Sean Slemon

Collaboration History

Sean Slemon collaborated with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) on a series of prints for am exhibition of sculptures, drawings and prints at created at NIROXprojects in 2012.

Slemon was born in Cape Town in 1978. He completed his Bachelor’s in Fine Art at Michaelis, UCT. In 2007 he completed his Master’s in Fine Art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he is currently based. Slemon was joint winner of the Sasol New Signatures Award in 2005 and received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2009. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in 2007 and received a Chashama Studio residency in the same year. His work was recently included in the Pizzutti collection. He is represented by MagnanMetz Gallery in New York. Nathaniel Stern writes: “Sean Slemon’s work attempts to interrogate our relationship to the spaces we inhabit, and the land we posses. Mostly in the form of sculpture or installation, but often supplemented by drawings and etchings, he asks viewers to explore these as politically charged concepts. Sean believes that space and land create meaning, uncover history, facilitate change and transformation, and provide opportunities for power. As a young man growing up in South Africa, Sean always understood that provocative discourses surrounding space and land can lay bare turbulent histories or lead to contemporary legacies of disparity. He pushes the physicality of his work to change the space it inhabits, for an experiential impact on its viewers, and in order to accent this reality.”

Artworks

Playing and Owning I

Playing and Owning II

A Day in the Sun

Pulling Trees 1

Pulling Trees 3

Pulling Trees 5

Pulling Trees 6

Pulling Trees 7

Lines of Independence

Holding onto Shadow

Memorial to street trees

Combined Window

News

David Krut ARCHIVE

DAVID KRUT PROJECTS ARCHIVE Opening the Archives Opening the Archives gives the public the opportunity to view and buy works...

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An Exhibition of Sean Slemon’s work at Terres D’Afrique

Sean Slemon exhibit opening at Terres D'Afrique For more work by Sean Slemon created in collaboration with David Krut Print...

The Shrunken Forest

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

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Editions/Artists’ Book Fair, New York

David Krut Projects (DKP) participated in the 15th Anniversary of the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair, which opened on the evening of...

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Sean Slemon at David Krut Print Workshop

Sean Slemon has been working on a series of etchings at David Krut Print Workshop, Arts on Main, in anticipation...

New Work – Sean Slemon – Opening

On 8 July 2012 at NIROXprojects, Arts on Main, Sean Slemon's exhibition, New Work, opened. Below are images from the...

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Sean Slemon at DKW

Sean Slemon has been working on a series of etchings at David Krut Print Workshop, Arts on Main, in anticipation...

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Sean Slemon – New Work

Sean Slemon‘s exhibition New Work opened at NIROXprojects, Arts on Main, on Sunday 8 July. Below are some images of...