Fat Tuesday Kloof

What does it mean to belong to a place?

Home - origin - family - present - emotions

Christina Pickering was born in Swakopmund (Namibia), educated in Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch and Pretoria.

She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in KZN but this particular exhibition is her first as a solo artist.

Over the last few months, I have been thinking a great deal about weddings and the traditions that surround them.  I have photographed weddings from all over the cultural spectrum, ranging from the conventional to the more adventurous.  During the process I began to think about the often strange traditions which have become integral to the wedding process and in doing so, gradually invented some traditions of my own.  I started to imagine a culture in which it is customary for a couple to braid their hair together on their wedding day - literally binding themselves together.

The exhibition is essentially a photographic story set in the late 1960's, capturing an ordinary weekend lived by a couple in their early 50's.  Although they are physically bound together, over the years they have become emotionally dislocated.  The series aims to capture this disconnect, often using the braid itself as the dividing line between the husband and wife.

Xavier Vahed

15 jan - 9 feb 2013

the black easels is an exhibition of drawings by Coral Spencer, Jane Oliver, Michele Silk, Morgan Riekert and Sean Simons. These 5 artists meet once a week to draw together. This is a showing of their efforts in their year together.

The Fattest of Tuesdays opens on Tuesday the 11th of December at 6pm
Artworks by Francoise Cheyne, Gail Dahl, Harry Lock, Joan Martin, Lesley Magwood Fraser, Lara Melon, Lieze Meyer, Nicole Pletts, Pascale Chandler, Susan Kraus and Wesley van Eeden.
Ceramics by Lynette Morris Hale, Helen Vaughan and Francoise Cheyne.

Gluwein, mince pies, Christmas Carollers in Concert and face painting make this an event you dont want to miss even if the rain threatens to wash us all away!

Our current exhibition is a collaboration of five artists. "Who I am" was opened on 20 November by Grace Kotze.

The artists Suraya Tewary, Jane Oliver, Deidre Maree and Grace Kotze are exhibiting paintings and Louise Jennings has displayed some porcelain vessels to compliment her paintings, these are also for sale.

Please join us for a walkabout with Grace and Louise on Saturday 24 November at 10 am. This exhibition will be on until 8 December 2012.

Agapanthus High Tea

 

  Collared Sunbird

 

Gold Diggers

 

 

 

Beth will be chatting about her work and techniques on Saturday 10 November 2012 and will be working in the gallery on Tuesday 13 November from about 9am - 2pm.

Come and see the tiny egg shells, dragonflies, frogs and teacups - you will be amazed!

In an effort to assist the Hillcrest Aids Centre in their fundraising and in creating a festive atmosphere we have decided to yarn bomb two of the trees on our campus. Yarn bombing is not as one would image, bombing trees with balls of yarn, but rather covering the tree with knitted or crocheted squares to form a colourful blanket.

Hillcrest Aids Centre pay people in the community to knit and crochet these squares and are trying to get more Christmas dinners on the table this year by attempting to cover their big tree with as many squares as possible.

Fat Tuesday's position in all this is to be a depot for donations of wool (nice festive colours), needles, squares and money. Our bucket is at the door so please bring all you have to spare. Your donations will go to either our tree or theirs. It's immaterial really as all the proceeds go to the men and women creating the squares.