Dave Southwood

N1 and Beach Boys 2014, Exhibition Invitation,

N1 2012, Exhibition Invitation,

Taxidermist, Graaff-Reinet, September 2011 2011, Inkjet print on Innova fibre paper,

Black and Decker, from Milnerton Market series 2003, photograph,

They always looked for money 2004, Photograph,

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'N1'

Dave Southwood at Whatiftheworld / Gallery

David Southwood's 'N1' project originated in 2007 and uses the National Road One as an alibi for photographing a series of events, personalities and traces of habitation encountered while traveling between Cape Town and Beit Bridge on the border of Zimbabwe in the North.

Although the N1 is fraught with political, social and historical associations ‘The Road’ is delivered in a very spare and controlled fashion which tends to avoid the spectacular or obvious. The effect of the works is cumulative and the pervasive atmosphere is disconcerting because the photographs present this essentially mute piece of civil engineering as an awkward, often empty, public stage.The exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition hardcover publication .

08 March 2012 - 22 April 2012

'N1 and Beach Boys’

Dave Southwood at University Art Gallery

The University Art Gallery will open the 2014-2015 exhibition season with ‘David Southwood: N1 and Beach Boys’, an exhibition that brings together two connected bodies of work by the internationally acclaimed South African artist: ‘The N1 (National Road One) ‘project, and ‘Beach Boys’. ‘N1’ profiles the longest freeway in South Africa, the road that connects country’s two largest cities, Cape Town and Johannesburg. ‘Beach Boys’ documents the lives of a group of Tanzanian stowaways who live amongst the N1 infrastructure in Cape Town. Both projects combine photography with social commitment, and both explore transitional, interstitial places and the question of what it takes to make a ‘place.’

05 September 2014 - 12 October 2014

'Milnerton Market'

Dave Southwood at AVA

For the last decade Dave Southwood has been observing and participating in the Milnerton flea market. His body of over one hundred images, and the forthcoming book publication with commissioned essays by Michael Godby, Ivor Powell and Ivan Vladislavic, will both be presented for the first time in November 2010 at the AVA gallery.

Exhibition to be opened by Sean O'Connor (farmer)

15 November 2010 - 10 December 2010