Renowned local artist Andile Dyalvane has kindly joined forces to help support the Pride of Cape Town, the public arts event set to launch at the V & A Waterfront this month. All proceeds will benefit international wildlife charity the Born Free Foundation.
Motorists, residents and even officials are baffled as to how a hooded figure in a green boat landed up on the Black River.
Eight artists are exhibiting artworks that inspire dialogue about the environment, at this year's Green Expo in Cape Town.
The Landmark Foundation is currently hosting an art exhibition at the Grahamstown Arts Festival. A life-sized leopard is on display, which was crafted by some talented young students out of gin traps and scrap metal. Other artists have also donated works for raising awareness and funds for leopard conservation.
I was walking in the mall with my son who noticed all the Christmas trees when I realized that I do not know why we have Christmas trees.
Artwork created by our very own Cape Town youth was put up on exhibition on the 8th September at the Grand in Granger Bay. The young men whose work was exhibited are all participants in Mamelani's Youth Development Programme, Project Lungisela, which prepares young people for the transition out of state care, particularly children's homes.
In an attempt to get the youth more involved and interested in the field of waste management the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) invited the learners from two schools to attend the WasteCon 2010 exhibition in Johannesburg and charged them 'an article made out of waste materials' each to enter.
Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim.
I know the man only as Jerry, yet I trust him enough to take me deep into Kayamandi, where he lives in a small house with three tiny rooms. I am reminded that I'm a child from the bushveld, a tourist looking around in awe at a world that I don't get exposed to enough. Around every corner I see something new and I absorb it metre for metre. 'Jerry I don't want to sound ignorant, but please don't take me anywhere that they'll steal my boss's car,' I say jokingly. Jerry laughs and says I shouldn't worry so much. After a few twists and turns on the brown waste-covered road I am somehow more at ease.
Outdoor Site_Specific Art (or Land Art) combines natural elements like landscaping, permanently sculptured elements, rocks, sticks, soil and plants to create artworks which heighten and challenge appreciation of the beauty of our natural surroundings. Although in time the artworks will be reclaimed by the environment, traces remain to challenge the interpretation and enjoyment of the site and to highlight man's transitory role in nature.
This year's Design Indaba from 25 to 27 February saw an unusual and thought provoking exhibition by contemporary artist Kai Lossgott. He focuses on exploring green politics and systems theory throught the mediums of performance, peotry, motion images and drawing.
Selected as one of three artists presenting their work on the Absa stand, his exhibit showcased his engravings in plant leaves, as well as experimental films and prints.
Artists are much in demand to communicate critical environmental information straight to the gut and help facilitate the much needed awareness in our society. The final year art students at Stellenbosch University received an assignment this year to do a sustainability project.
Corné Edwards het 'n obsessie met lap. In haar werk as grafiese kunstenaar en modeontwerper is sy egter nie net gepla met die patroontjies op die lap nie. Sy gee ook om waar dit vandaan kom. Mari Beukes het met haar gaan gesels oor haar omgewingsvriendelike klerereeks en die idee dat klere nie net hergebruik nie, maar ook herwin kan word.
Die lig stroom wit deur Corné Edwards se woonstelvensters. Dit weerkaats oor die leë vloer se houtpatrone en teken 'n blink randjie om haar gesig en kort geknipte swart hare. Waar sy in die hoek van die vertrek sit, lyk sy amper te fyn en te weerloos mooi om alleen in so 'n groot, oop ruimte te woon ' soos 'n skoenlapper alleen in 'n groot glasfles.
Corné Edwards het 'n obsessie met lap. In haar werk as grafiese kunstenaar en modeontwerper is sy egter nie net gepla met die patroontjies op die lap nie. Sy gee ook om waar dit vandaan kom. Mari Beukes het met haar gaan gesels oor haar omgewingsvriendelike klerereeks en die idee dat klere nie net hergebruik nie, maar ook herwin kan word.
Die lig stroom wit deur Corné Edwards se woonstelvensters. Dit weerkaats oor die leë vloer se houtpatrone en teken 'n blink randjie om haar gesig en kort geknipte swart hare. Waar sy in die hoek van die vertrek sit, lyk sy amper te fyn en te weerloos mooi om alleen in so 'n groot, oop ruimte te woon ' soos 'n skoenlapper alleen in 'n groot glasfles.
Corné Edwards het 'n obsessie met lap. In haar werk as grafiese kunstenaar en modeontwerper is sy egter nie net gepla met die patroontjies op die lap nie. Sy gee ook om waar dit vandaan kom. Mari Beukes het met haar gaan gesels oor haar omgewingsvriendelike klerereeks en die idee dat klere nie net hergebruik nie, maar ook herwin kan word.
Die lig stroom wit deur Corné Edwards se woonstelvensters. Dit weerkaats oor die leë vloer se houtpatrone en teken 'n blink randjie om haar gesig en kort geknipte swart hare. Waar sy in die hoek van die vertrek sit, lyk sy amper te fyn en te weerloos mooi om alleen in so 'n groot, oop ruimte te woon ' soos 'n skoenlapper alleen in 'n groot glasfles.
When it comes to connecting art, science, and design, there can be no better inspiration than Leonardo da Vinci.
He was the great genius of the Renaissance, who not only connected these three disciplines but fused them into a seamless whole in a unique synthesis that has not been equaled before, nor afterwards. I have studied Leonardo's synthesis for many years. I published a book, The Science of Leonardo, in 2007; and I have now written about three quarters of a second book, in which I go deeper into the various branches of his science.
Most authors who have discussed Leonardo's scientific work have looked at it through Newtonian lenses. This has often prevented them from understanding its essential nature, which is that of a science of organic forms, of qualities, that is radically different from the mechanistic science of Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. And this is precisely why Leonardo's science is so relevant today, especially for education, as we are trying to see the world as an integrated whole, making a perceptual shift from the parts to the whole, objects to relationships, quantities to qualities.
'Heal our planet, nurture nature and all her creatures' the words of the bright mural stood out from the kaleidoscope of birds, flowers, trees, stars, leopard and antelope. I was amazed to see such a beautiful mural at the back of the garden of the Sunlight Gallery in the sleepy town of Graskop, Mpumalanga. The artist, Griet van der Meulen wandered past and I asked if I could take a photograph of the mural. I explained that I am an environmentalist, a term that I dislike in the sense that it implies that others are not, and she replied 'off course' and proceeded to show me other artworks. 'Wait', I said and rushed to the car, grabbed my video camcorder and rushed back.
Scientists have crucial data on climate change, but how do they get it across to us? The idea was born of using art to get this information to people in popular ways ' through TV, radio, acting, stories, dance, even graffiti. Scientists mostly don't convey information in friendly ways, and people don't always want to hear about climate change and the radical shifts required. So an intermediary is needed.
