We are pleased to welcome Jacki Mc Innes to the David Krut writing page. Mc Innes is an artist and freelance writer, here follows a biography in her own words:
“After five years of training in the fields of radiography and radiotherapy, the only thing I had really learnt was that I had made a particularly [...]

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Prominent South African sculptor Wilma Cruise is well known for her life-size ceramic sculptures of the human form. In the past year however she has embarked on an experimental foray into the medium of print under the tutelage of Jill Ross at the David Krut Arts Resource in Johannesburg. The results of her venture were [...]

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Young South African sculptor Sean Slemon completed a Fine Arts degree at the Michaelis School of Art, UCT a few years ago and is currently in New York where he is completing a Masters Degree at the Pratt Institute. Whilst on a short mid-year visit in June, he took time out to present the exhibition [...]

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2 December 2002
John, Themba and I camp on the Masokasapan Airstrip near Punda Maria in the Kruger National Park. We share our camp site with 600 others. We are here, like our fellow travelers, to observe the total eclipse of the sun on 4th. It is a hot and desolate place. The runway is in [...]

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Amy Miller developed her love for art and its history under the guidance of a particularly influential high school teacher and later in her personal pilgrimage to the galleries of London, Paris and Florence. A third year student at the University of Cape Town, she is majoring in English, Visual & Art History, and Classics. [...]

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I am currently a lecturer in Classics (Greek, Latin and Classical Civilization) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg.
I am interested in the relevance of the study of ancient European cultures to South African students and explore the similarities and differences between aspects of ancient Greek and Roman and traditional African cultures (e.g. Zulu culture). [...]

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The winners of a national writing competition run by Standard Bank, in collaboration with David Krut Publishing and the Mail and Guardian, have been selected.Writers entering the competition were invited to consider some of the issues raised by the Picasso and Africa exhibition that ran earlier this year at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg [...]

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Justin Fox, renowned travel-writer and lecturer at UCT will be posting general notes and useful hints for those aspiring writers among us.
We thank Justin for his long distance tutelage, which no doubt will be most enlightening.
Justin Fox is a travel writer and photographer specialising in Africa and the Indian Ocean. A Rhodes scholar and a [...]

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By Justin Fox
Firstly, as background, I’d like to talk a little bit about the many forms of travel writing that swamp our bookshops. It’s a slippery genre that can take in anything from a wish-you-were-here postcard to the Bible. At the ‘hard end’ you get travel guides such as Lonely Planet, Fodor or the Rough [...]

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