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City Hall. See p15. This new gallery shop is the brainchild of designer Charlene Walton, who runs the Cuie&Co. studio alongside her ‘love project’, Blank Space. ‘Our collaborators include local creatives as well as people from abroad,’ she says. ‘It’s basically a platform for artists to showcase their work.’ The stock includes limited edition prints, cards, wrapping paper and Walton’s own line of old-fashioned, indented stationery – anything that catches her design-savvy eye.
Brundyn + Gonsalves
jurie senekal
71 Loop Street, City Centre (021 424 5150/www.brundyngonsalves. com). Open 10am-3pm Tue-Thur; 10am-2pm Sat; by appointment Mon & Fri. Credit AmEx, MC, V. P5 Previously run as iArt, this gallery’s large space on Loop Street runs various exhibitions simultaneously. It focuses on South African contemporary art, and recent shows have included Stephen Erasmus’s Heartland, which explored Afrikaner identity through maps and landscapes made from Afrikaans texts. The gallery represents a dozen artists, including Paul Emsley, who has painted Nelson Mandela and won the BP Portrait Award. Showing work from ceramics to engravings, found art to photography, it showcases the country’s best creative talents.
The Cape Gallery
60 Church Street, City Centre (021 423 5309/ www.capegallery. co.za). Open 9.30am-5pm Mon-Fri; 10am-2pm Sat. Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V. P11
This Church Street gallery specialis- Erdmann Contemporary es in South African art from wildlife & the Photographer’s scenes to social commentary, Cape Gallery ZA landscapes to botanical studies. Ro- 63 Shortmarket Street, City tating themed exhibitions take place Centre (021 422 2762/www. in the back room, while the work in erdmanncontemporary.co.za). the front includes Peter Gray’s close Open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri; 11amobservations of lions. Impression- 2pm Sat. Credit AmEx, DC, MC, ism and Post-Impressionism are the V. P2 dominant styles on the walls, and Heidi Erdmann moved her galceramics, prints, sustainable lery from Kloof Street to African art and sculpits current position in ture are also sold. 2004. The inauguShowing flamingos, ral exhibition in Africans in tradithe new space, w tional dress and Nicola Grobler’s cool ne a is 1 d rhinos kicking up The Enigma ne an Commu heck out solo ws dust, the collecMachine, set c spot to xhibitions. Sho ix tion depicts the the tone with s e ry p e u v e country’s many its jumble of gro around t/ faces. skewed domestic change 4 Wale Stree ). objects. The gal(6 . m s o k e .c e 1 w mmune lery hosts local and EDGE Glass www.co international exhibiGallery tions of cutting-edge 29 Vredenburg Lane, art and photography, which City Centre (021 423 have recently included Italian artist 3370/www.capeglassstudio.com). Marilena Vita’s photos of ambiguOpen 10am-5pm Tue-Fri; Sat by ous moments. Erdmann represents appointment. Credit MC, V. P6 On a lane off Long Street are the local artists and photographers inCape Glass Studio, where founder cluding Karlien de Villiers, known Nelius Britz works with fellow for her graphic novels and female glass artists, and the EDGE Glass figures. Gallery. The gallery displays the best contemporary South African G2 Art art glass and renowned imported 61 Shortmarket Street, City Centre works from Europe and beyond. (021 424 7169/www.g2art.co.za). The pieces on display are fascinat- Open 10am-4.30pm Mon-Fri; 10aming – it’s extraordinary how malle- 2pm Sat. Credit MC, V. P2 able the material is. Angular, jut- G2 displays contemporary works ting forms glint alongside pieces by mostly South African artists evoking coral reefs, space ships in its exhibition space, including and the Emerald City. paintings, ceramics, sculpture and
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