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Folly, Deceit And The Risk Of Thunder Drawing

Bonita Alice

South Africa

Drawing, Acrylic on Paper

Size: 59.1 W x 59.1 H x 0.1 D in

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This work is one of a series of multi-panel works on paper installations. Each panel is approximately 32cm in diameter. The size of the installation itself is variable. In these works I refer to events of natural disaster in a graphic-novel type form, suggesting the unfolding of a narrative. The images are sometimes metaphorical, but occasionally refer to specific historical events, for instance, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, as an example of how disruptions in the human world translate into environmental catastrophe. The works reflect my concern for the actual unfolding of the narrative of climate breakdown. My ironic use of decoration is inspired by art-historical traditions like Japanese painting and printmaking, and Indian miniatures, where even the most gruesome and violent events are aestheticised and rendered beautiful. It is my intention that the dissonance between the violence on the one hand and the decorativeness on the other, heightens the pain of the subject.

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Multi-paneled Drawing:

Acrylic on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

59.1 W x 59.1 H x 0.1 D in

Number of Panels:

20

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I am a South African artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I lectured in Sculpture in Johannesburg before moving to London in 2007. I returned to South Africa in 2020. My work reflects my concern with our emotional dependence on the natural environment, and our conflicted and inconsistent relationship with other animals. I am preoccupied with the idea, reflected in my artistic practice, that we suffer some kind of emotional disruption when we are inattentive and don’t recognise our duty of stewardship to the natural world of which we are a part. The result is internal, or emotional, chaos - individual or collective - in the human world which is expressed in external crises; in environmental destruction, for example. My work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Durban Art Gallery, The UNISA (University of SA) Art Gallery, The SA Reserve Bank, Standard Bank Collection, WAM (Art Museum of the University of the Witwatersrand).

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