Student Review: Jill Trappler and Eunice Geustyn’s ‘Half Light and Shadow ’ Eunice Geustyn & Jill Trappler

By Keren Bauman AVA, Cape Town 01.09.2016 – 01.10.2016 The saying, enough is enough, is what comes to mind after viewing the collaborative exhibition ‘Half Light and Shadow’ by Jill Trappler and Eunice Geustyn. The violent heavily symbolic content of Geustyn’s work comes together with the psychological abstract work by Trappler in confusing contrast and … Read more

UCT Summer School 2017

Dear Summer School participant It is with pleasure that  we announce that our Summer school 2017 brochure is on line. Please note that Summer School takes place from Monday 16 to Friday 27 January. Please use the link below: http://www.summerschool.uct.ac.za/                             Click … Read more

Unfolding into Spring

You are invited to An exhibition of new work by Jill Trappler Unfolding into Spring Opening Saturday, 8 October 2016 at 11am Irma Stern Museum, Rosebank, Cape Town http://www.irmasternmuseum.org.za/bulk_messaging/2016_09a_invite.htm Jill Trappler | Eclipse

Light, darkness and depth to mull over

The fact that visual art has the ability to communicate beyond words, almost in ‘another language’, gives it almost always the emotional edge when the subject is about painful issues or about the deeper human condition. In this regard the fine, blue stitches of surgical thread, barely visible in Eunice Geustyn’s work of mixed media, … Read more

Unfolding into spring

Irma Stern Museum The University of Cape Town Jill Trappler, Eclipse, Series: Weaving and Unwoven, 2015/2016, acrylic on canvas, 160 x 240 cm Jill Trappler Unfolding into spring Opening Saturday the 8th October at 11 am Please join us at the opening of “unfolding into spring”. A solo exhibition of new work by Jill Trappler … 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 paint and various media and are found in scribbling, drawing, dripping, pouring, layering, scratching, polishing and painting. They are tracked into the surface and found in the pigment and handwork. Like an archaeologist finds bones and fossils in the rock and earth, the images are found in … Read more