Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained as part of a larger group of prints 2013.221- 263 from Caversham Press.

The Caversham Press was founded in 1985 in the Caversham Valley of KwaZulu-Natal to afford South African artists access to a professional collaborative printmaking studio for the production of traditional limited edition prints. The Press was the first comprehensive facility of its kind in Southern Africa and has become highly regarded not only for the range of processes it offers and the expertise of founder and print-master, Malcolm Christian, but also for its reputation as an accessible and collaborative art centre.

Peter Clarke (1929-) is a self-taught South African artist, a major figure of black modernism, an important commentator on everyday life and history in his country. Sometimes referred to as 'the quiet chronicler', his works are above all observations of humanity, place, patterns of behaviour, and interaction.

INIVA in London recently mounted a well-received retrospective of Clarke's work, underscoring his status as an important member of a generation that has been largely neglected, as interest in contemporary South African art has emerged. This is a quirky and hopeful work, that alludes to major politican transformations through the motif of a family or social visit.

Clarke is a writer as well as an artist, with a wry sense of humour, and a compelling personality. This print evokes baggage in its multiple senses, travel, impermanence, insecurity and exile - conditions of life for many South Africans over the span of his life, yet themes of global relevance.

Event Date 12/12/2013
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Serigraph print by Peter E. Clarke, titled 'Passing through', 2001. Edition 9/25. Inscribed 'Clarke/ '01/ Passing through'. Condition: Good
Event Date 12/12/2013
Author: maa