrand to Rosebank and Orange Farm, from the “far” east to the “wild” west. “We are looking for a wide selection of material, including commercial activity (eg, retail and business centres, city street scenes, traffic on the move), residential scenes (eg, different cultural communities), leisure activities (eg, major sporting and entertainment events), nature in the city (eg a thunderstorm over Joburg), and landmark features of the city. Photographers are welcome to include branded images, since brands are an inseparable part of the identity of the city,” says Preston. Photographers chosen to have their work featured will have a brief biography and contact details published in the book, and will receive 10 copies. They will be invited to display their work at a launch event. Photos can be submitted electronically to this email address initially in either high or low resolution. Please limit each picture to 1.5megs or less to avoid transmission problems. Alternatively, material can be submitted as 6×8 prints to Affinity Publishing, P O Box 672, Auckland Park,...
Get Cubed @ Carfax with Chris
If you’re sick of going out to thud thud thud and need some substance to your nightlife, check out this evening of multiple media and entertainment at CARFAX in Newtown on the 18 November 2005. The CUBE Inside Out & Outside In. Click here to go to the site. An exhibition of art combined with perf…ormance poetry, music and film @ CARFAX 39 Pim Street, Newtown JHB Friday 18th November 2005 9pm “Inside out and outside in is the subtitle for the CUBE concept. This aspect relates specifically to the Artists intentions, the viewers’ response, and the integration thereof.” “By recontextualising the exhibition format in a more inclusive and less elitist space, the work immediately becomes more accessible”. Be part of yet another creative inside and outside of body experience. Enjoy an unobtrusive exhibition that will allow you the choice of interacting along with various types of artist expressions covering digital, sculpture, film, mixed medium, vinyl print and performance art. The Cube will be showcasing the work of fine art graduate, Chris Hall, with a ten year reunion (retrospective) of personal expression through mixed medium. This takes the viewer on a journey through time and emotion to a place of political uncertainty and psychological instability. The latter will be complemented by poetry shared by Chris on the evening. Also featured will be the work of Ezli Van Niekerk, a young pop artist that shares his interpretations of the times with vibrant colour compositions. There will be live performance poetry by the alternative performance duo, Drivingfish, and the premier of a musical short film by director, Stanimir Stoykov....
FRANCHISE – exploring the real joy of PAINTING
The 44 Stanley avenue creative hub is a fabulous place to while away a few hours – next time you’re there pop into FRANCHISE, just one of the fabulara art galleries in the hood. This week is the last week of the SURFACE exhibition which features paintings by some of our top young artists: Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Doro…thee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Themba Shibase. They take us away from digital and back to basics as they celebrate all the wonderful aspects of painting as a medium. In the current global market, where art and commodity appear inseperable, and the tendency is to migrate towards “surfaceless” digital media, there is an apparent resurgence in the popularity of painting. Painting is being re-examined and celebrated as a medium which consistently resonates as a vehicle for expressing contemporary issues. Perhaps this trend is partly attributable to its having grown the most comfortable with its object status. This group exhibition brings together the work of several South African artists to explore current attitudes to the medium. Works by Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Themba Shibase, form a dynamic and diverse group show. While there are varying degrees of figuration, abstraction and painterliness in this selection, these artists are less concerned with the formal delimitations of their work. The focus of this exhibition is the physical, conceptual, and social space explored by painting. The emphasis is on discovery and celebration of painting as the embodiment of surface. FRANCHISE 44 stanley avenue, milpark, 2092, jhb, south africa tel +27 11 482 7995 / +27 84 453 3980 ” fax +27 11 482 1207...
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