Exhibition

Winning SASOL New Signatures 2013

Mmutle Arthur Kgokong: Good morning Dots, It’s a privilege to be with you at the Pretoria art museum and to look at the exhibition having won SASOL New Signatures 2013   Dot Vermeulen: Thank you it’s a privilege to be here [SMILES]   MAK: With the video installation, I can remember of the lady paging through a magazine or a book   DV: Yes   MAK: …and there was also a painting behind that animation of the exact image, but you know there was a stillness of the painting and there was an animation with the computer image or the images that was shown on the computer. One may wonder and say what were your thoughts when you won the SASOL New Signatures 2013, what went through your mind when you were told?   DV: I did not expect it at all, I was absolutely stunned and quite overwhelmed, feeling extraordinary, it was a very big surprise, very big surprise, yes.   MAK: Before then did you enter other art competitions or it was the first time?   DV: I took part in the SASOL New signatures twice before, and in the hundred finalists round, but I have never before become a finalist.   MAK: let alone a runner up?   DV: Yes   MAK: So you just went on to become the winner in 2013   DV: Yes totally surprised by that

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