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Hold 2017 Exhibition at: Artbox Gallery 86 Skilpad Rd, Monument Park, Pretoria, 0105 Phone: 083 384 2402 Theona Truter theonat@mweb.co.za www.theonatruter.co.za

Front page Definition of “Hold” on front cover: Google.co.za. (2017). hold definition - Google

The Pepper Merchant (Part of the São João Series) Collagraph, watercolour and pencil; On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm; 70cm x 70cm

Contents Artist statement The Extinction Series The SĂŁo JoĂŁo Series The R101 Series The Hindenburg Series The Laingsburg Series The Marikana Series The Personal series The Knysna Series About the artist Acknowledgements

Objects left behind In my work I am exploring how we deal with tragedy and experience loss. Having lost close family members I am intrigued with how a series of events can cause total devastation. How a collision or moment of impact can off-set a life-long process of mourning and dealing with loss.

After a disaster people would question and try to understand the events leading up to the disaster and the reasons behind it. They will scrutinize what was left behind.

Objects, completely inanimate, suddenly become precious and personify or represent the diseased. The relationship we have with these objects, discarded, left behind or lost, are shown prominently in my work.

The investigators at the crash site will analyse all the debris. Objects will then be documented and archived. The clean-up crew will try to salvage and restore.

People not involved, will scavenge and collect curiosities. Grieving family members will be emotional about broken bits and pieces. They will try to retrieve, hold on, or put all the shreds and shards away for safekeeping.

The objects themselves will be proof of those who have lived. The marks, dents and scrapes on each object will show how it was used and how its owner interacted with the world around him. It will reflect what he did and who he was.

These objects will tarnish, rust, disintegrate and eventually/ hopefully also be lost when the burden of belonging becomes too heavy for the keepers, wanting to memorialize them.

The disillusioned will realize that the person does not reside within the inherited objects.

They will turn to memories but memories fade and no two people’s memory of a person will be the same as each memory has been formed within a certain context, experience or frame of reference. The reality of a life lived is only a collection of memories that will change over time.

Within your history/inheritance/ family resides a lot of information of who you are and your existence. “…any man’s death diminishes me...”

(John Donne•) Having lost family members you question your own reality and more importantly your identity.

With the passage of time the things that we find important will fade and will eventually be lost.

To explore these themes I am working with objects as metaphors for loss. The body of work is presented as a series of disasters.

Although the loss is personal, the disasters are universal, and still relevant when the viewer can place the disaster within a specific context, time or place.

Bibliography • PoemHunter.com. (2017). No Man Is An Island Poem by John Donne - Poem Hunter. [online] Available at: https://www.poem

hunter.com/poem/no-man-is-an-island/ [Accessed 1 Apr. 2017].

Traces Left Behind (Part of the Extinction series) Collagraph, watercolour and pencil; On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm; 100cm x 70cm

The Sound of Birdsong Collagraph, watercolour, pencil and found objects On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 72cm x 70cm

“...the Blue Bird singing..., of things that are not and that should be.”

Collagraph, mixed media and found objects On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 70cm

“…and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.” - Oscar Wilde

The Extinction Series

of our most familiar species.” (Gray, 2017).

Date: 1980-present Place: Europe Death toll: 421 million

In another study (2013) refered to as The Second Silent Spring?, by the American Bird Conservancy it was found that eonicotinoids, now the most widely used insecticides on Earth, are lethal to birds: A single seed coated with a neonic can kill a songbird, such as Field Sparrow.

Bird populations tended to decline by an average of 3.5 percent annually where these pesticides are used. Those insecticides, have also been in the news due to the way they harmed bees and other pollinators (News.nationalgeographic.com, 2017).

Increasing levels of fragmentation and urbanisation of the countryside as well as the use of insecticides have affected bird numbers across the globe.

Garden birds in ‘alarming’ decline was the headline in The Telegraph of November, 2014.

A study, which was published in the journal Ecology Letters, used data gathered from 25 countries as part of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme. It has shown that populations of the most widespread species have dropped by around 421 million across Europe since 1980. House sparrows and starlings are among the worst affected species as populations declined by 150 million in 30 years.

Dr Richard Inger, an ecologist at the University of Exeter, who led the study, said: “The vast majority of the declines are caused by losses in the most common species which are often forgotten about in terms of conservation. “Birds have key roles in ecosystems for things like pest control, seed dispersal and carcass removal. Do we really want to lose bird song to watching birds feed in your garden?”

“It is clear that the way we are managing the environment is unsustainable for many

Rachel Carson was the first to write about pesticides and birds back in 1962. Carson’s seminal Silent Spring was the first popular attempt to warn the world that pesticides were contributing to the “sudden silencing of the song of birds.”

Bibliography Gray, R. (2017). Garden birds in ‘alarming’ decline. [online] Telegraph.co.uk. Available

at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/11204029/Garden-birds-in-alarming-decline.html [Accessed 22 Apr. 2017].

News.nationalgeographic.com. (2017). Second Silent Spring? Bird Declines Linked to Popular Pesticides. [online] Available at: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140709-birds-insectspesticides-insecticides-neonicotinoids-silent-spring/ [Accessed 23 Apr. 2017].

Lear, L. (2017). Rachel Carson, The Life and Legacy. [online] Rachelcarson.org. Available at:

http://www.rachelcarson.org [Accessed 22 Apr. 2017].

Ming Porselain

On the Tides

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

Collagraph, watercolour, pencil and thread On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

The São João Series Date: 18 June 1552 Place: Port Edward, Kwazulz Natal, RSA Passengers and crew: 600 Survivors: 21 Death toll: 100 drowned, 479 died on

the journey to Mozambique The Portuguese ship São João (after which Port St Johns was named), was a large 900 ton galleon, built in Lisbon, Portugal’s shipyards in 1550. Its first voyage was to India.

On her return she had left Cochin, India, on 3 February 1552 loaded with pepper, Chinese porcelain, (which dates back to the Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty(1522-66), cornelian beads from Cochin, cowrie shells and other merchandise. Her rigging was damaged in a storm, its hull was broken into 3 parts on the rocks near Port Edward in KwaZulu Natal. A hundred people drowned and the rest of them, led by the captain, Manuel de Souza e Sepulveda, a Portuguese nobleman, undertook a difficult five and a half month march to the mouth of the Maputo River in Mozambique.

The captain, his wife, Leanora, their two children, and most of the survivors from the wreck died in attacks by local groups, or from disease and starvation on the gruelling journey.

Only seven Europeans and fourteen slaves reached Mozambique.

There is a memorial at the São João site in Port Edward.

“Manuel de Sousa DE SEPULVEDA, ..., buried his wife and children in silence, walked off alone in the bush and was never seen again.” (Crampton, 79).

Bibliography Crampton, Hazel; The Sunburnt Queen:

A True Story; 2004; Johannesburg : Jacana.

South African History Online. (2017). Disaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks. [online] Available at: http://www.sahistory.org.za/

dated-event/disaster-strikes-portuguese-ship-sao-joaosinks [Accessed 25 Mar. 2017].http://www.sahistory.org. za/dated-event/disaster-strikes-portuguese-ship-saojoao-sinks

profile, V. (2017). THE EARLY PORTUGUESE SETTLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA. [online] Southafricanresearcher.blogspot.co.za. Available at: http://southafricanresearcher.blogspot.co.za/2010/04/early-portuguesesettlers-in-south.html [Accessed 2 Jun. 2017].

The Pepper Merchant (Front page) Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 70cm

The Crash Site Installation piece consisting of digital prints, mixed media and an animation film On Canso, 200gsm; 29cm x 40cm

The R101 Series Date: 5 October 1930 Place: Beauvais, France Passengers and crew: 55 Survivors: 7 Death toll: 48 R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on longdistance routes within the British Empire.

It was designed and built by an Air Ministryappointed team and was effectively in competition with the government-funded but privately designed and built R100.

When built it was the world’s largest flying craft at 223metres in length, and it was not surpassed by another hydrogen-filled rigid airship until the Hindenburg flew seven years later.

After some trial flights and subsequent modifications to increase lifting capacity, which included lengthening the airship by 14 metres, it crashed on 5 October 1930 in France during its maiden overseas voyage. The impact was slight and caused few if any injuries, but the ship’s hydrogen ignited and the ensuing inferno killed 48 of the 55 passengers and crew. Among the deceased passengers were Lord Thomson, the Air Minister who had initiated the programme, senior government officials, and almost all the dirigible’s designers from the Royal Airship Works.

The crash of R101 effectively ended British airship development, and was one of the worst airship accidents of the 1930s.

Bibliography Grossman, D. (2017). Hidrogen Airship disaster. [online] Airships.net. Available at: http://www.airships. net/hidrogen/airship/accidentsNavy Airships, and other Dirigibles. [Accessed 5 Apr. 2017].

Wikipedia. (2017). R101. [online] Available at: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101 [Accessed 28 Mar. 2017].

Images British Pathé (Jul 27,2011)YouTube.

Hindenburg Disaster Real Footage 1937. (2017).

[video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U1 Oct. 2017]. [Accessed 7 Apr. 2017].

Daily News (2017). Hindenburg disaster victims. [image] Available at: http://www.nydailynews.com/ new-york/hindenburg-disaster-anniversary-gallery1.1072697?pmSlide=1.1072693 [Accessed 6 Apr. 2017].

Haining, K. (n.d.). Gallery: Wreckage of the R101 Airship (R101-8) in Allonne near Beauvais, Oise, Picardie, France.Kirsty. [image] Available at: http://

www.hainings.net/2/20623.htm [Accessed 28 Mar. 2017].

Sound Davro (2015). WWII Air Raid Siren. [Online] Davao.

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5Q__ uLcDA [Accessed 30 Mar. 2017].

Irving, T. (2015). Air and Light 5 minutes sound of gusting wind in barley field changing light. [On-

line] Youtube: Tim Irving. Available at: http://Air and Light 5 minutes sound of gusting wind in barley field changing light [Accessed 30 Mar. 2017].

Debris Site I Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 100cm

Debris Site II Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 100cm

The Hindenburg Series

Bibliography

Date: 6 May 1937 Place: Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA Passengers and crew: 97 Survivors: 62 Death toll: 36

Grossman, D. (2017). The Hindenburg disaster. [online] Airships.net. Available at: http://www.airships.

On May 3, 1937, the Hindenburg left Frankfurt, Germany, for a journey across the Atlantic to Lakehurst’s Navy Air Base.

Stretching 804 feet from stern to bow, it carried 36 passengers and crew of 61. While attempting to moor at Lakehurst, the airship suddenly burst into flames, probably after a spark ignited its hydrogen core. Rapidly falling 200 feet to the ground, the hull of the airship incinerated within seconds. Thirteen passengers, 21 crewmen, and 1 civilian member of the ground crew lost their lives, and most of the survivors suffered substantial injuries.

Radio announcer Herb Morrison, who came to Lakehurst to record a routine voice-over for an NBC newsreel, immortalized the Hindenberg disaster in a famous on-thescene description in which he emotionally declared, “Oh, the humanity!”

He commented that it was the worst thing he had ever witnessed. The recording of Morrison’s commentary was flown to New York, where it was aired as part of America’s first coast-to-coast radio news broadcast.

Lighter-than-air passenger travel rapidly fell out of favour after the Hindenberg disaster, and no rigid airships survived World War II.

net/hindenburg/disaster/crew-list/ The Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg, U.S. Navy Airships, and other Dirigibles.

[Accessed 5 Apr. 2017].

Klein, C. (2017). History Stories: The Hindenburg disaster. [online] History.com. Available at: http://www. history.com/news/the-hindenburg-disaster [Accessed 6 Apr. 2017].

The Wreckage I (Part of the R101 series) Linocut print Limited Edition 15/15 On Fabriano Rosapino, 285gsm; 20cm x 36cm

Only Driftwood

Only Driftwood II

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cmDriftwood x 70cm Only

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm The Water level gauge (Acknowledgement page) Collagraph, watercolour and pencil; On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm; 100cm x 70cm

The Laingsburg Series Date: 25 January 1981 Place: Laingsburg, Western Cape, RSA Death toll: 104 The Laingsburg flood of 25 January 1981 is known as the most serious disaster in the history of South Africa. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the 25th rain fell continuously in and around Laingsburg, a small town in the Karoo between Cape Town and Beaufort West. Up to 425mm rainfall was recorded that weekend, whereas the average rainfall per annum is only 175mm.

By 08:00 on the Sunday morning the Buffels River, on whose banks the town is built, was in flood and overflowing into the town.

Simultaneously there was a confluence of two rivers, the Baviaans and the Wilgerhout, flowing from the area to the north known as the Moordenaars Karoo, which caused a high volume of water to accumulate at one time. This water entered the main stream just in front of the railway bridge towards the south of the town causing a natural blockage.

Pressure against the railway bridge is estimated to have been 8000 tons per second. The level of the Buffels River rose dramatically at about 12:00 and by 14:00 the town (CBD) was under water.

Residents of Laingsburg, who were used to seeing the Buffels River in flood from time to time, thought that it would soon subside

again, not realizing that this was a devastating flood that would hit the town with masses of water coming from an extensive catchment area. Moreover, the railway bridge and the road bridge over the N1 caused a huge obstruction as trees, plants, rocks, animals and many other objects blocked the flow of the river. Within seconds, the town was turned into a dam.

When the gravel embankments leading to the bridges gave way, the water ran at a tremendous speed washing everything away. In the blink of an eye, houses, people, almost the whole town disappeared.

The loss of life in Laingsburg was a hundred and four; men, women and children.

Survivors of the flood tell stories of how they were washed down river, some clinging to anything that would float, how they clambered to safety along the banks or found themselves floating in the Floriskraal Dam among heaps of debris, 21 km from town. The number of bodies that were recovered was 32; 72 were never found.

Bibliography Marais, G.F.; Day of the Buffalo - The Laingsburg Flood; 1981; Paarl Printing Company

Pty LTD; Paarl Laingsburg info. (n.d.). Laingsburg Flood Museum. [online] Available at: http://www.laingsburg-info.co.za/ town/business/306/laingsburg-flood-museum [Accessed 4 Jun. 2017].

Deep Under the Ground

Tunneling for Air

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

The Marikana Series Date: Place: Death toll:

9 - 16 August 2012 Marikana, North West, RSA 40 miners, 2 police officers and 2 security guards

On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province. The police killed 34 mineworkers, and left 78 seriously injured.

Following the open fire assault - 250 of the miners were arrested.

This event culminated after an intense week-long protest in which the miners were demanding a wage increase at the Lonmin Platinum Mine in an unofficial industrial action (strike action undertaken by unionised workers without the unionleadership’s authorisation, support, or approval).

On 9 August approximately three thousand miners went on strike to demand a wage increase. On 10 August, a large group of the striking miners approached the National Union for Miners (NUM) local office in order to demand support from their union. Two miners were fatally wounded.

Between 12- 14 August at least four miners, two police officers and two security guards died in the ensuing violence. On 13 August, 30 miners were delegated to cross the veld (field) that separated them from another Lonmin Platinum Mine, Karee, where miners were

also undergoing a strike. The 30 miners were forced by security to turn back. On their way back they were met with a contingent of police. The police barred their way and told them to lay down their weapons (machetes), to which the workers refused.

The police allegedly began to open fire on them, and the miners retaliated.

Two policemen and two miners were killed in this battle, and one miner was injured severely.

The strike continued despite gaining no support from NUM. On 14 August Lonmin officially halted production at the Marikana Platinum Mine.

The miners set up camp on a hill called Wonderkop near the Lonmin mine. Police and miners occasionally entered into discussions however the miners remained steadfast in their strike action, and on 16 August, South African police opened fire.

They shot down 112 men, killing 34.

Bibliography Davies, N. (2015). Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights. [online] The Guardian. Available at: https:// www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/marikanamassacre-untold-story-strike-leader-died-workers-rights [Accessed 11 Jul. 2017].

South African History Online. (2013). Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012. [online] Available at:

http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/marikana-massacre16-august-2012 [Accessed 11 Jul. 2017].

The Blue car

Measuring the void

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 100cm x 70cm

The Personal series Date: Place: Death toll:

18 May 2013 Rustenburg, North West, RSA 1

Ivo Labuschagne (1975 - 2013)

Who will look after my memories when I am gone? Part I (Bottom) Collagraph, watercolour and pencil; On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm; 70cm x 100cm

Who will look after my memories when I am gone? Part II (Not featured) Series of 20 works; Watercolour and pencil; 10 on Daler Rowney, 190gsm & 10 on Fabriano Tiepolo, 290gsm; 20cm x 14cm

Dying Embers Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 100cm

Burnt to a cinder Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 100cm

The Knysna Series Date: Place: Death toll:

6-10 June 2017 Knysna, Eastern Cape, RSA 7 people

A devastating fire destroyed large parts of Knysna in June and left seven people dead.

Scores of people were left homeless. The municipality estimates the cost of rehabilitation infrastructure at R113 million, excluding R30 million for environmental damage.

More tragic is the loss of life. Three of the victims were the Uitenhage family.

Up in smoke Collagraph, watercolour and pencil On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm 70cm x 100cm

Madre Johnston, 33 – who was eight months pregnant – husband Tony, 34, and son Michael perished in the raging forest fires while fleeing for safety from their Sedgefield small-holding. It was little Michael’s third birthday (Herald Live: 2017).

Bibliography Alcoa FM News. (2017). Act of God ruled out in Knysna fires. [online] Available at: https://www.

algoafm.co.za/article/local/87757/act-of-god-ruled-outin-knysna-fires [Accessed 25 Oct. 2017].

Herald Live. (2017). Former Uitenhage family die in Knysna fire. [online] Herald Live. Available at: http:// www.heraldlive.co.za/news/top-news/2017/06/08/ former-uitenhage-family-die-knysna-fire/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2017].

About the artist Theona Truter completed her BA Fine arts degree in 1999 from the University of South Africa.

She works in a range of media including printmaking, drawing, painting and mixed media. Her work deals with the themes of place and the temporality of existence.

In exploring the passing of time and the fragility of life, she searches for traces and forgotten memories.

From 2001 to 2006 she has worked as graphic designer at Action Advertising and @FIKE Advertising in Rustenburg.

She has lectured subjects like Design Method and Communicating With Images on the Edexcel National Diploma in Graphic Design at Damelin Rustenburg from 2007-2012. She was a lecturer at Centurion Academy Rustenburg from 2013-2016 and lectured in drawing and design history.

Currently she is working on a series of works that will be part of a longterm project to explore how we experience loss by referring to disaster events and juxtaposing these images with drawings of objects belonging within a specific context of ownership (past or present). The link or connection between these images will denote the narrative/meaning of the work.

Qualifications: BA Fine Arts (UNISA) 1999 (cum laude) Certificate in Computer Graphics (UNISA) 2003 Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts (UNISA) 2006

theonat@mweb.co.za www.theonatruter.co.za

Acknowledgements Exhibition: Artbox Gallery Speaker: Sanmarie Harms Catalogue Design and lay-out: Theona Truter Artwork photography: Alex Dean Photography Printing: Printulu, Johannesburg Appreciation Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Emma Willemse. As an artist, art educator and curator, her knowledge is invaluable. I want to thank her for always being so generous with her time as mentor and adviser.

Secondly I am profoundly grateful to Sanmarie Harms for her continious support, insightful comments and encouragement.

I would like to thank my husband, my wonderful boys and my parents for supporting me.

Dedicated to my brother.

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The Pepper Merchant (Front page) Collagraph, watercolour and pencil; On Fabriano Rosapina, 285gsm; 70cm x 70cm