2019 FADA GALLERY SCHEDULE

2019 FADA GALLERY SCHEDULE (Summary) 

Distortion to Reflection

Jana Van Schalkwyk 

February 7- 28.

South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition &

2018/9 Thuthuka Jewellery Awards Exhibition

18 March – 13 April

Marvelous Real, A VIAD hosted exhibition of works produced by Miami-based Haitian-American artist, Edourd Duval Carrié.

13 April – 30May. (provisional dates)

2019 INDLELA | Journeys in Relation

STAFF/STUDENT Exhibition 

25 July – 31 August (provisional dates)

2019 JJC Schools Art and Design Awards

18 September – 28 September 

VIAD and FADA Gallery hosted Exhibition.

Exhibition to be announced. 

1 October – 30 October 

Visual Arts B Tech exhibitions. 

5 - 23 November (provisional dates)

Innovative and creative work produced by FADA Alumni in 2019 

27 November - 6 December (provisional dates)

2019 FADA Gallery Schedule (Comprehensive).

February 7-28

Distortion to Reflection

A body of work produced by Jana Van Schalkwyk in partial fulfilment of the Masters Degree in Visual Arts. 

18 March – 13 April

FADA Gallery hosts the following jewellery awards exhibitions;the 2019 South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition and the 2018/9 Thuthuka Jewellery Awards Exhibition.

South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition.

CREATIVE Feelin partnership with FADA Gallery will host the 2019 South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition. The awards exhibition aims to bring together established jewellers, including young and aspiring artists, in the creation of one-of-a-kind expressive or installation pieces. 

There are no limitations as artists are called upon to visualize and realise their ideas. The winner and runner-up of the competition will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on 18 March 2018 after which the South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition will open at the FADA Gallery on the Bunting Road Campus of the University of Johannesburg.

2018/9 Thuthuka Jewellery Award’s Exhibition

The Thuthuka Development Programme is proud to present an exhibition of jewellery designed by students from community schools and universities across the country.The annual awards exhibition celebrates an extraordinary mentorship program that focuses on design and skills development based on a challenging creative brief. This year each student had to explore creative design solutions incorporating semi-precious stones cut and polished in a diverse range of colours, forms and shapes and sizes. Natural and artificial fibres in a variety of crafted techniques and process were and optional extra, to offset colours and textures. Silver elements and components were added for structure, links and in the creation of dynamic forms and shapes in one-of-a-kind brooches, bracelets, earrings and neckpieces. 

13 April – 30 May

A VIAD curated exhibition of works produced by Miami-based Haitian-American artist, Edourd Duval Carrié.

Edouard Duval-Carrié, Memory Windows 2,
mixed media embedded in resin, 58x58", 2017

Marvelous Real

"Edouard Duval Carrié is a Miami-based Haitian-American artist, known for his colourful and politically-informed multimedia practice. His work draws upon the symbolic system of Haitian culture and society and redeploys them in new ways to create art forms which carve out a new aesthetic in contemporary Caribbean art. … In this proposed exhibition the artist will present, amongst other works, 15 elaborate engravings based on his own reading of a seminal novel of Caribbean literature, The Kingdom of this World. Written by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier in 1949, it has been called the first novel of ‘magical realism’. Carpentier himself in a 1949 lecture called it the “marvelous real.” Deploying the main character of the novel, Ti- Noel in a series of engravings which will then be placed in plexi glass, these pieces which draw from a marvelous oral understanding of the Haitian revolution now depict the revolution as a complex event in which the enslaved and the Loas of Haiti tussled not only with the French but with the revolutionary leadership of the slave revolution. The exhibition will also contain eight pieces called Memory Windows. These remarkable works are back-lit plexi glass pieces in which the artist reworks his repertoire of signs and symbols, assembling them so as to tell new stories." - Prof Anthony Bogues 

 

Edouard Duval-Carrié, Ogun Monté,
engraved plexiglass in artist's frame, 40x40", 2018 

University Winter Recess – 13 June - 8 July.  Gallery closed for renovations.

25 July – 31 August.

2019 INDLELA | Journeys in Relation

STAFF/STUDENT Exhibition 

FADA Staff and students are invited to submit work for the 2019 STAFF/STUDENT EXHIBITION, which will open at the FADA Gallery on 25 July 2019. Applicants are requested to submit work that explores image-making (in the broadest sense of the term) in relation to the curatorial focus below (Indlela | journeys in relation). A panel of selected artists, curators, and academics will adjudicate the work for final selection. Works are to be digitally submitted and will be selected based on quality and relevance to the exhibition theme and criteria. Only works completed in 2018/9 will be accepted. Accepted works – be they by staff or students – will be treated with equal seriousness and curatorial consideration. 

18 September – 28 September (provisional dates)

2019 JJC Schools Art and Design Awards

The awards exhibition, now in its 12^thyear, is hosted annually by the FADA Gallery. Working in close association with the Johannesburg Junior Council, the aim of the exhibition is to promote and showcase the work produced in art and design education programs offered at secondary schools in Gauteng– further details to be posted in due course. Prizes are sponsored by Herbert Evans.

1 October – 30 October

VIAD and FADA Gallery hosted Exhibition.

To be announced.

3-20 November (provisional dates)

Visual Arts B Tech exhibitions. 

Two consecutive exhibitions featuring the work of final year Visual Art Students.

27 November - 6 December (provisional dates)

Innovative and creative work produced by FADA Alumni in 2019. 

Creative and innovative work produced by FADA Alumni during 2019 -  a small refined  curated exhibition. The work selected will bring together the creative output of FADA Graduates; artists and designers across disciplines; work produced for solo and group exhibitions, held at galleries, including museums, designed and manufactured for fashion shows, including design fairs and events in South Africa. 

And the Winner is - SA Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition 2018

The Winner

SA Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition 2018

Joani Groenewald

Seven Deadly Seductions

Joani Groenewald’s work takes a satirical stance against popular-culture and consumer culture as experienced form within a South African context. 

In her latest series of works entitled The Seven Deadly Seductions, Groenewald is inspired by the religious concept of the seven deadly sins. The series humorously challenges the seductiveness of unethical behaviour, particularly within the framework of the current South African political environment. The pieces are personal interpretations and abstractions of form, material and colour. That take a satirical stance against popular culture and the consumer oriented lifestyle that so many South Africans have become accustom to. They portray negative character traits as jewels, which confront the meaning of status symbols. The work challenges perceptions through the influential symbolic power of jewellery, specifically as a means to communicate identity and social status.

Title: Envy (Title Image- above)

Materials: Oxidized Silver, Glass, Copper, Enamel, Plastic, Synthetic Coral, Cotton

Technique: Silversmithing, enameling, piercing, lamp work glass and mouldmaking techniques.

Title: Hopelessly Hopeful - three-part series

Materials: Brass, Glass, Copper, Enamel, Plastic, Cotton

Technique: Silversmithing, enameling, piercing, lamp work glass and mould making techniques

Title: Sloth

Materials: Silver, glass, synthetic turquoise, enamel

Technique: Silversmithing, enameling, piercing, lamp work glass and mould making techniques

About Art Jewellery

Groenewald views contemporary jewellery as medium through which one can critically reflect upon one’s social and political environment. Her research and art interests are based on memory and narrative studies; questioning the stability of them, whilst also challenging the traditional function of jewellery specifically in relation to a South African context. She continues to make art that feeds into and from these research interests.

About Joani Groenewald

Groenewald is a lecturer in the Visual Arts Department, as well as a jewellery designer, goldsmith and artist. She sees her technical grounding, as a medium that allows her to create conceptual art. She graduated with a Ba degree in Visual Art ( with a focus on Creative Jewellery- and Metal Design) from Stellenbosch University in 2009 where she later enrolled in the graduate training programme in 2010. During this time she worked as an goldsmith apprentice and eventually qualified as a goldsmith in 2011. In March 2015 she successfully completed her MA degree in Visual Arts from Stellenbosch University with distinctions. She was advent participatent of numerous, national and international contemporary jewellery exhibitions spaning her entire career in the jewellery industry.

The Runner-up

SA Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition 2018

Mariambibi Khan

Interlacing Identities.

Mariambibi Khan chose to investigate gendered and feminine identities and its associations to metallic and lace inspired jewellery. Her inspiration is derived from the hydrangea in both its live and skeletal decayed form. This represented a complex contrast and translation of form, shape and function. She has incorporated textile technique of bobbin lace in jewellery. This allowed her to construct metallic lace pieces which embodies bobbin lace in contemporary jewellery practices. She also found that although a more geometric structure of the lace is used it draws attention to feminine and gendered stereotypes associated with design processes. Her related research provides a description of the use of alternative material of lace and lace jewellery, and explores the associated gendered assumptions. This is illustrated in the delicate lines, floral patterns, and soft, organic design motifs which are considered to be more accepted for the adornment of women. However, her main focus was to analyze whether the material and context used played an important role in feminine inspired designs of lace jewellery.

Title: Bobbin Lace: Interlacing Identities.

Materials: Fine Silver, Sterling Silver & Gold Plating.

Technique: Bobbin Lace.

About Mariambibi Khan

Ms Khan was recently appointed jewellery lecturer in Metal Art and Design in the Department of Visual Art at the University  Stellenbosch.

In 2015 she graduated with a Ba Hons in Jewellery Design and Manufacture from the University of Johannesburg (Cum Laude). She has comprehensive knowledge of Jewellery Design and manufacturing skills, obtained from working in the industry - amongst others, Elegance Jewellers.

Special Mention

SA Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition 2018

Nora Kovats

Poeletjie

Kovats defines herself as an ‘identity-hopper’, due to her being South-African and European. She is interested in the way narrative constructs human identities particularly their overlaps and boundaries. Identities are infinitely complex and fragmented compositions, often paradoxical, fragile and fluid yet so powerfully definitive. Something she attempt to represent visually in the form of complicated, multi-layered structures in her jewellery and drawings.

With this particular piece, titled ‘Poeletjie’(Afrikaans for puddle or small pool)  she attempted to investigate her own fascination with water and its elusiveness. She describes water as “having the paradoxical characteristic of being immensely powerful (both as a force of nature and in its importance for humanity’s survival) yet also incredibly fragile, easily polluted and its systems tilted off-balance. It is mysterious, difficult to quantify. Water harbours some of our most profound fears in its darkest unexplored depths, and it is sheer gushing life and vibrancy. It carves away ancient stone with patient drops – literally shaping the landscapes that form our human stories, our identities.” 

She is drawn to enameling as a technique because of its uniqueness and its abbility to create spontaneity, dictated by the firing process. In this way she can achieve a feeling of fragility, fresh colour and a delicate, spattered texture that visually embodies the emotions water elicits for her.

Her thoughts were circling around different water themes for some time, sparked by news of the severe water crisis currently threatening Cape Town, her hometown, and the contrasting wastage she experience in Berlin, where dishes are washed under a running tap. She contemplates the links between water and human identities, how we are affected by floods, rain, drought, how we identify as river-people or sea-people or desert people. Water in itself can be seen as a metaphor for human identities with its perfectly contradictory embodiment of fragility and monumentality: water is an immensely powerful force of nature, yet so easily polluted and vulnerable. And like within herself in her existence - a dance between two countries, two cities - water succeeds in having multiple identities at the same time.

Title: Poeletjie (Puddle)

Jewellery Piece: Brooch and Pendant (dual function)

Materials: Enamel. Copper, sterling silver, steel pin, amethyst, citrine

Technique: Smithing, enameling, hand-sawing

About Nora Kovats

Kovats graduated with a BA and MA Degree in Jewellery Design from the Stellenbosch University. She was the overall winner of the 2013 Thuthuka Jewellery & Product Development Programme Competition. She has participated in a number of International Jewellery competitions including the Berlin State Prize Competition for Applied Arts in Germany.

South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition at FADA Gallery

Philisa Zibi, Amaza (waves), Brass, silver, leather.
Hammering Technique.

FADA Gallery in partnership with CreativeFeel and the Contemporary JewelleryForum cordially invite you to the awards ceremony and opening of the SouthAfrican Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition.

Venue: FADA Gallery

Date: Thursday 15 March

Time: 18:00 for 18:30

Guest speaker: Beverley Price

Art Jewellery Forum, Ambassador for South Africa

RSVP eugene hön eugeneh@uj.ac.za

Exhibition run: Friday 16 March to Thursday 29 March 2018

The awards exhibition will showcase finalist pieces selected from a national jewellery design and manufacture competition introduced at the launch of Africa’s first Contemporary Jewellery Forum (CJF) in the Jewellery Department of the University of Johannesburg in October 2017. These initiatives are premised on promoting jewellery as a creative medium for personal expression and providing a platform for the development of cutting edge concept and techniques while creating fine and distinctive art jewellery.

For many years South Africa has been a major player in the mining of minerals, supplying gold, platinum and diamonds to the global jewellery manufacturing sector while nationally there has been relatively little beneficiation of these local raw materials. A focus of this competition is therefore to encourage artists to innovate and create; to combine materials, techniques and finishes and to push boundaries beyond the obvious and mundane and ultimately to maximise the local economic contribution. 

Eric Loubser, 1700, Sterling silver, Found object, Fly Press Technique.

Contemporary Jewellers are in the unique position of being able to make work that crosses many boundaries - art, design, fashion, craft, engineering - and the intimate scale of jewellery and its close relationship to the body also make it a great vehicle for communication. There are many talented jewellery artists working in the country at the moment who often don't get the recognition they deserve, so these Awards are a much needed platform to showcase their work to a broader audience. Geraldine Fenn - contemporary South African Jeweller.

The awards exhibition aims to bring together established jewellers, including young and aspiring artists, in the creation of one-of-a-kind expressive or installation pieces. There are no limitations as artists are called upon to visualize and realise their ideas. 

The winner and runner-up of the competition will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on 15 March, 2018 after which the South African Contemporary Jewellery Awards Exhibition will open at the FADA Gallery on the Bunting Road Campus of the University of Johannesburg.

Lin Cheung, Delayed Reactions – Troubled Times. 2018  Brooch, 

hand carved rock crystal, 18ct gold

Pearl Necklace, In Black and White
2018, hand carved white and eyed
black freshwater pearls, 14ct gold.

International and local judges will ensure works selected will be deserving of their inclusion in this well-established niche market.  All pieces on exhibition will be for sale, presenting an opportunity for art collectors and the public to add jewellery to their collections. A comprehensive catalogue of all work on exhibition will be forthcoming, contributing to research and development in this field and stimulating much needed growth in this niche market.

Johan van Aswegen, Tieroog Tiara - Photographs - Jinkyun Ahn.

Exposure of the winning artist’s pieces and that of the runner-up in the April 2018 issue of CREATIVE Feel will gain them national and international recognition.

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