Of the Hauk, Of the Rabet, Of the Bat

Of the Hauk / Of the Rabet / Of the Bat

ink drawing with screen printed type on paper

76cm x 56cm

2011

Available for view or sale at 34FineArt Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town.

34fineart.com

Found film

I found two rolls of film in my room a while ago. I didn't recognize them, but have lost a fair amount of film between the camera and processing so didn't think my not recognizing them was odd. I was excited to see which forgotten excursion the film belonged to and took them down to be processed. I then forgot that I had taken them down and only realized that these rolls were still waiting for me about a month later. Anyways, I finally fetched them today and they turned out not to belong to me at all... 

They belonged to an old friend of my grandparents, Professor Dave Richardson, whose cameras and assorted bric-a-brac my sister and I had inherited when he and his now late wife moved to a retirement village about a year ago. So these are his pictures. Some very beautiful shots.

Cape Town suburb mastheads

@Dale2sheds

HUH. Magazine SUBMISSION SUNDAY // Dale Lawrence

My work featured on HUH. Magazine's Submission Sundays. Check it and their other art related articles out here: http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/index.php?s=art&t=art, or click the post header to go straight to the feature!

Vredehoek and Athlone Towers 2010

Storms River Mouth, 2009

Schoenies 2009

Dave

Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

c.1910

Scope Magazine – Convention of Cranks

http://www.scope-mag.com/issues/spring-2011/convention-of-cranks/

If you're in Cape Town on Friday at 6 o'clock, drop past Haas Gallery in Bo-Kaap and have a look

Midtown

White lines of snow melting off the rooftops under bright winter morning sun.

A Coy Black Swan in Perth

a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan

A Chair with Pedersen+Lennard

This is a collaboration I did recently with industrial designers Luke Pedersen and James Lennard (of Pedersen+Lennard: www.pedersenlennard.co.za).

They were giving a talk at Toffie design festival in Cape Town (toffiepop.blogspot.com), and asked me to make a design for them to laser etch into the wood of a chair of theirs that was partially the subject of the talk.

The talk was centred around the issues with green companies. They are said to be a green company, but realise that the practicalities surrounding the term are not as simple and clearcut as it the label suggests.

Pedersen+Lennard is a furniture company specialising in flat-pack furniture, a style of furniture design that saves significant amounts in transport costs. They have also recently started importing Finnish birch to make their chairs, replacing the local but vastly inferior South African pine. This means the raw materials must travel thousands of kilometres to get to the place manufacture. On the positive side, the birch lasts far longer than our local pine, meaning fewer chairs need be made, and therefore fewer trees felled and transported; and birch grows is far more abundantly in Finland than the native hard wood trees do here, which are in short supply and struggling.

So we decided to embrace this confusion and lack of clarity, and the misleading nature of absolute terms, and to present a brown chair at the festival (not a green one).