Winter
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The simple philosophy that coalesced Doctor Jan van der Merwe’s teaching methodology for more than three decades at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Faculty of Arts and Design, encouraged artists to work from their original vision, to speak from the heart and not to be swayed by trends or what the art world deemed popular.
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Despite the change in the ensembled artists in the present exhibition, in both Textured surfaces and Pieces and the world they inhabit exhibitions, both exhibitions give us the same insight into the nature of practices that these artists are engaged in. The difference is that the curator has elected to focus on close colleagues that…
