Untitled (Saint)

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(Untitled) Saint 1110 x 700 mm Cotton thread, fabric and rubber (my work photographed by Kleinjan Groenewald)

“It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful and to strive for what is advantageous.”

-Saint Ambrose

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“Patience is the companion of wisdom” Saint Augustine

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Recent work available at…..

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I am delighted to inform you that I have some recent work available at MContemporary gallery!

She doesnt give a hoot, 450 x 280 x 80 mm cotton thread, batting and rubber 2019 Hannalie Taute

Untitled – Ophelia, 1620 x 700 mm cotton thread and rubber 2019 Hannalie Taute

Please contact the gallery director Louise Rush at louise@mcontemp.com for a full catalogue.

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Shit happens, 920 x 690 mm cotton thread and rubber 2019 Hannalie Taute

 

She never promised you a rose garden…

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This is one of those works that has gone through many transformations, but finds itself part of the Minutes to Midnight exhibition currently showing at 99 Loop gallery in Cape Town until the 27th of October! I started working on it in 2015. It is quite large…215 x 142 cm.

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Its inspired by a couple of things

*Childhood memories of an Afrikaans nursery rhyme we sang during a game we used to play, which goes like this:

“Koljander, Koljander so deur die bos,

my ma en pa kook lekker kos,

die kinders verstik aan n druiwe tros,

die laaste een se kop word af gekap…”

The English version is probably almost like “human-crocqhet”

but here follows a description of the one we used to play”

Koljander, Koljander so deur die bos

Twee spelers hou mekaar se hande in die lug vas terwyl die ander onderdeur moet loop. Die twee bepaal vooraf wie die lemoen en wie die suurlemoen gaan wees. Terwyl die spelers onderdeur die arms loop, sing die twee wat die arms omhoog hou ‘Koljander, Koljander so deur die bos. My ma en pa kook lekker kos, my boetie verstik aan ‘n druiwetros, die laaste een se kop word af gekap! Kiep, Kiep, Kiep Kap! Met die noem van Kap laat hulle dadelik hulle hande sak om die persoon wat op daardie stadium daar is toe te vou. Die gevangene word eenkant toe geneem en gevra waarvan hy hou, lemoene of suurlemoene, waarna hy agter daardie speler wat hy kies moet gaan staan.

Die speler wat gevang word, moet sy keuse tussen die twee maak sonder dat die ander spelers mag weet wat elk van die twee persone voorstel. As al die spelers klaar hulle keuses gemaak het, trek die twee spanne gewoonlik teen mekaar tou, en dit vind soos volg plaas, die twee spelers wat hulle arms omhoog gehou het, vat mekaar aan die voorarms vas terwyl elkeen se spanlede die speler voor hom om die lyf vashou. Die span wat eerste val is die verloorder.

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  • Teenage Trauma: I don’t want to talk about it now…

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and  * the title is inspired by the lyrics of song: Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson) – which I remember from a time growing up…… and I quote:

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be a little rain some time
When you take you gotta give so live and let live
Or let go oh-whoa-whoa-whoa
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

She never promised you a rose garden 215 x 142 cm 2018 (reworked) cotton thread and rubber

So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Love shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can

*Photographs of my work taken by : Kleinjan Groenewald

10 reasons …

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Why I decided to embroider on rubber….

because my life was hanging on a thread

because it makes ‘sew’ much sense

because I wanted to tread lightly and use what was available

because I needed a challenge

because the act of sewing is meditative

because i fell in love with the process

because rubber is tough and can be seen as masculine

because thread is delicate and an be seen as feminine

because i like the juxtaposition of thread and rubber

because nothing is what it seems.

No Escape

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No Escape 190 x 88 cm

Dear friends,

Just to inform you: the group exhibition Bank 001: Emerging Contemporaries at In Toto gallery has been extended until 13 April 2018.

If you’d like to receive a digital catalogue of all the works on view, feel free to request one from sallyrumball@gmail.com

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Wishing you a great weekend xxx