Earth Song: Keeping Time
A group exhibition at Cape Gallery
Earth Song: Keeping Time brings together an extensive selection of South African artists in a group exhibition exploring the relationship between nature, memory and artistic expression through painting, graphics, ceramics and sculpture.
Presented at Cape Gallery, the exhibition considers the poetic connection between tactile, visual and auditory experience — earth, image and song. The title suggests a dialogue between materiality and rhythm, where colour, form, tone and texture function much like melody and tempo within music.
The exhibition reflects on humanity’s connection to the natural world and considers how ecology, biodiversity and environmental change continue to shape contemporary experience. Through landscapes, figurative works, ceramics, sculpture and graphic processes, participating artists respond to moments observed, remembered and emotionally felt within nature.
Visitors are encouraged to experience each artwork as a kind of visual anthem — a personal response to changing seasons, shifting light and the fragile rhythms of the environment.
The exhibition features works by Kamie Brodie, Heidi Burstein, Jean Campbell, Elinor Carleton-Smith, Cheryl Curnick, Sarah Danes-Jarrett, Peter Gray, Michelle Hamman-Wright, Bridget Heneck, Juli Jana, Karin Kruger, Mandy McKay, Nola Muller, Jenny Parsons, Roelof Rossouw, Frederike Stokhuyzen, Louis Stroh van der Walt, Lize van der Walt, Mandla Vanyaza, Karyn Walters, Judy Woodborne, Natalia Kononova, Katrin Dorje, David Kuijers, Zan Louw, B. Ernest Manfunny, Sheila Petousis, Helmut Starke, Ardmore, Tania Babb and John Bauer.
