During their year-long artist residency, Fisher and Myburgh bonded over their commonalities and differences alike and, in the spirit of the Studio Bursary, both collaborated and engaged critically with one another’s practices.
Process and memory are central to Myburgh’s (@nadia_lailam) textured works which emerge through her spontaneous engagement with different mediums. Her output includes embroidery and paint on mesh, video and anthotype. Reflecting on her experience at Bag Factory, Myburgh says, “It made me realize that I really just need to follow my instinct and follow my intuition when creating because at the end of the day, the work leads you.” On embracing experimentation, she adds, “It was very surprising for me to see where I started and where I am now.”
Fisher (@kayleigh_d_fisher) works in charcoal, chalk and watercolour, her influences ranging from historical painters like Salvador Dali to pavement photographs from Johannesburg and Cape Town the 1930s – ‘60s. Of her visual language and practice she says, “I am very much intrigued with consciously looking at things and I want to inspire others to also consciously consume.” The subjects of her arresting work repeat and overlap, looking out in more than one direction – multitudinous, deconstructed figures who seem to exist outside of time.
Attend a walkabout and zine workshop to meet the artists as they reflect on their 12-month residency at Bag Factory and the works in Embodied & Embedded on Sat, Sep 16 from 10:00 – 12:00.
