iArt Gallery

30 October – 6 November

Showing in a whistle-stop time frame at iArt Gallery Wembley, if you go down to the subway today is a collection of work that takes a brief, tongue-in-cheek look at the idea of the human animal. One wall of the space has been pasted with posters, creating a setting reminiscent a subway station or sheltering under a bridge. Within this fundamentally urban setting, strange creatures emerge. An inebriated hare leans unsteadily against a wall while another flies overhead. Leaves and feathers cast in bronze are scattered upward in a gust of wind, accompanied in their flight by fish out of water swimming along the airwaves.

Though this collection of work has a generally light-hearted attitude, it raises significant imaginative issues around high-density living and an increasingly common desire to lean away from a high-speed metropolitan existence in order to live “closer to the earth” in the face of accelerating ecological concerns.

Participating artists:
Carla Crafford, Guy du Toit, Sarel Petrus, Wilma Cruise, Audrey Anderson, Igsaan Martin