The Gallery at Grande Provence is privileged to present an exhibition of new work by MJ Lourens. This exhibition will include landscape paintings and a series of bronze sculptures.

The landscapes are greatly inspired by Highveld scenes. Although fictitious in nature, they establish the background to various familiar contemporary structures. The works reflect a time of day, just before sunset, that has as result a romantic, yet surreal nature.

The sculptures are grounded in the human figure with themes relating to the ocean. The aquatic aspect references strongly to the subconscious and the addition of suggestive symbolic elements, that support the theme, create a haunting outcome.

A combination of the figurative sculptures and the landscapes enforce the tension between nature and the intention of mankind.

The Project Room

Unnatural Selection

Henning Ludeke explores dissociation caused by Virtual Spaces.

Within the context of consumerism, Henning tries to find ways of transposing online commercial media into tangible, tactile spaces. He collages images from virtual shoe stores - which he refers to as an "Unnatural Selection" - into organic forms that resemble butterflies. The digital prints that result from this evolutionary process, remind us to re-integrate our online experiences with everyday life; we need to remain or become grounded again.

The Shop

To free the distance between

The work of Jean Dreyer investigate immanence and the intensities of freedom experienced between body and landscape when the constraints of distance are erased.

Her exploration inspire the painted wood carvings that she creates to indicate the connection between land and body, supporting her conviction that separation from the land instigates alienation, dissociation and landlessness. Only by freeing the confines of distance, transcendence can be broken and the association between the physical human form and the land become accessible to establish an awareness of belonging.

A selection of her work, themed "to free the distance between", can be viewed in 'The Little Gallery'.