Extracts from an interview with Virginia MacKenny by Sam Alex

Sam Alex
In the exhibition ‘Crossing’ there is an image that recurs – that of a plane which appears to be sitting on water with passengers on its wings. Is that a fictive image?
Virginia Mackenny
No, very few of my images are fictive. Most of them [...]

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Virginia MacKenny’s show Crossing opened on 29 October at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg. The exhbition was opened by Wits Professor and fellow artist, Jeremy Wafer and on the 31st,  MacKenny hosted a walk-about at which she spoke about her motivations, techniques and subject matter.

Crossing will run until 25 November 2009. For further information on the [...]

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David Krut Projects is delighted to present Virginia MacKenny—Crossing
29 October
18h00 for 18h30
The exhibition will be opened by Prof. Jeremy Wafer
The works in this exhibition invite unusual visual associations across their rich terrain, making surprising connections between high-end technology and the makeshift.
Dominated by colour fields of blue, the paintings offer a fluid terrain on which large [...]

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Foam Along the Waterline is a catalogue published to accompany Virginia MacKenny’s solo exhibition of paintings and etchings at the University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum in September/October 2008.
Virginia MacKenny is a practicing artist, writer and educator, who is Senior Lecturer in Painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. Foam [...]

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Virginia MacKenny’s solo exhibition, Foam Along the Waterline, opened at the Irma Stern Gallery in Cape Town on Tuesday 23 September 2008.

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– Virginia MacKenny; ‘Artworks in Progress’; Michaelis School of Fine Arts journal; 2006, University of Cape Town

Not for Data (2005) oil on canvas, 12-panel polyptych (each panel 700×700mm)
Surfacing – Levels of Flatness
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In Margaret Attwood’s ‘Surfacing’ the main protagonist plumbs the depths of her own being, and at the end of the novel, returning from [...]

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Free Fall, 2008, oil on acrylic on canvas, 2 x 1.6m
With her solo exhibition to open at the Irma Stern Gallery in Cape Town next week (23 September 2008), I took the opportunity to speak to Virginia MacKenny about many things, including her most recent body of work.

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