Pop Up on 4th is hosting its second artist’s pop-up shop this time featuring The Artists’ Press, on Saturday 30th August 2014, from 9h00 to 17h00.
Pop Up on 4th is a multipurpose venue for events and creative outpourings, “Our objective is to use the venue as a catalyst to support and partner with emerging creative people, to showcase their fine art, music, comedy and creative thinking. Each event will include different independent craft brewers, wine makers and pop up chefs, offering people a place where they can experience and interact with art and artists in a simple, relaxed and meaningful way.” explains Ann Roberts, director of Pop Up on 4th.
The Artists’ Press Limited Edition Print Pop-Up Shop has been brought to Johannesburg for just one day to promote a wide scope of artists with whom the studio collaborates. The Artists’ Press is based in White River, Mpumalanga, under the direction of Tamar Mason and Master Printer Mark Attwood. The studio collaborates with both local and international artists and selects artists according to diversity in experience and excellence in skills. The subject matter varies from artist to artist and reflects, predominantly, the socio-political and cultural landscape of Southern Africa. The works produced by the studio present a range of printmaking techniques, namely, lithography, monoprint and letterpress. This Pop-Up Shop will have the widest selection of prints ever on sale outside of the studio’s premises in Mpumalanga.
Among the artists who have collaborated with The Artists’ Press, and those whose work will be sold on the day, are Diane Victor, Willem Boshoff, Conrad Botes, Anton Kannemeyer, Sibonelo Chiliza, Karin Daymond, Judith Mason, Sam Nhlengethwa, Nandipha Mntambo, Kim Berman, Sara Cao, Thami Jali, Espoir Kennedy, Johann Louw, Dumisani Mabaso, Colbert Mashile, Eugenie Marais, Tommy Motswai, André Naudé, Walter Oltmann, Tony Nkotsi, Fiona Pole, Claudette Schreuders, Mmakgabo Sebidi and Penny Siopis, to name a few.
As director and master printer Mark Attwood explains: “Print collaboration is when a skilled artist works with a skilled printer to create a print that neither could make on his or her own. The artist has their own concepts and style of working, that is uniquely theirs, but their grasp of the technical aspects of printmaking and lithography may be thin. Collaboration allows the artist to focus on the image while the printer makes sure that it is technically possible.”
The Pop Up on 4th Artists’ Press Print Limited Edition Print Pop-Up Shop will be open for one day, with food by Lilly Rosemary and Taylor’s Good Food Truck, craft beers, and live music.
Author: Gilly Hemphill.
Sam Nhlengethwa’s Score Reading from the Kind of Blue series. Medium – Two colour chine collé lithograph.
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