ANON. Pop Up Gallery

20/09/2021

ANON. Pop Up Gallery updated their address.

ANON. Pop Up Gallery updated their address.

20/09/2021

Artist feature: Jenna Burchell⁠
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Born in Pietermaritzburg (1985), Jenna Burchell studied at University of Pretoria for a Fine Arts degree. She currently lives in Pretoria and ventures out for exhibitions, commissions and residencies around SA, UK and Europe.⁠
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Her artistic practice in the ongoing project entitled Songsmith (2015 to present) brings together found natural artefacts, like ancient rocks (Songsmith: Karoo and Songsmith: Cradle of Humankind) and animal skulls (Songsmith: Fragile Homes), and embeds them with sound through the Japanese reparation technique of kintsukuroi ("golden repair").⁠
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The sound is an archive of place and memory, which the golden repair or 'Songsmith' activates. The sounds in these particular works are recorded from the ground using GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) at the site of the vessel's location. They are revealed to the viewer when a hand is placed near the golden seam.⁠
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Read an interview with the artist and Sarah Jayne Fell-Aherin on Lifestyling.co.za at the link:
https://lifestyling.co.za/culture/2021/08/songsmith-jenna-burchell/⁠
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Jenna's Songsmith (Karoo) is part of the permanent collection at Spier Arts Trust at Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch.
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27/11/2020

Supporting Rohan Bloom Foundation with this auction artwork by Kilmany-Jo Liversage Artist, created for RISE by ANON. this time last year

AUCTION ITEM!

Painting on paper by Kilmany – Jo Liversage titled – (Price Guide: R35,000.00)

Starting bid: R20,000.00

BROWSE & BID HERE: www.rohanbloom.clickauction.co.za
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10/08/2020

She had a name. Performance piece by Carin Bester honouring the 2695 women killed in South Africa in just one year, or 7.5 per day. View the full piece from the link on Carin's profile.

31/03/2020

A global art competition in response to COVID-19 by Amplifier.

Art can heal, art can save lives, and art can bring us together even while we are apart. It can be a compass to guide us through this storm.
In response to COVID-19, we are launching an emergency campaign with top art curators and public-health advisors from around the world. In the month of April we will be awarding $30,000 to artists, with selections announced weekly and awards on every continent.
We are looking for two kinds of work: The first are public health and safety messages that can help flatten the curve through education. The second are symbols that help promote mental health, well-being, and social change work during these stressful times.
These symbols will stand long after the virus is gone as a testament to our resilience. Please join us in this historic moment by submitting at bit.ly/globalopencall

10/03/2020

Art Activism & the Gender-based Violence Protests in South Africa

For the recent Salonfestival Cape Town 2020 event, ANON. curator Sarah Jayne Fell presented on Art Activism. Here's the gist of the presentation shared in an article on Medium. Featuring artwork and photography by Pony of the Sea - Katya Wagner, Nicky Newman Photography, Kilmany-Jo Liversage, Grace Cross, Carin Bester, Ayanda Ndamane, Richard Winterand Lindeka Qampi.
https://medium.com//art-activism-the-gender-based-violence-protests-in-south-africa-22af3563e8f5

“For most of history Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf

05/03/2020

We still have a few bags left from the We See You series created during last year's protests against Gender-Based Violence in Cape Town. Read about it below... R150 each. We have 2 left in cotton and 16 in hessian. Order on our website or DM for details. Proceeds to Nonceba Family Counselling Centre in Khayelitsha.

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Days before the gathering against Gender Based Violence on 4 September 2019, Caitlin and Natasha realized they hadn’t seen any visual representation of solidarity with the movement, only a couple of hashtags and a suggestion that those attending the demonstration should dress in black.

The photograph of Uyinene Mrwetyana used most broadly across all media platforms was one of her wearing a black beret. With the momentum of the movement gathering at the rate it was, the symbolism of a black beret felt important. Uyinene woke South Africa up, and her face had become the symbol of the need for change – she emerged as a single representative for the many thousands who are not seen.

Over the course of that night, Natasha and Caitlin worked on creating the image and its message. In the original photograph, Uyinene is smiling. Removing her mouth from the image and replacing it with text at once represents the loss of her voice, which was stolen, but the word being the collective “we” represents solidarity – by standing together, South Africans are demanding that the staggering frequency of rape and murder be brought down. With her eyes being the only remaining facial feature depicted, we harness the strength of the visual. We as a nation cannot afford to turn our gaze away from this reality any longer.

The artwork also allowed those not able to be physically present at the demonstration to show solidarity with the groundswell.

Uyinene’s uncle has said that the family believes she has been made “a sacrificial lamb”. We see her. We see you. We see all the slain women whose stories go untold. We see the men who perpetrate these crimes. We see the men who call out @ Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa

16/02/2020

See Carin Bester on Tuesday evening at Salonfestival on our panel discussion, Art + Activism: imagery for social change. (Tickets on Quicket.) Carin Bester is a performance artist and actor whose striking protest imagery from the recent marches against gender-based violence and femicide is featured on the Rise exhibition, on now at 44 on Long. She trained in method acting in Pretoria.⁠
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You can also see Carin perform live today at a free show on in Observatory's Theatre Arts Admin Collective at 16h30, Till Death do us Part.⁠
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15/02/2020

ANON. Pop Up Gallery updated their business hours.

ANON. Pop Up Gallery updated their business hours.

15/02/2020

See Andy Mason, aka N.D.Mazin, this Tuesday at the opening event of Salonfestival Cape Town 2020. N.D.Mazin is South Africa's longest-standing underground cartoonist who has recently transitioned into visual art. His artwork on the Rise exhibition incorporates cartoons he created for legal publication, "Street Law: Practical Law for South Africans" illustrating case studies that set precedent for laws on gender. He is also the author of "What’s So Funny?", the definitive history of South African cartooning.⁠
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Artist statement:⁠
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Anima Luna: Complicity And The Wound ⁠
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The UN’s 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children 2019 campaign coincided with an urgent SA government and civil society response to our country’s horrifying femicide crisis. Cape Town’s Anon Pop-up Art Show group, curated by Sarah Jayne Fell, responded with an exhibition that just kept going, moving from Salt River to Long Street, eventually featuring more than 50 artists. I was privileged to be one of the few male artists invited to participate. ⁠
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In addition to my exhibition piece, Complicity and the Wound, I also made a 58-second Instagram video with the same title and posted a series of 16 Drawings About Gender on Instagram. These drawings, four of which featured in my work on the show, were produced for the 2015 consolidated 30th anniversary edition of Street Law, which I first began illustrating in the 1980s. ⁠
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A new version of the work, featuring all 16 drawings and the larger-scale Anima Luna painting (84 X 122 cms)will be exhibited at a SalonFestival Cape Town event focusing on Art and Activism, to be held at the Long Street venue, 44 on Long, on February 18, 2020. The event includes autobiographical presentations by performance artist Carin Bester, photographer Nicky Newman, curator Sarah Jayne Fell and myself.⁠
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@ Long Street Cape Town Cbd

14/02/2020

Join Nicky Newman on our Salonfestival panel discussion on Tuesday evening on Art + Activism: imagery for social change. Nicky has a long career in the space, from documentary filmmaking to more recently photography documenting protests in Cape Town, such as these seen here. Tickets on Quicket.

In her own words:
I studied Journalism and Media at Rhodes University as well as an Honors degree in Psychology in the politically heated 1980s, was active in anti-apartheid student organizations and edited the student newspaper, Rhodeo.

My career started in print, working for newspapers and magazines in South Africa, London and Hong Kong. I started production company See Thru Media in 1993 and soon found my way into factual television, producing, directing, shooting and editing documentaries and awareness raising films for NGOs and educational institutions as well as feature length broadcast films on topics that we researched and proposed.

I flirted with fiction filmmaking for a time, attending the prestigious Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam with a feature film script as writer/director as well as being selected for the 10 commandments feature film collaboration between the Binger, the National Film and Video Foundation and the SABC. I was also selected for the first Berlin Talent Campus. .
Our TV, documentary and filmmaking industries were being formed and I got involved starting with the Film and Allied Workers Organization (FAWO). For many years I taught film production to women in developing countries especially during my four years as the Vice President of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television. I was also a board member of Women In Film and Television SA. For the last 6 years, I've run the documentary filmmaking course at City Varsity and guest lecture at CPUT and Big Fish.

​The last few years I have concentrated on stills photography. My work has been published in books, magazines and on websites and educational media. I've had work shown in both solo and group exhibitions in Cape Town and at Somerset House in London and I was recently short listed for the Zeiss Award.

@ Long Street, Cape Town RSA

13/02/2020

See the inimitable Lindeka Qampi at Salonfestival, opening on Tuesday evening at 44 on Long with our artists panel discussion, Art + Activism: Imagery for Social Change (tickets on Quicket).⁠
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Internationally recognised for her multimedia work that uses the camera as a tool for fighting inequality, homophobia and xenophobia, Lindeka believes in creative expression for healing or therapy, as a channel that gives voice to the voiceless. ⁠
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Lindeka Qampi began her career in photography in 2006 with community-based photo collective Iliso Labantu, documenting daily life in different townships to share social issues.⁠
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She studied Photojournalism at Michaelis in 2008 and at Marketing Photo Workshop in 2011.⁠
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In 2012 she worked with Zanele Muholi documenting hate crimes using photography to fight homophobia. Together they toured schools around the country introducing photography as a life skill and empowering tool for young women, with the aim for including it in the school curriculum for those who cannot afford to go to university.⁠
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In 2015 she began to turn the lens onto herself, creating multimedia work using photography, video, poetry, song and installation (as seen at the ANON. debut exhibition in Feb 2019.)⁠
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More recently she began a programme called Limise, facilitating creative groupwork to assist those looking for healing by sharing methods combining photography, poetry and art as a means of healing through self expression. ⁠
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Seen here: 1 to 3 are self-portrait images created by Lindeka in her series "Inside My Heart" (seen on ANON. 01). 4 to 8 are drawings by Lindeka, as seen on ANON. 02, Rise exhibition, along with 9-10, which are images by Asiphe Plaatjie and Nikiwe Xhakhwe, from her groupwork with Limise.⁠
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@ Long Street, Cape Town RSA

11/02/2020

We're honoured to be hosting the opening event for the new-to-Cape Town SALONFESTIVAL – "Art & Activism: Imagery for social change" – a panel discussion with four of our artists on the Rise exhibition, alongside curator and founder of ANON., Sarah Jayne Fell.

Date & venue: , next Tues 18 Feb 5.30pm until 7pm followed by a documentary screening of award-winning SA film, Drummies.

The artists on the panel have been selected for the diversity of mediums through which they choose to express their personal form of art activism and for their unique and unparalleled work in this space.

Tickets available on Quicket or via Salon Festival Cape Town on Facebook.

Without further ado, we proudly present:

Lindeka Qampi - visual artist and activist whose work as a street photographer in Khayelitsha led to her turning the camera to herself. She uses creative self-expression as a means of healing, both from her own trauma and in her groupwork with other women, Limise, which is part of a larger and ongoing project with Prof. Zanele Muholi.

Carin Bester – performance artist and activist who studied Method Acting in Pretoria, whose protest performance art has a particular focus on gender-based violence and femicide. She also works in other mediums such as sculpture and printmaking on the same topic, all of which can be seen on the Rise exhibition.

Andy Mason - aka N.D.Mazin is South Africa's longest-standing underground cartoonist who has also transitioned into visual art. His piece on the Rise exhibition incorporates cartoons he created for legal publication, "Street Law: Practical Law for South Africans" illustrating case studies that set precedent for laws on gender. Andy is also the author of "What’s So Funny?", the definitive history of South African cartooning.

Nicky Newman - her work as a photojournalist has been critical in capturing South African protest movements of recent years. In the past she worked as a documentary-maker and director of TV series, winning Best Woman Director at Vue de Afrique for "Simon and I", the earliest South African documentary on black gay rights activists.
@ 44 on Long (old New Space Theatre)

08/02/2020

Join performance artist Carin Bester, as seen on the RISE exhibition extended and also on the programme of Salonfestival Cape Town: Art & Activism - imagery for social change, next weekend at a 2-show theatre performance in Observatory.

Free to attendees of the Art & Activism salon.

06/02/2020

RISE exhibition opening photos by photographer Nicky Newman from First Thursdays Cape Town.

The show is open until the end of Feb, so pop around if you missed the opening! Open week-daily 10am to 5pm and also available to see during any other 44 on Long event happening in the evening, including their open Thursday evening music jam sessions!

Join us on the evening of Tuesday the 18th for the opening Salonfestival Cape Town event Art & Activism - imagery for social change, where we'll have a panel discussion between curator Sarah Jayne Fell and artists Lindeka Qampi, Nicky Newman Photography, Carin Bester and Andy Mason (cartoonist N.D.Mazin).

30/01/2020

Many events would not be possible without great partners. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Wetink Fine Art Cape Town for coming on board as a printing sponsor for the RISE exhibition. Not only did they sponsor fine art printing of most of the protest photography on the show as well as all exhibition posters, they also offered all of our artists a discount on printing their artwork.

Throughout the process the small team at Wetink has been a pleasure to deal with - fantastic customer service (always personable, always on time!) and even more amazing print quality (for some of the best prices you'll find at fine art quality in Cape Town!)

All work seen here was printed by Wetink – and you can see it all in person if you pop into 44 on Long during the week, as the exhibition is up until 28 Feb. Thanks again Wetink!

@ Wetink Fine Art Cape Town

28/01/2020

. A brave campaign and photography series by Lisa Adams, September 2019⁠
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www.sayhisname.co.za⁠
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Synopsis⁠
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This is an artistic expression of real women with real stories about who their abusers are.⁠
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Through my own journey of sexual assault one of the major components has been realising the power that there is for some victims in sharing their stories.⁠
Unmasking the shame, rejecting it and handing it back over to their offenders.⁠
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South Africa’s Gender Based Violence stats show that the majority of sexual offences against women are committed by men that they know.⁠
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SayHisName hopes to use this protest art as a mechanism for social consciousness.⁠
We need to stop shying away from this conversation.⁠
We need to start getting uncomfortable and listening to stories.⁠
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There are various messages to be seen when you look at these photos, and narratives to be heard. Take it all in, breathe and find your conviction in making your stance clear.⁠
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The campaign hopes to encourage victims of sexual offences to find the spaces that are safest to them to start liberating themselves from the self-perceived shame, the burden of the secrets and take a stance to hold offenders accountable.⁠
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The narrative of strength needs to be recognised in vulnerability. Let’s start destroying the shame in telling our stories.⁠
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LISA ADAMS⁠
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As seen at RISE – An exhibition by ANON. Pop Up Art Show - Inspired by the September 2019 protests against gender-based violence.⁠
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24 October 2019 to 28 February 2020⁠
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www.anonpopup.com⁠
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@ Long Street Cape Town Cbd

27/01/2020

What's on in Cape Town today? Anon Pop-Up Gallery

On CapeTalk Breakfast Show: Africa Melane talks to Sarah Jayne Fell about ANON. Pop Up Gallery and the current show, RISE, on at 44 on Long and upcoming Salonfestival Cape Town event Art & Activism - imagery for social change.

http://www.capetalk.co.za/podcasts/121/weekend-breakfast-with-africa-melane/282527/whats-on-in-cape-town-today-anon-pop-up-gallery