Artist, educator, curator & researcher · Co-Director, Ponte d’Arte
Glass, copper, silver, laser-cut steel, mesh & textile — a body of four neo-Gothic works
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Reflects de Villiers’ interest in the resurgent sensibility of Gothic aesthetics, which her research describes as manifesting in times of extreme flux and anxiety.
A body of work reflecting de Villiers’ ongoing interest in the structural relationship between people, rites and artefacts. She made five of the centre components before managing one without a stress fracture — the slow cooling in the kiln and the ratio between copper and glass is always a calculated risk.
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