The Garden.
Located in front of the art fair entrance the Idea behind the garden program is to feature larger-than-life sculpture work which captures the imagination of the public from afar and thus opens the interaction with the work itself and the fair through this medium.
Being an outdoor feature, The Garden Program, therefore, allows for endless possibility in terms of size of work and expression.
Our first Artist in the Garden.
Jessica Bothma,
born in Durban, 1991
Jessica Bothma is a South African, Durban-based sculptor, writer, and curator. She studied at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) and has engaged in numerous industry apprenticeships which have greatly contributed to her technical and conceptual training. She has also taken part in various group exhibitions in South Africa.
Bothma’s creative production involves sculpture, drawing, and poetry and her themes and language explore; identity (place and people in South Africa), memory, history, dreams, power, gender, the environment and materials as metaphors.
Tea Lady, 2021, Galvanised powder-coated mild steel, 2.7m x 1.5m x 1.3m
Tea Lady, 2021 (Detail)
domkrag as verdwaalde liefde (South African mating song) 2020