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Smokey Signals from the Groot Karoo 2017

Richmond was a dream that willed itself into some elusive physical form. I spent 18 days in the Karoo with magnificent people whom I invited from across the globe: Lilana Cuellar, Andrew Ananda Voogel, Chibuike Uzoma, Liz Lessner, João Renato Orecchia and Zúñiga,Caoimhghin O’Fraithilé. We collaborated, we debated, we ate, we laughed… The Karoo put […]

Installation, Mixed media, Projects

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Maybe Time Can Fold 2017

“[Ours is] a colourful and amazing world where universes explode, space collapses into bottomless holes, time sags and slows near a planet, and the unbounded extensions of interstellar space ripple and sway like the surface of the sea” – Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ‘Maybe Time Can Fold’ connects different bodies of work which cross reference […]

Mixed media, Projects

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Ripples of Perception 2017

“I am a searcher…I always was…and I still am…searching for the missing piece” – Louise Bourgeois These gestural paintings in oil and mixed media on canvas, were completed over the past 24 months. Foremost concerned with painting as process, it is an exploration of colour, texture and mark making. There are references to landscapes, but […]

Mixed media, Projects

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Seven Looms of Silence 2017

“What is your guiding intuition?” I replied on the spur of the moment, “Making is thinking” – Richard Sennett Seven looms of Silence is a visual abstraction of a weaving loom that consist of seven units. The work was commissioned by the clothing brand Trenery for the launch of the Autumn/Winter 2017 collection. It was their […]

Installation, Mixed media, Projects, Site-Specific

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The painting chronicles 2016-2018

Painting, Projects

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BARBED WIRE PARADISE IS EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE 2017

“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.” ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space Barbed Wire Paradise Is Exactly Where You Are […]

Mixed media, Projects

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Greener Pastures / There are worlds out there 2016

“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.” ― Khushwant Singh, Delhi This two-part site-specific installation was concepsualised for “Coriolis Effect: Migration and Memory” in New Delhi. Much like viruses, ideas spread over national borders, infiltrate conversations and fluidly flits […]

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No More Worlds To Conquer 2016

“The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them.” – Charles Bukowski The title, No More Worlds To Conquer, does not refer to the fact that we’ve conquered all, but that the quest for ownership is not in fact the ultimate goal. Yellow is a colour of contradictory associations. It whispers of: sunshine, warmth […]

Mixed media, Projects

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BARBED WIRE PARADISE 2016

“Paradise, is exactly where you are right now, only much, much…better” – Language is a Virus (Laurie Anderson) Barbed wire paradise was an immersive drawing constructed in studio over a period of three months from over 40 000 pipe cleaners, a few pot plants, a handful of coins, a single musician and two swings. It […]

Mixed media, Projects

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The Space Between / The Noise Behind 2016

Billed as ‘The Space Between / The Noise Behind’ the show is a curious mix of art and quackery, or as Grobler puts it — ‘pseudo-science’. What both Grobler and O’Flynn recognise is that art is always provisional, intangible, that at best all it can do is piggy-back reason with feeling. – Ashraf Jamal, art […]

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Punctuating the Landscape at Guapamacataro 2015

Overview - Mexican Pink PDF photographer: Cesar Damian

Fibre Art, Projects, Site-Specific

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If you go down to the woods today 2015

Liza Grobler at Everard Read Gallery Cape Town “Perhaps, what one wants to say,” she wrote in her notebook, in firm and elegant cursive, “is formed in childhood, and the rest of one’s life is spent trying to say it.” - Barbara Hepworth (British sculptor)* Trying to make sense of Life – an ongoing experience that is [...]

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Playlist 2015

Playlist is a playful interpretation of a musical playlist. A colour experiment where music is the driving force behind the mark making and line direction. The playlist, “The best kicks against the pricks!”, was compiled by a friend and consists of a selection of rock and pop songs. It was listened to on repeat for [...]

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Decor-Z 2015

This collaborative exhibition offers an off-beat take on home decoration. Liza Grobler selected the work of five artists to create a space that is reminiscent of home, yet is somehow distorted, as if in a dream. Grobler weaves it all together with multiple connections: her fence-like constructions span the exterior and spill into the exhibition [...]

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Blindfolded Line, Dancing Through Time 2014

The moment a point is set in motion, a line is created. This line multiplied, creates a web or a network that constructs images or connects objects, people and places. Line is a basic element of traditional image making. When multiplied on a flat surface, it creates shape and once freed from the picture plane, [...]

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Kloofstreet World Design Capital 2014

ACCIDENTAL ART has been included as an official project in the World Design Capital Cape Town programme 2014. The second Accidental Art installation is a Half Square ceramic relief artwork by Liza Grobler, and marks the biggest Half Square piece to date, as well as the first exterior application of the ceramic art product. Nando's Kloof Street was [...]

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Honey Drops 2014

This temporary installation was conceived for the Winter Sculpture Show 2014 at the Nirox Foundation at the Cradle of Humankind. The work is titled Honey Drops and is constructed from 10 000 pipe cleaners. The form reference birds nest, organic structures and the colours of the surrounding landscape ins summer.

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Diary of a Nanosatellite 2013

Did you know that South Africa has a space programme? Africa's first nanosatellite was launched on 21 November 2013 from a small town in Russia. A nanosatellite is a very small satellite, only 10 x 10 x 10 cm, and this one was developed by the electrical engineering department at CPUT. ZACUBE-1 will orbit the earth 15 [...]

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White Termite Installation 2012

“The most perfect example of the group soul can be observed in our own bodies. The human body is composed of a number of organs, each connected by a visible or invisible thread to a central point, the brain. Each organ is in constant activity and has a separate purpose – at least the purpose [...]

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Mooi uitsig to Mooiuitsig 2012

Interactive artventure for HAWK 2012 executed with the assistance of Swain Hoogervorst and Hannah Paton. 2012 *The translation for 'mooi uitsig' is ‘beautiful view'. Mooiuitsig is also the name of the local community where the Penguin Kidz school is situated. Art Entrepeneur Lien Botha is the organisor and driving force behind the first Hangklip Art [...]

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Tjorts!/Cheers! 2012

Mixed media drawings (diasec) Tjorts!/Cheers! is a collection of drawings that celebrate small moments in everyday life. The drawings are based on a poem by Danie Marais. Cheers! The world is everything that is the case Wittgenstein said. Everything, however, rubbed me wrong for years I clenched my black heart childlike for revolution my teeth on [...]

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Crochet, Gym and Tonic 2011

Crochet, Gym and Tonic was a physical dialogue between a visual and performing artist in collaboration dancer Léan Coetzer. The performance spontaneously repeated every 30 minutes, 21 times over the course of a day. Grobler crocheted a piece from bra elastics whilst Coetzer experimented with small movements whilst strapped into the "vibromatic". Coetzer took her hip measurements [...]

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Sometimes, you have to kill your darlings 2010

The performance was conceived for a one-night event at the Bijou Art Studios in Observatory (Cape Town). Sometimes, you have to kill your darlings is based on a phrase often used by a former lecturer (Timo Smuts). It refers to the necessity to sometimes undo parts of (or an entire) artwork in order to successfully [...]

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Imagination (for humans) 2010

Imagination (for humans) formed part of the Laboratory for Recycled Revolutions curated by Isa Suarez at the Greatmore Art walk. This laboratory was an opportunity to nurture initiatives and express ideas in the vibrant Woodstock community. It was an interactive platform for creative invention, investigation & intervention about ‘recycling’ what we’ve learnt. Using text as a form [...]

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Visitor 2008 – 2009

An interactive exhibition at the UCT Irm Stern museum (Installation overview) The UCT Irma Stern Museum, or The Firs as she fondly called it, was the house of one of South Africa’s most renowned artists: Irma Stern. Here she lived, created and entertained. According to letters and anecdotes the late Stern was an inspiring and fiery [...]