by Jill Trappler; exhibition Trio, Obs 2020. “Because of the almost figurative representations of sticks and large blocks of colour, It was as if I could grasp a subject. However, this perception was false; I fell into ambiguity and … Read More
October 2019 My story is like water between the deep earth and the great sky. The story flows and it finds a way into images. It is the journey of the eye which expands and shrinks, carries and unloads. The … Read More
The dance and sound awaken the audience’s imagination and the begin to flirt with the viewer igniting a sensual experience of being present in the space. This moves to the paintings and the viewer becomes aware of the radiating vitality … Read More
From “Ninth street women” Mary Gabriel. “ Artists who were able to , who needed to work despite the desolation of the times, had been forced to look deeper for a subject, to look inside the only thing they could … Read More
Jill Trappler’s “Unfolding Her” is an exhibition about individuality or the search for individuality. Permeating through the fabrics, canvases and threads are signs for borders and traversal of those that the artist negotiates. Stitched in the crevices and lines of … Read More
The paintings for the exhibition at AVA, “Half light and shadow” are from an ongoing series, “weaving and unwoven”. The images are made on canvas with acrylic … Read More
I see the dreams of water, I see water dreaming. The four paintings, called “I see the dreams of water, I see water dreaming” flowed onto the canvases one after the other over a year or so. There was no … Read More
The two works titled ‘Cosmos 1’ and ‘Cosmos 2’ come from the large body of work: ‘Unfolding Her’. In this series of mixed media works I looked at the personal and the collective in each image. To elaborate; I tried … Read More
Many writers, poets, musicians and visual artists have been struck by what is uniquely and ineffably African, and tried to express this in their work. One feels the African geography and all the people who inhabit the landscape most acutely … Read More
“This is where we meet” An exhibition of paintings, KZNSA gallery, Durban, May 2006 There is something unique about a meeting place, a “metaxy”, where personal boundaries coalesce and open up an offering for interaction and discovery. This exhibition explores … Read More