Lynda Ballen

 

Collaboration History

Lynda Ballen’s first solo exhibition with David Krut Projects (DKP) took place in 2012 and was titled Concerning Preciousness, for which she looked at metals and gems as capital. In 2016, Ballen had her second solo exhibition DE DIVITIIS (“regarding riches”) at DKP, continuing her engagement with the wealth yielded from earth. Ballen has featured on a number of DKP group shows, such as The Benediction of Shade II in 2014.

 

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Lynda Ballen was born in Johannesburg where she lives and works today as a fine artist. Ballen has also taught and mentored in arts institutions in South Africa, specifically the Johannesburg Art Foundation. At the heart of her practice is a great respect for global traditions of craftsmanship coupled with a desire to recognize raw materials as precious by privileging processes such as papermaking. Ballen has exhibited since the 1980s. She has work in major South African museum collections, such as The Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town and The Pretoria Art Museum. Ballen has a BA Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a MA in Art Education from New York University.

News

Honouring the Handmade: How Lynda Ballen confronts artifice with the artisan.
Mar. 24, 2023

Written by Danijela Cook "‘...the impulse to make things with our hands is universal. The action of making, the outcome...

Tags: Ex Terra Etcetera, Lynda Ballen
UPCOMING CURATORS AND ARTISTS SHINE IN KKNK VIRTUAL GALLERY 2020
Aug. 19, 2020

Press release issued by the KKNK | 31 July 2020 The visual arts programme of this year’s Klein Karoo National...

Tags: Ame Bell, Another Kind of Blue, Kind of Blue, KKNK
DO-IT-AT-HOME ACTIVITIES
May. 19, 2020

Click Here INTAGLIO PRINT SERIES RELIEF PRINT SERIES

Tags: Chad Cordeiro, David Krut Print Workshop, Deborah Bell, Heidi Fourie, intaglio print series, Kim-Lee Loggenberg, Linocut, live zoom demos, Lynda Ballen, Maja Maljević, Monotype, Olivia Botha, Pebofatso Mokoena, pochior, relief print series, Roxy Kaczmarek, Sarah Judge, Sbongiseni Khulu, zhi zulu
Print/s of the Month (January) – Lynda Ballen
Feb. 20, 2018

Ballen's Find 1 & 2 (2016) demonstrate beautifully the technique of sugarlift aquatint, chine collé and hard ground line. The...

Tags: Artist, Arts on Main, Collaborative printmaking, David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Arts on Main, DKW, etching, Jillian Ross, Lynda Ballen, Printmaking, South Africa
Subtle differences | Chine collé
Jul. 13, 2017

[caption id="attachment_44996" align="aligncenter" width="519"] Deborah Bell, Memo (Version A) uses torn colourful sheets of chine to highlight certain parts of...

Tags: Arts on Main, Chine, Chine Collé, Colle, David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Arts on Main, Deborah Bell, Drypoint, Emalie Bingham, etching, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Japanese Paper, Jillian Ross, Lorenzo Nassimbeni, Lynda Ballen, paper, Printmaking, Quinten Williams, Washi
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen’s speech at the opening for Lynda Ballen’s DE DIVITIIS 2016-09
Sep. 30, 2016

30.09.16 Lynda Ballen’s Deep Histories A speech by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen at Lynda Ballen's opening for DE DIVITIIS. Embedded in the...

Tags: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects Johannesburg
DE DIVITIIS: An Enchanting Solo Show by Lynda Ballen 2016-09
Sep. 28, 2016

28.09.16 Blogger: Jessie Cohen Tomorrow we launch DE DIVITIIS, Lynda Ballen's second solo show with DKP for which the artist continues...

Tags: David Krut Projects Johannesburg, DE DIVITIIS
DKP ask four women artists to reflect on the impact of their gender on their art 2016-09
Sep. 2, 2016

02.09.16 Blogger: Jessie Cohen To celebrate Women's Month, the DK Bookstore hosted an exhibition of all-women artists, which is on display for...

Tags: David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects Johannesburg, Women's Month
The Shrunken Forest
Jun. 21, 2013

Trees call to mind big leafy structures over our heads, like the Oak trees that surround the Montebello Design Centre,...

Tags: The Benediction of Shade
Lynda Ballen Biography
Jan. 14, 2000

Lynda Ballen received a BA Fine Arts degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a MA (Arts Education) at...

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