art delivery : 02.19.24

This is a pretty big week for me, as Thursday marks 15 YEARS since I started ‘The Jealous Curator’!? Time flies when you’re loving art! As a little celebration, and a thank you for being on this ride with me, I’ll be sending the newsletter to everyone all week (it’ll also show the FREE subscribers what 3 bucks a month gets you!) :

Now this is my kind of bouquet! These beautiful sculptures are the work of Cape Town based artist, and lecturer at Michaelis School of Fine Art, Stephané E. Conradie:

“… Her research stems from a fascination with how people categorise and arrange objects in their homes, particularly her own family members in both Namibia and South Africa. Conradie creates ornate sculptures of entangled objects, inspired by home décor found in lower and working class homes in South Africa. Though seemingly only used for aesthetic purposes or seen as common place, Conradie suggests that they could provide an important lens through which to examine value placement and meaning-making. Her work examines the histories of colonialism and creolisation embedded in domestic material culture, calling into question how identity is encoded in the private domain ...”

Aaaaand now I love these pieces even more. You can find Stephané on Instagram at @steph.edith.

This » “Nothing wrong with a first rodeo, in fact, how delightful! You don’t need to love ‘change’ to appreciate it. First things are good things because you learn a load… otherwise you’d die of boredom.” ~ Rachel Castle

Yeehaw, indeed! Happy Monday ~ Danielle