Kim Sacks Gallery requests the pleasure of your company at the opening of TRAVERSING An exhibition of ceramics by three women who have a creative connection to Denmark. EXHIBITING ARTISTS Clementina van der Walt – Priscilla Mouritzen - Kim Sacks OPENING: Saturday 15th September 2012 - 10am to 5pm PREVIEW: Friday 14th September 2012 - 10am to 5pm The exhibition will close Monday 8th October 2012. Clementina, Priscilla and Kim will conduct a walk-about and a discussion at 2.30pm on the day of the opening. Refreshments will be served. TEL: 011 447 5804 MOBILE: 083 377 9076 WEBSITE: www.kimsacks.com EMAIL: kim@kimsacksgallery.com ADDRESS: 153 Jan Smuts Avenue - Parkwood - Johannesburg GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm - Saturday 10am to 5 pm - Sunday 10am to 2pm And any other time by appointment – and with great pleasure! Secure parking on the Property

CELEBRATING SPRING

Today

By Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,

so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw

open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,

indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths

and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight

that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight

on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants

from their snow-covered cottage

so they could walk out,

holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,

well, today is just that kind of day.

ZIG ZAGS OF FIRE

A batch of my 'zig zag' vases which are for a client in the US.

LONGING FOR SPRING!(IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE)

Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings

III

Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

POSING AT OUR OPEN DAY

  
Inspired by Edmund de Waal’s ‘HAREWITH AMBER EYES’  I started thinking about the social and family history around his collection of Japanese netsuke. I decided to take a lighter note and make some slightly mad ‘alien’ creatures that are miniature, and can be fun items on a dinner table or even in a printer’s tray to reflect  back on the 70’s!
Hence the name 'Clemsuke' who are posing here with other 'alien' creatures made by Peta  Becker of Projekt 
In addition, I extended the miniature range to some sitting cats....

GEARING UP FOR OUR OPEN DAY

We are busy furiously cleaning and clearing the studio, painting, last minute firings...all very excited about our open studio day happening this Saturday at 501 Tollgate Industrial Centre, 12 Ravenscraig Road, Woodstock. If you are in Cape Town, please do come and share a glass of gluhwein with us!

SOUTHERN GUILD EXHIBITION

The above sweet stand is my exhibit for the exciting Southern Guild 2012 exhibition which is opening on 3rd August at the Everard Read Gallery, 6 Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, closes on the 9th September. If you happen to be in Johannesburg, this is a show not  to be missed!