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URL:https://www.afcapetown.co.za/events/exhibition-great-expectations/
SUMMARY:Exhibition: Great Expectations
DESCRIPTION:Art can be an act of atonement- a compensation for something al
 ready lost. A painter draws connections and ties the invisible threads bet
 ween things.\n\nFor Jacqueline Griffin-Jones these threads are drawn from 
 art history\, music\, literature and the world around her. Her paintings f
 orm a visual cage of references – both private and public– in an attem
 pt to address larger issues and themes of alienation\, fragility\, change 
 and chaos - concerns which are often universal .\n\nShe paints objects tha
 t are suspended across the real and abstract canvas to evoke a world turne
 d upside down-  a world of opposites and irreconcilable differences. Ther
 e is an interplay between the genres of still life and landscape\, where\,
  like a black hole\, they collapse into each other.\n\nBesides an ongoing 
 obsession with the landscape there is a fascination with the symbolic powe
 r of objects and things – useless stuff that clutters our lives. There
 ’s also a sense of history here\, in the worn carpets and domestic objec
 ts and temporality is present- the concern with time present and time past
 .\n\nGriffin-Jones seems to be examining the bonds to her own history and 
 her own country\, her own landscape in an attempt to make sense of it all.
 \n\nAlso on show are expressive studies of the sea and flowers from her ga
 rden inspired by a recent move from her home in Makhanda (a little frontie
 r town in the Eastern Cape) to St Francis Bay (a world twice removed from 
 this one).\n\nThis is her first exhibition since her last show at the Irma
  Stern Gallery in 2018. The exhibition runs from Thursday 7th December to
   30th January 2024. \n\n\nFIRST THURSDAYS : 6pm - 8.30pm\nMONDAY - FRID
 AY : 9.15am - 5.45pm\nSATURDAY : 19am - 1pm\n\n#alliancefrancaise #capetow
 n #firstthursday #capetownart #capetownartgallery #exhibition\n\n
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