For the past six months I have tried to clear my mind artistic clutter. I have a Fine Arts degree from the University of Pretoria and after finishing my studies I worked for a large corporation as well as as a freelance artist. Fully satisfied that I no longer harbour any of the clutter enforced by formal education, I decided to join the DK Arts team.

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Solomon’s Trip to New York Solomon, the Co-ordinator of our Taxi Art Education Programme, went to New York City for two weeks in July to attend his brother’s wedding in Philadelphia and also to make new friendships that could result in working relationships in line with our TAEP endeavours. He had the opportunity to see [...]

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A warm welcome to Carla Hyland who joins the ever expanding David Krut team! Based in Cape Town she will be assisting Alastair Whitton, manager of David Krut Publishing: Fine Art and Books, which opened in January at the Montebello Design Centre in Newlands. Response to the Cape Town project space and bookstore has been [...]

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Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston are Cannonball Press. They will be in Johannesburg for a collaboration with David Krut Projects and Oppikoppi Productions culminating in an exhibition in our project space. During their stay, DKW will be hosting a workshop on woodblock printing with Cannonball and resident printmakers Jillian Ross, Niall Bingham and Mlungisi Kongisa.

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I have just returned home from what seemed like a fleeting three-week visit to our project space in New York. David Krut Projects is fearlessly situated amongst three hundred other galleries in Chelsea on the Lower West side, just a few minutes walk from the elegant Hudson River.

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The TAEP outreach team tells us the reason why they are involved in promoting art in the community. The team is made up of young and dynamic individuals who have big ideas and relentless energy when it comes to uplifting their communities.

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The featured artist at this month’s Upgrade! at Wits Digital Arts was André SC (André S Clements), a new media manipulator and self-confessed “pixel maniac” who has recently begun exploring an approach to image processng which he calls “post-digital abstraction".

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The reality-tv competition ‘Strictly come Dancing’ features Grethe teamed up with Harold van Buuren, the internationally acclaimed choreographer and champion dancer. The highlight of last week’s performance was arguable Grethe’s perfectly executed split during Rumba. Strictly come Dancing is broadcast live on SABC 2 at 8pm Saturday evenings until 23 September. Support Grethe by SMS-ing [...]

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Grethe Fox has worked as a leading actress in over 60 theatre productions, 10 television dramas, 18 television series and 9 feature films. Grethe has starred in many productions directed by Marthinus Basson, including Madonna; in Breyten Breytenbach’s first play, Boklied; Masha in Reza de Wet’s Drie Susters Twee; and most recently in Die Goue [...]

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Alastair Whitton works as a representative for David Krut in Cape Town. He graduated in 1994 from the Natal Technikon School of Fine Art in Durban where he was awarded the Emma Smith Overseas Scholarship. He was a Volkskas atelier merit award winner in 1994 and in 1995 following a three-month informal educational visit to [...]

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