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Untitled sketch (hands) Painting

Bonita Alice

South Africa

Painting, Watercolor on Paper

Size: 11 W x 15 H x 0.1 D in

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This watercolour sketch is one of a number I made in preparation for a series of acrylic paintings in which mysterious hands, partly hidden by drapery, can be seen doing something we can’t quite understand. It’s unclear whether we’re witnessing kindness or cruelty. I make images about our complicated and inconsistent relationships with other animals. We love some animals as family but manage to ignore or justify as routine the casual violence towards others. My images are often inspired by some traditions of Japanese images. The hands of figures in certain Japanese figurative works are vividly descriptive and animated; the figures they belong to are almost always lyrically and elegantly described regardless whether they are loving or fighting. I prefer sketching in watercolour because it is difficult to control and so produces more surprising results. Perhaps the viewer will be equally fascinated, curious and disturbed by the uncertain activity depicted, but remain compelled by the decorative nature of the circular image.

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Watercolor on Paper

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11 W x 15 H x 0.1 D in

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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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