In Toto Gallery will exhibit the work of Sue Martin in its final show of the year.
The gallery is one of the trendiest and most stylish new galleries in the city – and with a name meaning ‘to encompass everything’ – the gallery has got all styles and genres of local and international, as well as historical and contemporary works of art.
Currently on show at the gallery is Nina Torr’s, The End of Something, which explores the threshold at the end of a transition, and not knowing whether what comes next is welcome or not.
This exhibition comes to an end on 14 November, just in time to welcome the final exhibition of the year by Martin titled, Mapping Spaces.
The title refers to the element of migration and movement in Martin’s work, as well as her physical and contextual mapping out of a space, both in the actual artwork and in the image and process in her mind.
The Natal-born artist grew up in a rural area and after finding interest in the creative process, decided to study fine arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. “My quest to understand my identity as a white South African woman is a continuing theme in my work,” Martin noted about her work.
Megan Amy Scott, curator at In Toto Gallery, explained that this particular collection was made up of subject matter which offers a moment, within a greater movement or journey, of migrant labourers, farm workers and mine workers, which is the subject matter relevant to Martin’s observations of the ebb and flow of the rural workforce during her childhood.
Martin experiments with various media including photography, vintage prints and various surfaces. Working with Nathi Ndladla of the Phumani Paper Mill in a collaboration on the medium, Martin’s current series of work layers oil paint onto translucent handmade paper into which she has embedded vintage maps and, in some cases, plants.
This work makes its debut at In Toto Gallery on 17 November and runs only until 12 December.
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