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 from Robyn Nesbitt, Artist Proof Studio Curator, The Bus Factory, 3 President Street, West Entrance, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Newtown/ PO Box 664, Newtown, 2113, Gauteng, Johannesburg.

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa studies the street life around him working from his studio at the Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artists Studios) in downtown Johannesburg. The women roasting mielies (corn) over coal-fired tin braziers on street corners, the wholesalers and hawkers selling cheap imports from the Far East, and urban workers. Mautloa has captured the feeling of moving through these streets, of making do with what is available, and the feeling of being swamped by the hustle and bustle of the big city.

His work hovers between figuration and abstraction, and this print at first appears abstract, yet two men, side by side, labourers of some kind, come into view.

Mautloa is one of a number of artists represented in the collection who studied at Rorke's Drift Art Centre, KwaZulu Natal; he later worked at the Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and is well representede in public collections across South Africa.

Event Date 23/8/2014
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Drypoint by Pat Mautloa titled 'Working together', 2011. Signed, dated and inscribed. Edition 6/20. Condition: Excellent
Event Date 23/8/2014
Author: maa