ONE YEAR
Joshua Miles Solo exhibition Prince Albert Gallery 04 April – 06 May 2019 By Cobus van Bosch
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n celebration of his first year living and working in Prince Albert a selection of the latest works by printmaker Joshua Miles will be showcased in a solo exhibition ”One Year” at the Prince Albert Gallery opening at 18:00 on Thursday 4th April. The exhibition will feature reduction block prints and monotypes created over the last twelve months, the time Joshua and his family spent in their new place of residence, the Karoo town of Prince Albert. “I am excited to show landscapes inspired by my new environments,” says Joshua, who lived and worked with his family in Baardskeerdersbos in the Overstrand before relocating. There will however also be examples of his, by now iconic, Cape Town scenes, especially Table Mountain vistas and impressions of the picturesque Cape fishing village of Kalk Bay. Although Joshua majored in painting at the Michaelis School of Art (University of Cape Town) he quickly developed an affinity for printmaking through his aunt, the artist and art historian Elza Miles, and received tuition from renowned South African printmaker Cecil Skotnes. “I painted for fifteen years, but have always experimented with lino cuts and woodcuts. It was during my stay some years ago in Scotland, in the quiet winter months when I really started to investigate printmaking, and I eventually created more editions than weeks spent there. That was with spoon printing - it was only back in South Africa (Baardskeerdersbos) where I got regular access to a printing press.”
The Square Dam, 565 x 440mm, reduction linocut
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