Press Releases Archives - Cape Town Art | Jill Trappler https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/category/news/press-releases/ Fine Artist | Painter | Cape Town | South Africa Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:17:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-Jill-Logo-1-32x32.png Press Releases Archives - Cape Town Art | Jill Trappler https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/category/news/press-releases/ 32 32 ORANGE ART group media release https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/orange-art-group-media-release/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:17:56 +0000 https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=3671 Exhibition, 6 Spin street gallery, Cape Town. 17th February to 6 March 2021. This is the second of a trio of exhibitions funded by the NAC covid relief fund and the PESP. View the online catalogue here 26 artists from the Orange art group are exhibiting work made during lockdown. The WhatsApp interaction is facilitated ... Read more

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]]> Student Review: Jill Trappler and Eunice Geustyn’s ‘Half Light and Shadow ’ Eunice Geustyn & Jill Trappler https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/student-review-jill-trappler-and-eunice-geustyns-half-light-and-shadow-eunice-geustyn-jill-trappler/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:00:36 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1817 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

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]]> Jill Trappler Fine Music Radio Interview https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/jill-trappler-interview/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:45:11 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1786 The post Jill Trappler Fine Music Radio Interview appeared first on Cape Town Art | Jill Trappler.

]]> Light, darkness and depth to mull over https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/light-darkness-and-depth-to-mull-over/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:30:12 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1777 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

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]]> AVA September 2016, “half-light and shadows” https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/ava-september-2016-half-light-and-shadows/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:17:04 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1768 An exhibition with Eunice Guestyn [URIS id=1761]

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]]> The paintings for the exhibition at AVA, “Half light and shadow” are from an ongoing series, “weaving and unwoven”. https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/the-paintings-for-the-exhibition-at-ava-half-light-and-shadow-are-from-an-ongoing-series-weaving-and-unwoven/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:34:36 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1759 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

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]]> Thupelo press release https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/thupelo-press-release/ Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:02:55 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1552 The post Thupelo press release appeared first on Cape Town Art | Jill Trappler.

]]> ‘Unfolding her’ https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/unfolding-her-3/ Wed, 27 May 2015 11:02:56 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1386 Jill Trappler AVA, 30 April 2015 The other day Jill and I reminisced about when we first met, in 1986 – at the Thupelo workshop in Broederstroom outside Johannesburg. She went on to become an active participant and leader in the Thupelo workshops, the driving force behind Greatmore Studios in Cape Town and the Fordsburg ... Read more

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]]> ‘Unfolding Her’ https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/unfolding-her-2/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:51:21 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1369 The AVA is pleased to present “Unfolding Her” by Jill Trappler Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.    ‘To the Lighthouse’ Virginia Wolf In “Unfolding Her” Jill Trappler explores the notion ... Read more

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]]> ‘BREATH’ https://www.jilltrappler.co.za/breath/ Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:09:34 +0000 http://www.jilltrappler.co.za/?p=1226 JILL TRAPPLER at ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTS (AVA) presents a solo exhibition of recent paintings 22 January to 10 February 2001 The Association for Visual Arts (AVA) at the Metropolitan Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, is hosting a one-person exhibition of recent paintings, “Breath”, by Cape Town artist and art educator, JILL TRAPPLER, in ... Read more

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