HAPPY BIRTHDAY SA artists: Mikhael Subotzky and Mary Wafer! Among his many international awards, Subotzky (born 15 September 1981) won the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art. In his final year at Michaelis School of Art at UCT (where he received a 100% pass-mark) , Subotzky spent three months inside the walls of Pollsmoor Prison, teaching classes in photography to the inmates and taking his own images. The following year, he spent several more months at Pollsmoor. On Freedom Day in April 2005, a one day exhibition was held for the first time within the walls of the prison, showing mainly the photographs shot by the prisoners in their workshops. Mikhael Subotzky lives and works in Johannesburg. Mary Wafer (born 15 September 1975) grew up in Durban. After three years of study at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, she relocated to Johannesburg and completed her advanced diploma in fine art at Wits University. Wafer’s father Jeremy Wafer is a practicing South African artist which most certainly contributed to Wafer’s choice to pursue a career in the arts. Wafer’s earlier works draw on images related to movement and transport; she explored issues of exclusion and marginality in relation to the notion of space. Through paintings of alienating peripheral structures, such as freeways and bridges, focusing on the architectures of transport and mobility, Wafer explores ideas of structural marginality and exclusion in a contemporary South African context. Images 1-3: Mikhael Subotzky Images 4-6: Mary Wafer
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:50:00 +0000
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