Artist, educator, curator & researcher · Co-Director, Ponte d’Arte
Community collaboration · with the Intuthuko Embroiderers · 2011–12
A collaborative hand-embroidered labyrinth made by Celia de Villiers with the Intuthuko Embroidery Collective — shown in TRANSCODE, the intermedia exhibition and doctoral research of Gwenneth Miller.
Image to come(Missing info)Synchronic Journey is a collaborative labyrinth, hand-embroidered by Celia de Villiers with the Intuthuko Sewing Group, the community collective she founded near Johannesburg. It joins her studio practice to the long community-embroidery work that runs through her career.
The work was made for, and shown in, TRANSCODE — Dialogues Around Intermedia Practice, curated by Prof. Gwenneth Miller at the UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria (7–30 September 2011) as part of her DLitt et Phil thesis, Modelling an Innovative Approach to Intermediality within Visual Art Practice in South Africa. De Villiers was artist and project director of the Synchronic Journey contribution.