ART: Iona Gilburt

Art:

Iona Gilburt

Iona Gilburt completed her postgraduate studies at UWC and was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC from 2018-2020. At the CHR, she found a renewed interest in questions about the human and technology that resonated with her visual art. The lines in these pen drawings are freehand (no ruler). To achieve such detail, everything needs to be redrawn and shaped several times. The background is coloured in with pen. Iona has an interest in patterns, asymmetry, circuitry, and in being unable to mark inside from outside. ‘Portrait of Bongi’ is a drawing of her friend, Sibongile Khumalo, who is an Early Career Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research.