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In 2022, Fourie was invited to be in residence at the David Krut Workshop in Maboneng to work at a larger scale than ever before. Using drawings made over over a period of time in a surprising and refreshing return to the foundational medium, she has been experimenting with translating these sketches into monumental mixed media artworks, combining acrylic paint with soft pastel marks. Heidi Fourie met up with Britt Lawton at the David Krut Projects Gallery and Bookstore to talk about her completed residency. Heidi shares insight on her overall experience and the amazing artistic growth and inspiration she acquired. Shifting mediums from oil painting to pastels and drawing pencils and working on a much larger scale are just some of the things Heidi has done differently. She also tells us how this experience has influenced her going forward, what she hopes to do next and how she worked on her soon to be released soft-ground editions with Kim-Lee Loggenberg. 

Find out the story behind 'Baby Yellow', a character created by artist Ryan Arenson, who goes on adventures, philosophises about the meaning of life, emotion and companionship, and enacts wild fantasies of the adult kind.     In this podcast, Ryan Arenson speaks to Melissa Waters about the character of Baby Yellow and where he came from, as well as artist books, e-publishing and self publishing, and his recent day spent in the David Krut Workshop. In his current exhibition at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, viewers can see the last 10 years of art-making by Arenson, most of which stems from his journey exploring the alter-ego Baby Yellow and Arenson's experience teaching and working with disabled adults. Ryan also speaks about destigmatising issues with mental health, a thread that can be seen in many of the exhibited works.David Krut Portal Online Viewing Room: https://davidkrutportal.com/ryan-arenson-baby-yellow/

In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, Britt Lawton interviews FORMS Gallery artist Khotso Motsoeneng about the series of prints that he created in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop. Listen to Khotso recount how he discovered the world of art by playing around with photography; and learn all about his intuitive use of layered texture and bright colours to express a sense of nostalgia and "finding home." Khotso Motsoeneng is a self-taught painter and printmaker whose training in photography developed his keen eye for colour and form. Motsoeneng's practice seeks out an abstract formal language which brings together his keen observation of nature and intuitive perspectives on the relationship between different colours and emotions. He is particularly inspired by woodgrain as a trace of natural processes, and looks to plant life as a metaphor for human development. Find out more here: https://forms.gallery/Khotso-Motsoeneng

This is the second episode in a series of three relating to a collaboration between David Krut Projects and FORMS Gallery, founded and directed by Anthea Buys. This collaboration is made of of 3 FORMS Gallery artists working in the David Krut Workshop in Arts on Main, producing unique works on paper for a physical exhibition hosted in David Krut Projects, Johannesburg in May 2022. In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, Britt Lawton interviews artist Adrian Fortuin about the series of prints that he created in collaboration with the FORMS Gallery and the David Krut Workshop.Learn about Fortuin's unconventional journey from soccer player to conceptual artist, the rich history behind the images he chooses for his prints, and why he chose the relatively uncommon cyanotype process for this series. For more on this exhibition and body of work, visit www.davidkrutportal.com

This is the first in a series of three episodes relating to a collaboration between David Krut Projects and FORMS Gallery, founded and directed by Anthea Buys. This collaboration is made of of 3 FORMS Gallery artists working in the David Krut Workshop in Arts on Main, producing unique works on paper for a physical exhibition hosted in David Krut Projects, Johannesburg in May 2022. In this episode, Britt Lawton interviews Lesotho-born artist Matty Monethi after her two week collaboration at our printmaking workshop. Matty reflects on her journey as an artist, her experience at the workshop and the influences and themes around her paintings. Matty Monethi was born in Maseru, Lesotho and grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied Fine Art at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town and continued her studies at the Wits School of Arts. Through painting, text and printmaking, she explores the human elements of space and memory. She uniquely captures the transient nature of time by letting her present circumstances and the relationship with her surroundings influence her work. Enamored by the qualities of collaboration, and ‘room to play and experiment,’ Matty has come to love the process of making prints and looks to expand in this discipline.  Listening time 19 minutes 50 seconds.

Learn more about artist Chad Cordeiro before he heads off to Abijan for an artists residency and exhibition with the Donwahi Foundation. Cordeiro has been working as a print technician at the David Krut Workshop since 2012. Together with Nathaniel Sheppard III  and Sbongiseni Khulu, Cordeiro co-founded Danger Gevaar Ingozi  (DGI) Studio in 2016 - a co-operative space for artistic research and collaboration, with a focus of print-based media. In this podcast, Chad Cordeiro speaks to Britt Lawton about his artistic practice, the value of printmaking, the importance of the archive or collected material as a source of inspiration, his love of music and its relationship to print, the entanglement of ideas and references, his upcoming solo exhibition and so much more... NotesChad Cordeiro artist page: https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/60632/chad-cordeiroChad Cordeiro & Nathaniel Sheppard III Collaborative work: https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/46885/cordeiro-sheppard-iiiDanger Gevaar Ingozi: https://www.instagram.com/dgi.studio/?hl=en'Under the infirmary, 2021': https://davidkrutprojects.com/artworks/60763/under-the-infirmaryContact info-jhb@davidkrut.com for all artwork inquiries. Podcast artwork features details from 'Under the infirmary, 2021' by Chad Cordeiro

In this special episode of the David Krut Podcast, David Krut called from the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in February 2022 to host a live interview with Uganda born artist Charlene Kumantale. Charlene was showing her work with AfriArt Gallery owned by Daudi Karungi - long term friend and collaborator of David Krut. Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She holds a BA in Animation from Limkokwing University, Malaysia. In her recent series-in-progress (some of which were included at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 2022) “Not Fragile” and “No Fake News”, Komuntale portrays women - mostly black African women. The subject matter is personal yet presented in a relatable way as inspiration is drawn from her own experiences but also informed by the experiences of other women around her. The heads of the women she portrays are covered by different elements, which create poetic yet striking narratives around a broadly relatable figure. At first sight, the works evoke a dreamy, peaceful, and quiet atmosphere, whereas at a closer look powerful, empowering and unapologetic messages come to the fore. Dominant, male-centered perspectives on women’s roles and supposedly nature-given capabilities and constraints attached to female bodies are being evaluated and re-examined. The juxtaposition of different elements creates an interesting asymmetry between awareness of self and the (male-centered) gaze of others. Intimacy, tenderness, vulnerability, and female beauty do not suggest fragility. Instead, it is related to strength and unapologetic confidence. Komuntale’s digital paintings deconstruct patriarchal narratives as shaped by culture, religion, and politics and provide a ground for inquiry and interrogation, and for visions of different futures. Her compositional choices create a space at the edges of reality – moments frozen in time and filled with surreal elements and metaphorical and symbolical references. Taken from https://afriartgallery.org/artists/charlene-komuntale

In this episode, Britt Lawton interviews Hemali Khoosal, a local, award winning Johannesburg artists. With the help of Printer Sarah Judge, Khoosal created a series of oil-based monotypes at the David Krut Workshop. These monotypes will form part of the upcoming monotype exhibition called "Alone of its Kind".In this podcast we hear all about Khoosal's journey into the artworld and how working with people form the golden thread in all of her multi-disciplinary works. Find out what Hemali Khoosal enjoyed about collaborating with the David Krut Workshop, and how she intermediated video art and monotype print.Find out more about Hemali on the David Krut Website links below: Alone of its Kind Group Exhibition - https://davidkrutprojects.com/exhibitions/62249/alone-of-its-kindGesturing Toward: Monotype collaboration with Hemali Khoosal - https://davidkrutprojects.com/62366/gesturing-toward-may-monotype-collaboration-with-hemali-khoosalHemali Khoosal - https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/62269/hemali-khoosal

Join host Britt Lawton and Serbian born artist Maja Maljević in this long overdue episode. The pair are in conversation about Maljević's artistic process, visual language and inspiration, the relationship between printmaking and painting, the artists experience with collaboration and overcoming challenges as a creative process. Maja also takes us through her process of creating brand new, larger than ever monotypes for the upcoming group exhibition "Alone of its Kind".Maja Maljević started collaborating with David Krut Workshop (DKW) in 2007, when she she began experimenting with printmaking as a way to expand her painting practice. Find out more about the artist here: https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/196/maja-maljevicVisit the online viewing room for the 2020 lockdown collaboration series - The '4-You Series': https://davidkrutportal.com/maja-maljevic-4u-series/ Maja Maljević: New Monochromatic Monoprints 2022: https://davidkrutprojects.com/62329/maja-maljevic-new-monochromatic-monoprints

In this episode, Britt Lawton gets to know more about Cape Town based artist Fanie Buys. Fanie produced a series of watercolour monotypes with the David Krut Workshop and Printer Roxy Kaczmarek ahead of a monotype group exhibition - Alone of its Kind - in Johannesburg, 2022.We find out how Fanie Buys became an artist, what his inspiration and practice entails, how he felt about the long distance collaborative project with the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, his reflections on painting in oil paint versus the watercolour monotype process and why he chose to do a series of portraits of Anna-Nicole Smith....For more information, visit the David Krut Website links below.Group Exhibition: Alone of its Kind - https://davidkrutprojects.com/exhibitions/62249/alone-of-its-kindWorkshop Blog: Watercolour Monotypes by Fanie Buys - https://davidkrutprojects.com/62453/watercolour-monotypes-by-fanie-buysArtist Profile and available artworks - https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/62266/fanie-buys

In this episode, artist, illustrator, and educator Maaike Bakker joined Britt Lawton at the David krut Workshop in Arts on Main. Maaike and Britt chat about her journey in the arts, her identity as an visual artist and illustrator, the importance of arts education, her artistic practice, the influence of music and album covers and her experience collaborating with the David Krut Workshop. MAAIKE BAKKER is visual artist and illustrator working with various drawing, sculpture and installation based mediums as well as digitally with regards to her illustration based work. Bakker’s practice explores limitations imposed by systems or structures and aims to determine at which point such structures may become excessive and irrelevant, ultimately exploring futility. Her work also sets out to introduce a variety of abstract visual languages that start infiltrating each other’s space, disrupting their original expression and developing an abstract dialogue, which takes on a sort of visual broken telephone. Besides creating her own work, Bakker also lectures illustration and is a practicing art curator. To find out more about Maaike Bakker in the workshop, read the blog: https://davidkrutprojects.com/61338/maaike-bakker-latest-dkw-collaborationThe David Krut Podcast is a production of David Krut Projects. Hosted and produced by Britt Lawton. 

In this episode multi-disciplinary artist Olivia Botha called from Cape Town to chat to Britt Lawton in a remote interview while awaiting her trip to Berlin for an upcoming residency. David Krut Projects and The Fourth collaborated to provide a space for Botha to continue working in anticipation of  a 2-month residency for artists from Africa in France, near Toulouse; followed by a 12-month fellowship with the renowned DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Botha discusses how she came to be involved in the arts, the influence of environment and community on her work, her love for poetry, how she has been affected by COVID travel restrictions, influences on her practice and her ongoing relationship with David Krut Projects. The work created during her time at THE FOURTH will be included in a solo exhibition titled CAUGHT – opening at 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Johannesburg on 14 August 2021. CAUGHT includes paintings and monotype prints completed by Botha at David Krut Projects over the last two years. Her paintings include dreamlike and monstrous figures that reflect a yearning for human connection. Visit the David Krut Portal to see Olivia Botha's online viewing room for CAUGHT: https://davidkrutportal.com/olivia-botha/

In June/July 2021, Cape Town-based artist Adele van Heerden spent a month in residency at the David Krut Workshop, making prints and completing works in other media that appear in her current exhibition at Lizamore & Associates Gallery in Fairlands. In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, Annabel Williams and Amé Bell sit down with Adele van Heerden to reflect on her residency at the David Krut Workshop. As an accomplished painter Adele considers the gestural freedom watercolour monotypes presented her in the workshop and compares her previous, limited experience in printmaking to her time spent alongside the very accomplished technicians and artists of the David Krut Workshop. Her time spent at the David Krut Workshop, situated at Arts on Main in Johannesburg's Maboneng Precinct suitably planted her in the centre of one of the world's most forested cities - from which she sought inspiration for her imagery. The body of work produced during her residency includes a series of water colour monotypes and intaglio prints (a first for Adele), which we look forward to sharing in due course.   Find out more on the David Krut Portal: https://davidkrutportal.com/adele-van-heerden/ Having studied curatorship at a graduate level allows Van Heerden to bring ideas from both of her undergraduate fields of study – fine arts and history/politics – together in her fine arts practice. After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2010, Van Heerden continued her studies at the University of South Africa, obtaining a BA in History and Politics. In 2015, she graduated from the University of Cape Town with an Honours Degree in Curatorship. - https://adelevanheerden.com/

In this instalment of the David Krut Podcast, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is in conversation with Mthabisi Sithole. Phillippa shares insight on her life’s story and how writing has given her access to voicing that story with the vigour and openness for which she is known.Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is a South African writer and performance artist. She is the voice of three poetry collections, Taller than Building (2006), The everyday wife (2010) and 2017s Ice Cream Headache in my Bone. In, 2014, she was commissioned to write and perform her poem, Courage – it takes more, at London’s Westminster Abbey.de Villiers’ work is published in journals and anthologies for short stories and poetry including the Margaret Busby edited New Daughters of Africa (2019), and Yellow means stay: An anthology of love stories from Africa (2020). Being a bi-racial trans-racial adoptee and having found out about her adoption at 20 years old, her poetry has often explored her complex relationship with racial identity. Her internationally acclaimed autobiographical one-woman play, Original Skin, explores her story and grapples with the writer’s identity in what she calls “a reckoning” with where she came from. Phillippa currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.For more information, contact books@davidkrut.comThe David Krut Podcast is a production of David Krut Projects.Available to purchase form the David Krut Bookstore:Ice Cream Headache in my Bone: https://www.davidkrutbookstores.com/books/ice-cream-headache-in-my-bone/New Daughters of Africa: https://www.davidkrutbookstores.com/books/new-daughters-of-africa/Other links:Courage - it takes more: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/courage-it-takes-more/Original Skin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjt9DBDrY1M&ab_channel=PhillippaYaadeVilliers

This episode is extracted from a conversation that took place between artists Gail Behrmann and Ricky Burnett at the David Krut Gallery on 15 May 2021.The pair discuss Gail's progression in her artistic practice from her self portrait of a tongue to her inspiration from Tang poetry, subjectivity and objectivity relating to painting, the influence of the Tang dynasty, the relationship between her work as an archivist, the inquiry into spirituality, the difference betwen abstract expressionism and abstract experiences and so much more...Find out more about Gail Behrmann's solo exhibition titled TOMORROW on the David Krut Portal: https://davidkrutportal.com/gail-behrmann-tomorrow/For more information, contact info-jhb@davidkrut.comThe David Krut Podcast is a production of David Krut Projects. Edited by Britt Lawton

In this episode, Stephen Carton-Barber spoke to Britt Lawton on his self-published book titled "African Game: Species & Subspecies." "The subspecies of today are the species of tomorrow." - Stephen Carton-Barber. Stephen speaks about his reference book on African game which contains sixty-three chapters, listing hundreds of species and subspecies of African game animals. The author gives detailed descriptions of each species. He also provides a historical and current distribution map. The book also shows the historical distribution of African animals, something very unique to this book. African Game: Species and Subspecies by Stephen Carton-Barber is now exclusively available from the David Krut Bookstore. https://www.davidkrutbookstores.com/

In this episode, artist and archivist Gail Behrmann chats to Britt Lawton ahead of her upcoming exhibition titled TOMORROW - opening at 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Johannesburg on 24 April 2021. Gail discusses her artistic practice including the love of painting, the inspiration from Tang poetry and the process behind her artist books. She also touches on her career as an archivist and researcher, her previous collaboration with David Krut Projects and of course the upcoming exhibition entitled TOMORROW. Contact info-jhb@davidkrut.com to request a catalogue of available artworks. Find out more about Gail on the David Krut Projects website. https://davidkrutprojects.com/exhibitions/60438/60438 The David Krut Podcast is a production of David Krut Projects. Episode hosted by Britt Lawton and edited by Kelvin Sithole.

In this episode, South African contemporary artist Anna van der Ploeg chats to Britt Lawton about her artistic process, her experience with artist residencies, the influence of environment and culture, her collaboration with the team at the David Krut Workshop, bee keeping and so much more... The David Krut Workshop (DKW) was excited to announce the arrival of contemporary artist Anna van der Ploeg for a short term residency at the David Krut Workshop in January 2021. Anna van der Ploeg works primarily in painting, printmaking and sculpture and is represented by galleries locally and abroad. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Japan, India and France and is currently working and studying in Berlin. Visit our website to find out more about Anna and her residency... https://davidkrutprojects.com/59565/artist-in-residence-anna-van-der-ploeg-january-2021

In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, artist Helena Uambembe speaks to Britt Lawton about her artistic practice; her interest in the archive; personal identity; language & working at the David Krut Workshop on a collaborative project in 2020. Helena is an interdisciplinary artist who currently uses printmaking, performance and photography to recreate and reposition her family history within the bigger context of the country’s history of both South Africa and Angola. Follow her on instagram @uambembe to see more.

Ame Bell and Britt Lawton from the David Krut Gallery team visited artist Heidi Fourie at her studio in Pretoria to view her latest paintings and catch up on the exciting things to come. In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, Pretoria based painter Heidi Fourie speaks to Britt Lawton about her artistic practice, her process of painting, the influence of lockdown on her creativity, working with the printmakers at the David Krut Workshop, her experience of printmaking and her upcoming solo exhibition at David Krut Projects in January 2021. To find out more about Fourie and her available artworks, visit her artist page on the website: https://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/45896/heidi-fourie