I Seek Your Softness
Tender Explorations of Paint by emerging artists
This series of paintings forms part of I Seek Your Softness, a recent group exhibition showcasing the work of emerging painters Joëlle Joubert, Emily Rae Smith Labuschagne, Kay-leigh Fisher, and Dineo Ponde. United by a shared sensitivity in approach, the exhibition explores intimate gestures, tactile surfaces, and quiet emotional resonances.
These paintings speak to the intimacy, connection, and vulnerability required in order to experience a transfer of energy - of love, of care, of presence, of body warmth. It is the active energy generated by the very notion of being alive. And it is shared across bodies by their closeness, their company, their vulnerability, their care.
