REFRESH A Group Exhibition

REFRESH A Group Exhibition, Framing Place Cape Town 06 - 19 December 2019

Neeske Alexander, Still Life Clean

Neeske Alexander, In My Mothers shoes

Refresh is a group exhibition celebrating the onset of Summer and a new outlook for the Framing Place, Observatory, Cape Town. Participating artists include Peter van Straten, Neeske Alexander and Simthandile Witbooi.

With more than thirty years experience in the art framing industry, Framing Place has always assisted with making choices in a number of alternative ways with ideas that suit individual taste and needs, considering the subject and it’s surroundings. “We are committed to producing frames of a high quality, exceeding expectations with special attention to detail. Refreshing our space, giving it a new look and with the new year approaching, we likened it to the idea of “2020 vision” With that, we hope to create a fresh space for the artists to exhibit their creations”, says Michelle Abrahams, co-owner.

This group exhibition brings together some of South Africa’s sought after contemporary artists.

Neeske Alexander received training in oil painting and printmaking from her art mentor, Ian Tainton, since 1998. In 2019, Neeske participated in an international comics workshop and exhibited at the Angoulême Comics Festival, France. She has taken part in a variety of group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Neeske has received several awards for her work including a prize in the international Picture This! Illustration competition in 2017 and first prize in the Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Tondo competition in 2019. She is currently a parttime lecturer at Stellenbosch University.

(Detail) Peter van Straten, I Want You

Peter van Straten is one of South Africa’s best loved painters of esoteric and philosophical themes. His paintings are immediately recognisable by their smoothness and translucency - achieved through “glazing” - the method favoured by old masters like Vermeer. “If anything it is reassuring to know that one’s journeying will never be threatened by something as crass as destination, and it is pure bliss to paint that journey.” Peter van Straten.

Simthandile Lisakhanya Witbooi is a visual artist and metaphysical poet from Langa, Cape Town. Still a student and her debut public exhibition participation, her work is of

mixed media including acrylic paint, pencil colour, and collage. In it, she explores the identity of a young African woman through contemporary surrealism and expressionism that explores the light, potential and history we all carry within.

Be sure to pop in at the Framing Place to enjoy a feast for the eyes and soul. REFRESH will run until 19 December 2019 at Framing Place 46 Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town / enquiries 021 447 3988 email info@ framingplace.co.za