Ever since Senzo started working in residence at DKW this year, we have enjoyed watching his talent develop and blossom. In a conversation, not so long ago, he recalled his very first experience as an artist when he was only in standard 4. His school in Mpumalanga did not offer art as a subject and [...]

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Senzo Shabangu was born in Driefontein, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He came to Johannesburg at the beginning of 2006 to become a pilot. Instead he ended up studying printmaking at the Artist Proof Studios in Newtown. Shabangu is a firm believer in community work. Among many other projects he has donated work to the Keleketla auction [...]

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Exhibition of landscape prints and photographs at Workshop Gallery, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. (above: Bruce Backhouse, Karoo Horizon XII, 2011, Monotype, Ed. 1/1.) Workshop Gallery, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, is pleased to present its third exhibition: e-SCAPES is an exhibition of landscape works in various media drawn from both the David Krut Print Workshop archive [...]

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Stephen Hobbs has been spending time at David Krut Print Workshop, Arts on Main, working on two new editions. These prints are planned to be released mid 2011.

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William Kentridge, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky were at DKW at Arts on Main, in February 2011 to handpaint and sign their collaborative prints that were started in 2009. Jillian Ross, at the AOM DKW only recently has been able to print them and as Shakinovsky and Gavronsky are in South Africa for the next [...]

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William Kentridge, Rose Shavinovsky and Claire Gavronsky were visiting DKP at Arts on Main to handpaint and sign some of their collaboration prints. The image was started in February 2009 when Rosenclaire were the artists in residence at Nirox. The three artists were discussing art and each of them drew a self-portrait onto the copper [...]

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Deborah Bell created this etching in March 2010. At the time she was working at 107 Workshop, in the UK with master printer Jack Shirreff, on prints such as Coeur Rage and Bride Stripped Bare for her upcoming show at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. When she heard the news that her close friend and [...]

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This image was printed this year at DKW, Arts on Main. The Scribe print came from William Kentridge’s work on the project he did for the Louvre last year, Carnets d’Egypte (Egyptian Sketchbooks). For this exhibition, Kentridge made 16 short films that were shown in the Egyptian Collection wing of the Louvre. Some of the [...]

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Artist Bruce Backhouse returned to the David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) Parkwood to further his collaboration with printers Niall Bingham and M.C. Roodt. In his previous visit to DKW Backhouse had created a series of reductive monotype landscapes, heavy in painterly marks, entitled Karoo Horizons. During this brief return to the Workshop an engraved copper [...]

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This last weekend marked the first of a weekly monotype project I am working on at the David Krut workshop at Arts on Main. The idea is to have the workshop open and in use over the weekend so that people visiting the centre can see artists and printers at work to have a better [...]

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