Represented artists Jo Roets and Zanoxolo Sylvester Mqeku are included in "CLAY FORMES, contemporary clay from South Africa", a publication edited and researched over two years by art historian, and founder of Art Formes, Olivia Barrell.
“I had to be intentional about how I wanted to put the publication forward. It wouldn’t have been possible to include all contemporary South African artists working with ceramics or clay, so I had to limit it to 30 artists. I wanted to expand pre-conceived notions of the medium, illustrating its various forms such as porcelain, terracotta, stoneware and earthenware – alongside the more experimental uses of the material such as air-dried and wild clay. Artist Jo Roets, for example, creates her own medium which is closer to paper than it is to earth. Whereas sculptor, Ledelle Moe moves the material towards the monumental through her integration of earth and concrete to prolific proportions. And the medium is radically transformed through Belinda Blignaut who is a global pioneer of unprocessed, wild clay.”
- Olivia Barrell from an interview with Grace Crooks for Connect Everything Collective.
Both Jo Roets and Zanoxolo Sylvester Mqeku are StateoftheART Award winners (2018 and 2021 respectively), holding their debut solo exhibitions Mantra Mãe and Birth of the Alter Natural at StateoftheART in Cape Town.
View the artist profile and available work of Jo Roets
View the artist profile and available work of Zanoxolo Sylvester Mqeku
For more information and to buy the book "CLAY FORMES, contemporary clay from South Africa" visit Art Formes
