David Krut Cape Town is happy to announce a new addition to the team. A graduate of Rhodes University, Jacqueline Nurse studied Literature and Art History & Visual Culture, specialising in contemporary literary theory. After a brief (and creatively void) foray into other industries, she is delighted to again be part of something about which she [...]

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Theo Sonnekus obtained a BA (Languages) Journalism and a BA (Hons): Visual Studies (cum laude) at the University of Pretoria in 2006 and 2007 consecutively. He is currently furthering his postgraduate studies at the University of Pretoria, undertaking a MA: Visual Studies on the topic of ‘Invisible queers: investigating the ‘other’ Other in gay visual [...]

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Saturday’s opening of Floating and Falling, the latest exhibition of works by Bronwen Findlay was a great success.

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What has been interesting in the last period at DKW is the range of techniques used by artists working there. From monotype, to etching, pochoir, lino and wood engraving, each artist had the chance to experiment with their technique(s) of choice. The resultant work is a testament to the diverse nature and collaborative environment of the workshop.

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David Krut Publishing is pleased to announce the release of a Compendium of TAXI Art Books Educational Supplements, which accompanies the TAXI Art Books series of publications on contemporary South African artists, but is also a stand-alone book for the classroom.

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David Krut Publishing: Fine Art and Books held a solo exhibition of works by Mathew Brittan during the month of May. Brittan describes his works as dealing with mythological elements and being by the tenets of Anthroposophy, a worldview propagated by Rudolf Steiner that influenced artists such as Kandinsky and Beuys in the twentieth [...]

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In orthodox circumstances an artist will mix carborundum* grit with a PVA wall-paint before painting it onto the surface of the copper. An artist such as Wilma Cruise has used carborundum in the orthodox way, as in “Harrismith”. Slemon proved to the printers at DKW that there can be variations to this approach.
Slemon [...]

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(above) Victor varnishing out areas of the plate that are not to be etched. The varnish protects areas of the plate from the acid.

(above) Victor placing a variety of textured materials (eg. newsprint, tinfoil, cheese cloth, canvas) on top of the soft ground, to be run through the press. Once the plate and the materials [...]

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Bruce Backhouse expanded his style through experimentation with the incorporation of frames into the print itself, and the use of turpentine mixed with ink to achieve an effect reminiscent of watercolours.
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Bruce Backhouse
(above) Distant Couple at the Great Camdeboo Ball II, 2008
Monotype 1/1
Collaborator and Printer: Niall Bingham
Gallery
At DKW

David Koloane has experimented with wax [...]

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Ryan Arenson, at the Workshop, experimenting for the first-time with the pochoir printing technique. Pochoir - French for ’stencilling’ - is a class of print which is usually made by carefully hand-colouring through a series of highly detailed cut-out stencils, leaving a raised area on the picture surface, further [...]

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