Blogger: Jessie Cohen 10.10.15 On entering the AOM workshop, architect-come-fine-artist Lorenzo Nassimbeni is already in work mode, pacing with a mug and a pen while…
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Up-and-coming artist Keneilwe Mokoena visits AOM 2015-12
08.12.15 Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming young up-and-coming artist, Keneilwe Mokoena, to the workshop to carve some test plates. Mokoena is from…
AOM: Control is the word
Activities (and weather conditions) are heating up at AOM before we shut our doors for 2015. The team multi-task in order to complete their projects…
Defence and deception in the modern South African battlefield: Stephen Hobbs on his etching suite, Buildings, bombs, bunkers and clouds 2015-11
27.11.15 Blogger: Jessie Cohen Visual artist and cultural producer Stephen Hobbs is well known for his war-design-inspired public artwork through which he probes the very real,…
A Luis Alonzo-Barkigia special at AOM
24.11.15 Blogger & photographer: Jessie Cohen It’s almost Christmas but the pace at AOM is not letting up. Master printer Jillian Ross is back in…
It’s “gym time” as work gets physically demanding but strong backs and weak minds won’t cut it at AOM…
18.11.15 Blogger & photographer: Jessie Cohen At this time of year, printers at AOM are wrapping up projects from 2015. The atmosphere is light but…
“In this profession, a millimetre matters”: Printing with precision at AOM
It’s another scorching day at AOM and printer Kim-Lee Loggenberg is in the workshop bright and early, ready to roll. This week Kim-Lee is editioning…
Printmaking in the “armpit of America”: Stephen Hobbs on his whirl-wind lecture tour of the United States 2015-11
Blogger: Jessie Cohen 2015-11 On returning to Johannesburg after an intensive three-week lecture and printmaking tour of the US, Stephen Hobbs is buzzing with enthusiasm…
Endale Desalegn’s Saturday meeting with the Art Press
7 November 2015 Saturday afternoon saw Endale Desalegn meeting members of the Art Press from publications like Art SA. Walking them around his Two Social…
Printer Kim-Lee Loggenberg on the processes behind Mischa Fritschs’ Bungee, Pointless, and Bicycle Interventions
Kim-Lee was asked just how Mischa Fritschs’ recent collaboration with DKW came into being from a technical perspective. This is how she describes it. …
Last night at DKP: bumper exhibition openings in connection with “thirsty Thursdays”!
Last night, we celebrated three exhibitions openings at DKP: Endale Desalegn’s “Two Social Pacifiers ጡጦ” at the Parkwood gallery and St. John Fuller’s “13” alongside…
Edition; Flatten; Crop; Bop: A merry Monday as work continues at AOM
This week at the DKP workshop, the printers are in the final stages of editioning works by Mischa Fritsch, Mongezi Ncaphayi and Oliver Mayhew. Monday mornings…