Marinda du Toit

They say something like : All work and no play makes one …(insert word)……, but at the KKNK we played as hard as we worked and vice a versa.

One of the reasons I love exhibiting at the arts festival is the interaction. Meeting new people. Discussions. Conversations. New friendships being formed. Now I understand why my colleague Robert Hamblin referred to the artists exhibiting at last years festival as family; because after 7 days it feels like being part of a family. Thank you Robert for these snapshots!

Here I am with my Crown-Prince. My husband, muse, friend, lover, critic, support, father of our children, and the one who help me hang the exhibition!

The princess and her tea.

Luckily my venue was at such a good spot that I could enjoy some tea/coffee very often and be right there at my space.

Having a great time with fellow artists and friends

From left to right: Robert Hamblin (front), Hennie Meyer, me as Goldilocks was a mouse, and Marinda du Toit aka Johanna Brandt.

The druid left his cubicle to visit me at my ‘rubber kingdom’.

I am a huge admirer of the work by Willem Boshoff, and it was an honour to finally meet him. He was one of the main festival artists. His show was called : Big druid in his cubicle. See more here

At Willem’s BUSH braai. From left to right: Stephan Erasmus, Ferdinand Bruwer, Willem Boshoff, myself and Gordon Froud

here I am with artist Gordon Froud

Another artist I admire is Gordon Froud. He was like Willem Boshoff another one of the main festival artists….There were 3 this year! His show was called: a Retrospective of exhibitions I never had. You can read more here.

and here is another festival selfie….

Here I am with Robert Hamblin (front) and Roelof Petrus van Wyk

I had many interesting conversations with these two gentleman. Check out Robert’s work here, and Roelof’s work here.

Last but not least: A picture taken by Ferdinand Bruwer of this years KKNK festival art curator Sandra Hanekom in my venue (Rubber Kingdom 😉 )

Sandra Hanekom : curator for this years visual art at the KKNK

You can read an interview with Sandra Hanekom here.

Feeling so nostalgic looking at these…..great memories were created!! Thank you all xx

On Sunday evening we returned home after the 20^th ABSAKKNK (Klein Karoo National Arts Festival). I have been feeling a bit like Cinderella due to all the homework and laundry I’m faced with- but I am NOT complaining, since I had a fantastic time!

While still feeling overwhelmed with the amazing positive response to my show, which I am very grateful for, I decided to start posting in the weeks to follow slowly bit by bit thoughts, feelings and images here regarding my solo exhibition: Rubber Ever After and the whole festival experience. So much happened in that week from the 29^th of March to the 5^th of April that it will be best to do small blog entries to make sense of it all….watch this space!

The above video came about when Marinda du Toit aka Johanna Brandt invited me to participate with her in a performance since we were the only two females on the main festival program. For her exhibition: Johanna Brandt die Klein Karoo. Marinda du Toit decided to burn something every day for the duration of the festival. So needles to say: she decided she wanted to burn some rubber….and voila – my first two person performance!

Apart from having a lot of fun, I gained a lot of experience by being part of a performance while being in front of a camera. Watching and learning how another artist approach something like this!

See more of Marinda’s work here:

http://kknk.co.za/visuele-kunsgalery/marinda-du-toit/

and her some of her previous video work here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsm-VM2_Phw&feature=youtu.be