I’ve just dug up some images of my 2002 Diploma show… it was called THE ROSE PROJECT and was a commentary on the multi-billion dollar rose-growing industry in Kenya – a country that cannot feed itself, but where dozens of entrepreneurs, exploit and pollute the soil and ignore human rights, to grow and export Kenya-grown [...]
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The rose-project…
Posted in ART, My conceptual art on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Objective” Portraits…
Posted in ART, My conceptual art on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For this project, people were asked for objects that they felt ‘described’ or ‘represented’ them in ways that words or looks could not… To complete the ‘portrait’ I added an additional dimension in the form of text.
Vanitas – the Excessive Pride series…
Posted in ART, My conceptual art on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the rich merchants, 17th Century Holland was a virtual consumer paradise… To flaunt their wealth, their status in society and their knowledge, the affluent commissioned sumptuous portraits and still lives. And yet, this was not without inner conflict. In reality, the pious Dutch lived uneasily with their new-found wealth… By including in these [...]
