WALKABOUT OF 'TABLESCAPES'

I will be hosting a walkabout of my exhibition 'Tablescapes' on Saturday 12 December at 11am. Please come along if you are in Cape Town next weekend...

The UCT Irma Stern Museum, Cecil Road, Rosebank.

R20 donation for Irma Stern Museum educational fund
Refreshments will be served
RSVP clementina@mweb.co.za

Tablescapes | House and Leisure

Tablescapes | House and Leisure

tablescapes

A ceramic exhibition by Clementina van der Walt…

This month, Clementina van der Walt exhibits her tableware at the UCT Irma Stern Museum in an exhibition titled: Tablescapes: ceramics, still life and the turning world.
We’ve previously featured Van der Walt’s bespoke tableware and their function as useable art. Now visitors to the exhibition, which opened earlier this month, will be able to admire her ceramics for what they really are – tabletop masterpieces.
‘I wanted to focus on the arrangement of domestic objects in a way that gives significance to and emphasis on the daily interaction of what we admire and use in order to nourish ourselves in our everyday lives (both physically and philosophically,’ says Van der Walt. ‘The intention is to present an intimate world where time is suspended in the form of shapes, colours and textures, reclaiming the space of the personal in this mad external world we live in.’
Ceramics on display are mainly utilitarian – plates, bowls, cups and vases – but not necessarily sets. The tableware is presented on various tables on loan from Design Afrika, Ebony and Lutge Gallery in several rooms of the gallery at the Irma Stern Museum. The domestic nature of the architecture of the museum – the former home of the museum’s namesake – enhances the theme of the exhibition.
Table figurines and found objects, such as rocks and animal skulls, have also been included to complement each of the tablescapes. ’Themed groups of objects which tell a story will be displayed on a particular table chosen for an aesthetic that relates to the group of ceramics,’ says Van der Walt.
One of the highlights of the exhibition is a display of plates depicting still life images inspired by the paintings of Irma Stern.
In addition to the tablescapes setup throughout the museum, there are several wall panels which continue the still life theme in a two-dimensional format.
The exhibition runs until 19 January, 2013, at the UCT Irma Stern Museum, Cecil Road, Rosebank, Cape Town. For more information visit irmastern.co.za.

TABLESCAPES

 You are invited to

TABLESCAPES

ceramics, still life and the turning world

An exhibition by
Clementina van der Walt

 To be opened by Wilma Cruise

at 11am

on Saturday 8th December 2012

Exhibition ends 19th January 2013

The UCT Irma Stern Museum


Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10h00 - 17h00, Saturday 10h00 - 14h00
 Entrance  Adults @ R10 -  Pensioners & Learners @ R5

Cecil Road, Rosebank
Tel: +27(0)21 685 5686
www.irmastern.co.za

Tables kindly on loan from Design Afrika, Ebony, Lutge Gallery

www.clementina.co.za
 

INSPIRED BY QUNCI

Hennie Meyer has produced an incredibly slick and professional exhibition inspired by his commission project earlier this year at Qunci Villas in Lombok, Indonesia. Do visit this exhibition at the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville on until 20 December 2012 and view superb installations of modular shapes, forming composite sculptural pieces. There is also a publication which was launched at the opening event, a wonderful documentation of this extraordinary project.

AFRICA ADORNED AND MORE

So many events happening this week and next....This weekend is Africa Adorned  2012 - Thursday evening, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Design Afrika, 42 Hares Ave, off Main Road, Woodstock. Tel. 021 448 9761. An exhibition celebrating AFRICAN CREATIVITY


Then there is a group show opening on Sat 1st December at The Pottershop in Kalk Bay

 

Ceramics South Africa Western Cape is hosting their regional exhibition at The Great Cellar at The Alphen Hotel in Constantia until the 8th of December

To market to market to buy a fine pot...

Above: some of my work for the Potters Market

This Saturday 17th November at Rondebosch Park, Rondebosch,  Cape Town from 8am-2pm.
Ceramics SA hosts The Potters Market where you can see and purchase a vast range of ceramics from the brilliant to the mediocre to the really dreadful, all made by a diverse group of potters...

KAROO - SKULLS AND BOWLS

I have recently been spending much time in the Klein Karoo, where the above skulls originate from. I have been somewhat inspired by the landscape there, and hence my 'Karoo Tablescape' which will form part of an exhibition I am having at The UCT Irma Stern Museum in December. Watch this space for more details...