Get On Board!
The Wavescape Artboard Auction takes place tonight, and a huge crowd has booked for a night of ocean charity and comedy. See you there!
This year’s team of artists is spearheaded by veteran Bretty Murray, who once again uses his acerbic wit as a cultural weapon with his board inscribed KLEPTOCRATS: defined as a “rulers who use their power to steal their country's resources”. We all know what that refers to.
Murray’s work is complemented by a board designed, shaped and decorated by alternative art guru Anton Butler; and the inimitable Stefan Smit, who is hot off his work for the inaugural Pangeaseed Foundation’s Sea Walls Mural Project. Smit is joined by a former Wavescape Artboard artist back in the 2000s, Toya (Motel 7), who also created building-sized Sea Walls murals around Cape Town (directed by Wavescape Festival Manager Shani Judes). Joining them is ocean lover and adventurer Jero Revett, who uses the sea as his muse to create artworks that deploy Gyotaku, Cyanotype and Woodcut techniques.
We think you'll agree, these are some pretty amazing works of art.
Sulette van der Merwe’s Artboard explores intuitive connections between symbolism, with a strong influence of pop art, surrealism and digital culture, while MJ Lourens, a Fine Art Sculpture graduate plays at the intersection between paintings, sculptures and film. Another artist at Wavescape is Hakopike (Amy-Leigh Braaf), who explores the complexities of love through her art - drawing inspiration from the nation's biodiversity, and her ancestral history.
Born in Mamelodi, Kabelo Moraloki works with portraiture and abstract art characterised by bold and bright colours, intricate patterns and Tetris blocks. He is joined by co-founder of the Cape Town institution Moonlight Mass, Elad Kirshenbaum aka One, a qualified architect who uses spray paint and markers used in graffiti and tagging to produce layers and patterns that converge into what he calls Architectural Abstract.
The auction of this rich variety of styles, techniques, and artists takes place at Jack Black’s Taproom on Wednesday 6 March, and will be mc’d by auctioneer and comedian Nik Rabinowitz.
Check the catalogue HERE !
