Monoprint Workshop 2008
Josie Grindrod focused on building up layered portraits of family, investigating congruencies between the processes of mono printing and painting. Grindrod's work investigates the relationships between image-making, psychoanalysis and childhood experience, in order to understand the ways that the self is articulated and interpreted. She explores those aspects of experience which are not communicable in words or which remain just outside consciousness. To this end, she exploits the improvisatory nature of paint. Grindrod, who holds an MA Visual Art from the University of Stellenbosch, held her first successful solo exhibition at the Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town in 2007. Her work is in the UCT Collection as well as in private collections. She has exhibited in numerous group shows. 
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Title: Size: Price: Sue Dickinson Monoprints 2008
Sue Dickinson, who is a full time artist, took a real departure from her regular artwork and turned her focus from the creatures of the bush and wildlife to the creatures of her soul. The work that she did during the workshop is strong, urgent and somewhat disturbing. Powerful stuff! Dickinson had exhibiting widely in South Africa and abroad and her work is in numerous international and local collections. To see more of Sue's work please go to:
Sue Dickinson's website
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Griet van der Meulen's work revolves around the natural world and the interaction that humans have with it. In her work she attempts to heal the damage that man has done to the earth. In her paintings she often uses salvaged materials and waste as elements in her work, these are carefully reworked to rendered into quiet images of great conviction. In her monoprints van der Meulen centered her images mostly around cage forms. These in part refer to her recent, and fortunately brief, imprisonment in the Graskop jail on charges that had more to do with police xenophobia (she assists a number of artists from other African countries) than her outstanding traffic fine. The "cages" have been combined with archetypal animal forms that mutate into humans and visa versa.
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Title: Size: Price: Erica Schoeman Monoprints 2008
Erika Schoeman took to the workshop almost as if it was a fantastic buffet that was allowing her the opportunity to show off her dexterity with image making. From her portraits to plants and landscapes her love and enjoyment of being South African is evident. She commented, " What I found interesting in the monoprints was the combination of lines, textures and colors. I draw a lot and the etchings that I have done are mostly monochromatic. I also work in wood, a very tactile medium but also monochrome. The bright colors were very exciting! What I would like to express? Balance between the accidental and the controlled. More that just pictures. Something about the state of "menswees". (being human)". 
Title: Straatkinders II ( Street Children II) Size: 58 x 43 cm Price: R 900 
Title:Toi-toi Size:58 x 43 cm Price:R 900 Laura Batchelor Monoprints 2008
Laura Batchelor focussed on plant and animal forms, building up her images with very painterly strokes. Batchelor is well known in the Lowveld for her botanical work. She exhibits locally at fairs such as the Botanical Society Indigenous plant sale. Her Work can be seen in the Nelspruit National Botanical Garden - the mural in the information room as well as many of the information panels placed around the garden and rain forest. She has done illustrations for Sappi posters and the Department of Health as well as private commissions.
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Title: Size: Price: Below are some brief résumé's for the monoprint artists. GRIET VAN DER MEULEN EXHIBITIONS: 1991 Schweikerdt award for excellence in final year of painting Tshwane University of Tech. Work in public collections: ERICA SCHOEMAN Media: Graphic work, Aquarelle and Wooden Sculptures Themes: People – portraits and nudes, Landscapes, Animals Exhibitions: Collections: Presented in the Art collections of the City Councils of Polokwane, Ermelo as well as in the Government Building of Mpumalanga Commissions: Head Office Safair Freighters, Kemptonpark. Recreation Hall of Atlas Aviation Cooperation, Kempton Park. Completed 3 panels for the Civic Centre in Rustenburg
SUE DICKINSON Represented by Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg Collections Exhibitions
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