About the artist Majak Bredell
Bredell was born in Kroonstad. In 1981 she emigrated to New York with her now ex-husband and two young children. After living and working in New York for 23 years the artist returned to South Africa in 2004 to build a studio where she lives on the side of the Drakensberg in Limpopo.
Since her return to South Africa, she produced several extensive bodies of work that look at established mythology from a feminist perspective.
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Majak Bredell
Birth is a hand written poem by Majak Bredell
I cast my eyes up to the mountains
but it is in the crevices and the caves,
the primordial hollows where
I find her — eternally
abiding in the dark, moist,
rock seams her velvety lips
outlined with emerald green moss —
she whispers a lullabyed promise,
a reminder of when she carried all life
in the dark interior of
her body until the
hour of creation.
I seek her in the lowlands and
the voids where I honor her,
the knolls and the ripe swellings
where I sing her praise song —
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Oh, Body from which all bodies sprung!
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Great Primordial Hollow!
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Mother, Mud, Earth!
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Majak Bredell
Majak Bredell exibition CODEX MAGDALENE
Gesso, graphite, oil-wash & metallic gouache on Stonehenge paper
Towards a new iconography and re-imaging the mythology and legends of Mary Magdalene.
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Hanlie Bosch
"These two ceramic pieces were inspired by my Kundalini practice. They have a female energy and delve into raising energy to the crown, the inner flame and the fire of truth."
Hanlie’s work expresses her parallel interest in the medium of both clay and painting. Apart from colourfully decorated plates and bowls, Hanlie’s ceramics comprise mostly hand-built pieces and sculptures. She is well known for her figurines of dancers and gymnasts, as well as clay heads with otherworldly expressions.
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Hanlie Bosch
“The main theme of my work is faces, figures and animals in space. Pieces should be vibrant in colour and contemplative”.
Hanlie’s work amply expresses her parallel interest in the mediums of both clay and painting. Even though she shares a studio and gallery with her husband, ceramist Anton Bosch, her art is distinctively different with a style and approach uniquely her own.