Arts on Main – DAVID KRUT PROJECTS

David Krut Workshop Weekly Children’s Activity with Pebofatso Mokoena, Jillian Ross and Sarah Hunkin

Posted on 2020/04/03 (2020/04/04) by Roxy

This workshop can be adapted to any age group. The activities have been created for ages 4 and up, but multiple levels of difficulty can be found, as well as links to further research available for teen level. Workshop Summary: READ about the artist Pebofatso MokoenaSEE pictures of his most recent exhibition Internal Probes LISTEN to a short Q&A with Pebo LEARN how to mix colours FOLLOW step-by-step instructions to make your own print at […]

Pebofatso Mokoena | Collaboration with David Krut Workshop | 2019-2020

Posted on 2020/03/04 (2020/03/05) by Roxy

Connections flourish when two or more worlds collide to create. For this latest collaboration Pebofatso Mokoena actively inserted himself into the bustling David Krut Workshop environment this way of working contrasts the privacy of his studio. He settled comfortably into the temporary studio space in the adjoining gallery to work intensively for his solo exhibition […]

Arts On Main Gallery Hanging February 2020

Posted on 2020/02/19 (2020/02/21) by Roxy

Since 2002, the David Krut Workshop (DKW) has functioned as the epicentre for artistic collaborations under David Krut Project’s (DKP). DKW is located at Arts on Main in the invigorated Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg and was one of the first spaces to opt into the Arts on Main initiative at its conception in 2010. This space […]

Mikhael Subotzky | Humorism (After Eliot and da Messina) | New Editions

Posted on 2019/12/11 (2020/02/14) by Roxy

Humorism (After Eliot and da Messina) marks Mikhael Subotzky’s first foray into printmaking. This series of eight prints, which combine a number of techniques, including photogravure, silkscreen, digital chine collé and monotype, continues Subotzky’s investigation into white masculine vulnerability. The series was created in concert with a new body of work, Massive Nerve Corpus, a […]

Winter Files, 2019

Posted on 2019/10/20 (2019/10/20) by Roxy

Maja Maljević’s latest exhibition, The Silence of the Change, has just opened at David Krut Projects, New York, featuring a selection of work from the Winter Files series that was created in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg earlier this year. Winter Files marks a breakthrough in Maljević’s relationship with printmaking, prompted by […]

Print of the Month | July/August | David Koloane | “Power 1”

Posted on 2019/07/28 (2019/08/02) by Roxy

David Krut Workshop’s July/August print of the month commemorates the late David Koloane (1938 -2019). The influential artist’s work looks with a lively and perceptive eye at the bustling urban environment with a particular focus on the complexities of the South African urban landscape. Koloane’s work is often recurring and commonly depicts township scenes, dogs, […]

Sneak Peak – Maja Maljević in the Workshop

Posted on 2019/07/28 (2019/08/02) by Roxy

This past July has seen artist Maja Maljevic hard at work at the David Krut Workshop. The teams flurry of printing activity is in preparation of her upcoming solo project in New York in October. Maljevic has been working with Master Printer Jillian Ross and the workshop team to produce a new series of mixed […]

Zhi Zulu collaborates with the David Krut Workshop

Posted on 2019/07/02 (2019/08/08) by Roxy

I am Zhi Zulu. I’m a 23-year-old, Gold craft Loerie award-winning illustrator from the beautiful city of Johannesburg. I love to tell stories through illustration. I just completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Visual Communication at the Open Window Institute. I have worked previously as a graphic designer and illustrator. I am currently the sole-owner of a […]

William Kentridge’s ‘A Poem is not your Own’ features the Triumphs and Laments Woodcut series, Kunst Museum, Basel

Posted on 2019/06/07 (2019/10/11) by Roxy

“Designed in close consultation with the artist, the exhibition showcases early graphic art and films from the 1980s and 1990s as well as examples of Kentridge’s more recent output, including the first adaptations for museum presentation of elements from The Head & The Load, which premiered at the Tate Modern, London, in the summer of […]

START/GROW YOUR ART COLLECTION AT THE BLUE HOUSE

Posted on 2019/04/16 (2019/04/25) by Noma Ngwenya

Introducing the Collector’s Room The Blue House, 151 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Are you looking to start or grow your art collection? The Collector’s Room is the go to place for art collectors to begin or grow their private or corporate collections. This new addition features a selection of prints from established and emerging African […]

FAITH 47, briefly back in South Africa.

Posted on 2019/02/03 (2019/02/03) by Elize de Beer

FAITH 47 is briefly back in South Africa after her move to Los Angeles. To all the followers of her work, we would like to share that she will be at the DAVID KRUT WORKSHOP at ARTS ON MAIN on Sunday 17 February 2019, 11am to 1pm, to talk about her experiences in re-locating to […]

Print of the Month | December 2018 – Matthew Hindley ‘Fireball’

Posted on 2018/12/11 by Roxy

This month features Matthew Hindley’s watercolour monotype Fireball, 2016 as our print of the month. This print was the first monotype pulled when he made this series at the David Krut Workshop in 2016. Hindley’s selection of cell phone photographs were found on Google images and newsfeeds. He is attracted to the raw quality of […]

Maja Maljević ‘Document for the People’ installed at DKW Arts on Main

Posted on 2018/11/29 (2018/11/29) by Roxy

The print collage series titled Document for the People were part of Maljević’s popular exhibition Polytekton 2018. They are on show at the David Krut Workshop, at Arts on Main in Maboneng. Maljević collaborated with Master Printer Jillian Ross and her team, at the David Krut Workshop, on a series of prints titled Documents for the People. […]

Print of the Month | November 2018 – Robyn Penn ‘Cloud of Unknowing’

Posted on 2018/11/09 (2018/11/09) by Roxy

Joburg-based multimedia artist Robyn Penn has collaborated with David Krut Workshop (DKW) since 2011 and has had a number of solo exhibitions with David Krut Projects (DKP), such as Pretty World, Exit and Echo. Penn’s work stems from a fascination with cloud formations, ranging from atomic bomb clouds, implosion clouds, volcanic ash clouds to […]

Print of the Month – (October 2018) Stephen Hobbs ‘Very Dangerous Grid’

Posted on 2018/10/23 (2018/10/23) by Roxy

Very Dangerous Grid finds its inspiration in the rotation of banal advertising adorning Joburg’s motorways, where the grid like infrastructure of the billboard, oscillates between being naked and bare and covered over. For Hobbs the bare skeleton is of more interest, a framing device for the clouds and sky, a site of projection, an […]

Deborah Bell – Sketchbook series, 2017 – ongoing

Posted on 2018/10/16 (2018/10/16) by Roxy

Sketchbook I -VI, 2017-2018, Drypoint (and spitbite aquatint) on Gampi and Hahnemühle 300 gsm, Edition: 30, Paper size: 22,4 x 30,4 cm Deborah Bell’s initial ideas are often conceived from her visual notebooks, where the spontaneity of her quick, private drawings seem to capture the figures in a gestural moment. In the making of her plates, […]

Nina Torr – New etching series

Posted on 2018/09/28 (2018/09/28) by Roxy

Nina Torr has been working on a series of new etchings. The copper plates were etched with elegantly detailed hardground etched lines. Each print is then individually hand painted with a range of varied colours and marks. This fun way of approaching a traditional technique has allowed Torr to experiment with each individual image coming […]

Rotation of the flywheel – DKCT visits DKW

Posted on 2018/09/14 (2019/10/11) by Roxy

The David Krut Workshop is a collaborative printmaking studio where selected artists work with master printer Jillian Ross and her team of printers to make fine art prints. The David Krut Projects Cape Town Team have their annul visit to Johannesburg in July to join in and learn more from the David Krut Workshop’s activities. […]