Artist Statements Archives - South African Art | Jill Trappler

ORANGE ART GROUP, HISTORY. 1981 TO 2021

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:13:24 +0000

The Orange art groups started in response to a need for artists from various backgrounds and experiences to work together, sharing skills and ideas and interacting while making images or working on craft. These groups have remained open and inclusive. The paying students pay a drop-in fee which covers costs of models, rent and refreshments. ... Read more

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The Orange art Project in partnership with Home from home

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:58:35 +0000

In a post-Covid-19 era, it is crucial that human economies and social lives recognise the interconnectedness of all systems – of all life. Our preeminent aspiration should be a vision of a good life determined by health, empathy, harmony, care, respect, a sense of community, solidarity, and vitality among humans and ecosystems. We have ... Read more

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ORANGE ART GROUP, HISTORY. 1981 TO 2021

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:44:23 +0000

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GATHERING: A Community of Artists.

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:20:42 +0000

Inaugural Exhibition at Jaffer Modern, Cape Town Curated by Margie Murgatroyd Thoughts on the art of the Curator Curating an exhibition is essentially the act of delivering an experience that strategically mediates between a body of images and the viewer. A curated collection aims to engage the audience in a process of thought ... Read more

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Jill Trappler – A way of Reading

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:59:56 +0000

This essay was commissioned by ASAI. It is the original, unedited copy. “There are things that seem like secrets that someone is keeping, but aren’t being kept by anyone.“ Cesar Aira, The Seamstress and the Wind[1] To read a painting, I feel, one must gather some insight into its origins, look to the ... Read more

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JILL TRAPPLER

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:18:21 +0000

ARTIST STATEMENT 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 when staying in other parts of the world. Although each place has its ... Read more

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Reference to the series, “Threshold” (Mbiri, chimes, Kora, gong)

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:08:14 +0000

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 nuance quickly when trying to assign figure and structure. The music came through. I find ... Read more

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Unedited, original text for Reverberation

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:29:40 +0000

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 current path is described by this collection of images. This body of work could have ... Read more

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Jill Trappler Art and activism Subaltern voice

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:00:01 +0000

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 of the colour, the dance and the music. The combination of the three “art forms” ... Read more

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“Ninth street women”

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:29:16 +0000

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 be sure of – themselves. The result was abstraction free of anything but the material ... Read more

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