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THK Gallery is proud to present a curated selection of recent works by Trevor Stuurman, Lulama Wolf, Anya Paintsil and Driaan Claassen at 1-54 New York. This presentation is exemplary of the breadth and richness of contemporary South African art and celebrates the plurality of African identity and expression.
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Trevor Stuurman
From Africa With LoveInternationally renowned creative visionary Trevor Stuurman will be exhibiting his latest body of work From Africa with Love for the first time at 1-54 New York. Stuurman captivates viewers with the vibrant worlds he creates which celebrate African culture and identity via the intersection of fashion, culture and artistry. From Africa with Love is an exciting expansion on Stuurman’s interest in African aesthetic traditions and brings them into regal, futuristic worlds of his creation. Stuurman uses traditional cultural symbols which Southern African clans would use as a means of symbolic communication - prosperity in the cowrie shell, royal blood or chiefdom in the leopard skin, and identifications of the family unit in the black and white beaded Zulu love letters. Trevor Stuurman expands his oeuvre to the blending of historical and futuristic worlds in From Africa with Love, and continues to redefine the applications of lens-based media on the continent. -
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Lulama Wolf
Lulama Wolf is a visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the intersection of Neo-Expressionism and Modern African Art, Lulama Wolf interrogates the pre-colonial African experience through the contemporary mind by smearing, scraping and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture, and the patterns created largely by women to decorate traditional African homes. -
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Driaan Claassen
Driaan Claassen first studied 3D animation before apprenticing with Otto du Plessis, founder of Bronze Age Foundry. Claassen is currently based in Cape Town, where he opened his own design and fine art studio, Reticence, in 2015. Claassen works primarily in bronze, wood, and wire. Inspired by technology from a young age, he elevates the materiality of his sculptural mediums by merging cutting-edge machinery, traditional craftsmanship, and deep introspection. -
Anya Paintsil
Anya Paintsil is a London based textile artist of Welsh and Ghanaian heritage. Combining traditional hand rug making techniques with afro hair styling methods, Anya's practice is largely autobiographical, taking inspiration from her childhood in North Wales, family stories, and Welsh and Ghanaian mythologies - while exploring identity, gendered labour and seeking to promote artistic practices historically devalued due to their associations with femininity and other marginalised groups. -
Samuel Nnorom
Born in Nigeria in 1990, Samuel Nnorom is a multi-award-winning artist whose work poetically crosses tapestry-like sculpture and pre-loved Ankara wax fabric. Since early childhood, elements that now shape his contemporary practice have surrounded him: sketching portraits of customers who visited his father’s shoe shop and playing with colourful scraps from his mother’s tailoring workshop crystallised his artistic vocation.
THK Gallery | 1-54 New York 2024
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