Interview by Unathi Mkonto
Paul Edmunds exhibited his latest collection, ‘Tone’, at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town. JRNL Art intern Unathi Mkonto met him in his studio.
“There is wonderful phrase that I came across: “Accumulated gestures”. I think when people look at something with accumulated gestures, they have a bodily sense of time and concentration that went into it, whether it is a drawing or a three dimensional sculpture.”
interview by Nico Krijno for JRNL
Stefan Krynauw is currently exhibiting his collection, ‘A Portrait of a Painter’ at the Rooke Gallery in Johannesburg. His brother Nico Krijno - a photographer and director - interviewed Stefan about the work, his artistic process and painting in isolation.
“I was lonely and depressed during the process. It channelled through to the work. I regret destroying so many works. Being isolated definitely had an influence on it. I wanted to find different ways of portraying emotion.”
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