Author: hannalietaute
Woordfees/ Strauss & Co. Artist benefit auction
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“Sometimes the wife needs a break” want #dishoogtyd
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“You will become a real boy if you deserve it” want #dishoogtyd
Have been selected for the Woordfees / Strauss & Co. Artist benefit Auction and Exhibition.
The exhibition will be up in the Stellenbosch Town Hall from 3 to 11 October, and open daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The auction is already ongoing on the Strauss & Co. website and the first bids are coming in online. The live auction will take place on 10 October at 11:00
Here is a link to the auction https://www.straussart.co.za/auctions/details/536-10-oct-2026
Mooi Nooi en Size Matters in Klyntji
press, Studio newsDaar het onlangs ‘n artikel in die ‘Klyntji’ verskyn met die titel: “Mooi Nooi: die vele lewens van Noitjie van die Onderveld” waarin skrywer Karolien van Zyl melding maak van my werk wat ook ingesluit was in haar uitstalling ‘Mooi Nooi: sculpting identity – art, nationalism and womanhood, in 2025 as deel van haar meestersgraad aan die Universiteit van Witwatersrand.
Dit is ‘n histories insiggewende skrywe waarin sy, Anton van Wouw se Noitjie, historiese voorwerpe, argief materiaal en kontemporere kunswerke met mekaar in gesprek bring. ‘Size matters’ was deel van hierdie uitstalling.
“Size Matters verbeel nuwe moontlikhede vir Afrikanervroulikheid. Noitjie staan nie meer alleen op haar voetstuk nie, maar word opgeneem in ’n uitbundige wêreld van plante, diere en liggaamlikheid. ’n Wêreld wat wemel van lewe. Die ingetoënheid van Van Wouw se beeld maak plek vir oorvloed en transformasie. Soos haar vele lewens getuig, is Noitjie se geskiedenis een van voortdurende herlesing.”
Lees gerus die volledige skrywe op Klyntji se webblad: https://klyntji.com/joernaal/2026/8/21/noitjie-van-die-onderveld
(Klyntji.com bestaan van 2014 af en is ’n onafhanklike webjoernaal wat fokus op diverse en progressiewe kuns en kultuur.)
They are not talking at this talking therapy group
Art portfolio- my work
I imagined this group as a therapy session going nowhere. Everyone was there. Everyone was listening, yet no one said a word. The masks turned out that way on their own – One too cheerful, one completely blank, and one somewhere in between. I stitched the thread between them like a thought that keeps moving – polite, circling, a thought that never quite reaches completion. It is funny and also a little sad. We sit together, we mean well, and somehow we still miss each other.
‘They are not talking at this talking therapy group’ is currently included in a group exhibition titled: ‘Tomorrow is listening’ at Rus-en-Vrede gallery until 8 August 2026.
Tomorrow is listening – You are invited!
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Herewith is a sneak peek of my work which will be included in the group exhibition titled: ‘Tomorrow is listening’, curated by Tamaryne S.P. Bimray. This exhibition is scheduled to open at Rust-en-Vrede gallery in Durbanville, on Saturday 18 July at 11h00 – and it runs until the 8th of August 2026. You are invited!
Note from the curator: “Tomorrow is Listening, grapples with and unpacks the idea that memories can be shaped by our own choices today yet culturally experienced in so many meaningful ways. It transcends time, space and even knowing oneself. Through visual manifestation (like an artwork), our relationship with time becomes memory that is re-experienced when engaged by others. This exhibition will bring together a selection of artists whose artistic practices and conceptual themes engage with these experimental dialogues of time and interpretations of memory as expression.”