November 13th, 2009 - amandam -
Gregor Jenkin produces good-looking furniture. As a designer, he uses unexpected materials – or perhaps just regular materials in unexpected ways.
It may have something to do with his background which is best described as eclectically cohesive. After studying industrial engineering and architecture, Gregor worked as a prop maker for Ralph Lauren in London. His designs bring together these experiences, resulting in pieces that are as structurally impressive and precise as they are quirky and tongue-in-cheek.
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November 2nd, 2009 - amandam -
Heath Nash creates beautiful objects out of simple materials. He’s a creative with a practical bent, an ideas man who is also good with his hands. His designs are complex, colourful, joyful celebrations of what it means to be South African.
Heath draws from local craft materials (paper, plastic, wire) and traditional crafting techniques (binding, weaving) – but steers clear of knit-your-own-muesli, rustic kitsch. Instead his pieces are beautiful, sophisticated feats of design and form. His Die Cuts pleated lampshade, for instance, is deceptively simple – origami at its most accessible – while Strength in Numbers’ modular structures are about forming stronger and more functional wholes by binding wire together.
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August 27th, 2009 - amandam -
Three can be a tricky number in a relationship. And when you’re looking at three creative, passionate people, it can sound a lot like the countdown to an explosion. But for Avant Car Guard, the Awesome Threesome from Johannesburg, it’s been as easy as one, two…
Avant Car Guard is a conceptual art collective made up of three talented artists in their own rights: Zander Blom, Michael McGarry and Jan-Henri Booyens. They produce large-scale paintings, sculptures, editioned prints, video and installation, and are on a mission to “undermine and interrogate the mechanics that drive the art world.”
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