(Valerie Leigh: City of God. Oil on board)The Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg will host a solo exhibition in the Schreiner Gallery of recent works by Dr Valerie Leigh.
The context of this exhibition is based on two distinct features which the artist presents using frames.
Valerie Leigh explains that the works deal with two existing aspects of reality as she perceives it.
Works framed in plain or stained wood refer to the everyday circumstances of human life – birth, death, family, generation, and the demands of daily life.
In contrast, those works framed in neon (lumo) painted frames deal with a dimension of glory that is co-existent, but as yet unrealized or unperceived. The artist has based this depiction of the further dimension on an article dealing with First Temple Worship (c.1012 BC). This article was written by a friend whose permission she has obtained to use it.
The artist says that, apart from creating visual works, her intention is to draw people’s attention to the nature of everyday life and to assess the possibility of the glory in that which has been set aside and disregarded through custom. She wants to encourage people to consider with a perspective of greater depth the nature of the human condition.
Dr Leigh will conduct an interactive walkabout on August 22 from 14h30 to 15h30. In this walkabout she will reflect on the daily and spiritual elements that come to the fore in her exhibition. For bookings contact Thulani Makhaye at 033 392 2823 or Kobie Venter at 033 392 2819. There is safe parking with a car guard available on the Church Street side of the Gallery.
Lumo will be opened by Neil Huntley on August 16 at 18h00. It will run until October 7.
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