Ateljeebesoeke: GUS-galery

GUS-galery, hoek van Dorp- en Birdstraat

Kabous Hanslam

Kabous Hanslam is ’n kontemporêre kunstenaar wat spesialiseer in skilderkuns en beeldhou. Sy werk ondersoek die queer liggaam as “houkamer” met ingangswonde na herinnering, begeerte en skaamte.

Ron Sauerman

Ron Sauerman is ’n boekbinder en kunstenaar wat meestal met skilderkuns en boekmaak werk. Sy praktyk ondersoek die liggaam deur middel van gevonde materiale, voorwerpe en boekstrukture. Sy werk is gewortel in sy transmanlike ervaring en ondersoek hoe liggame gelees en beleef word deur vel, tekstuur, kwesbaarheid en die ruimtes wat ons lywe inneem.

Ulriche Jantjes

Ulriche Jantjes gebruik skilderkuns en drukwerk om te besin oor erfenis en identiteit, soos dit in plek manifesteer. Met haar wortels in Elim, ’n Morawiese sendingdorp in die Overberg, trek sy blywende maar vloeibare verbindings tussen dié landskap en haar gevoel van erfenis en behoort. Jantjes se werk is diep persoonlik, maar deur haar peinsende uitbeeldings in olieverf bereik dit ook ’n gevoel van die universele en byna mitiese, en nooi die kyker om oor hulle eie plek, verlede en hede na te dink.

Vincent Engelbrecht

Vincent Engelbrecht gee sy idees lewe deur drukkuns en sketse, veral deur koperplaat-etswerk. Sy werk ondersoek die droomwêreld en magiese realisme. Hy maak sy idees ’n werklikheid met liggaamlike ervarings en glo aan die geïnternaliseerde wysheid van die hand.

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GUS gallery, corner of Dorp and Bird Street

Kabous Hanslam

Kabous Hanslam is a contemporary artist specialising in painting

and sculpture. His work interrogates the queer body as "houkamer" (holding room) with entry wounds to memory, desire, and shame.

Ron Sauerman

Ron Sauerman is a bookbinder and fine artist working across painting and bookmaking. His practice explores the body through found materials, objects and book structures. Rooted in his transmasculine experience, his work examines how bodies are read and felt through skin, texture, vulnerability and the spaces our bodies take up.

Ulriche Jantjes

Ulriche Jantjes employs painting and printmaking to reflect on heritage and identity, as manifested in place. With roots in Elim, a Moravian mission settlement in the Overberg, she draws abiding yet fluid connections between this terrain and her sense of heritage and belonging. Her work is deeply personal, but through her ruminative rendering in oils, it also achieves a sense of the universal and almost mythical, inviting the viewer to contemplate their own place, past and present.

Vincent Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht brings his ideas to life through printmaking and drawing, especially copperplate etching. His work explores the dream world and magical realism. He makes his ideas a reality through bodily experiences and believes in the internalized wisdom of the hand.