'Sketch Assembly'
Andrew Putter and Various Participants at The University of Cape Town’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA)'Sketch Assembly' is a new educational project designed by Andrew Putter which focuses on what artists rarely exhibit: the tests, versions and sketches made on the way towards producing finished products. In this new project in the 'Hottentots Holland' cycle, Putter and a group of 30 young artists and designers – called the 'Sketch Assembly' - spent four months playfully re-imagining early contacts between ‘Hottentot’ and Dutch youth at the Cape in the 1600s. No final products were made: only increasingly ambitious sketches, often in the form of elaborately staged photographs. The 'Sketch Assembly’s' work is carefully based on Dutch merry company prints and paintings from the 1600s, and on the few, rare drawings of the Cape Khoikhoin (‘Hottentots’) that still exist today. The exhibition shows the many sketches and exploratory processes made by the group, including photographs, drawings, diagrams, costumes, and props.
Artists and designers included: Paul Ward, Swain Hoogervorst, Penny Youngleson, Angela Nemov, Katryn Beaurain, Jen Bam, Leigh Bishop, Anine Kirsten, Jeanne Fourie, Claudio Massenz, Christiaan Conradie, Warren Papier, Karin Williams, Noël Platts, Claire Watling, Pieter Janse van Rensburg, Alessandro Betti, Morne Visagie, Mbongeni Dlamini, Andrew McNally, Leah Hawker, Inge Jansen, Jody Paulsen, Mikkie-dene Le Roux, Melissa Haiden, Joshua McLean, Dylanne Powell, Chad Petersen, and Seemaa Allie.
Open only Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 October at the Michaelis Gallery
20 October - 21 October
