Exhibitions | C4C Arts

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Ndabuko Ntuli

Email: ndabuko.ntuli@gmail.com

Face of Liberty, Ndabuko Ntuli, 96.5cm x 131.7cm, mixed medium

Tell us a bit about yourself?

My name is Ndabuko Ntuli, I reside in Johannesburg but originally from the Kwa Zulu Natal , East Coast of South Africa in a village called Nkandla. I am not only an artist but I’m also a practicing traditional healer and a traditional musician with 5 albums behind my name.

How would you describe your style and work, and how has it evolved?

My style of work is very original and ethnic, it has 3D layers and layers beneath it, and what makes my work different is because I use trash, like bottle caps, bones and plastic materials – literally anything I can from the streets that I feel like would be useful. I also describe my work as modern and contemporary, using a combination of materials over a tempered canvas surface and trash as a medium of expression showing how my work has evolved not only for me but for the industry as well.

What ideas do you express or use in your art?

As a traditional healer, I use throwing bones as my main divination medium, meaning I don’t only do pretty faces and famous influential people but I find myself telling stories and predicting, my work also varies from political views, spiritual and even general issues occurring in that specific time.

What are your influences in creating your artwork?

I am a self taught artist which means I never received any formal art training whatsoever, therefore giving me the platform to never limit myself, in fact I break all the rules and boundaries, which makes my work edgy and unique. I am a dedicated artist with a well advanced attention span and drive to achieve the highest possible standards of production.

What have you been currently working on?
I am currently producing for 2017. I am working on my 10th sculpture and a new gallery as well, expect the unexpected!

What’s your favourite piece?

I consider all my work as my favourites because I work hard but the Desmond Tutu piece is quite close to my heart.

You can see Ndabuko Ntuli’s art below (click to enlargen):

The Icon, Ndabuko Ntuli, 111.5cm x 94.5cm, mixed medium

Face of Liberty, Ndabuko Ntuli, 96.5cm x 131.7cm, mixed medium

Singing Bones, Ndabuko Ntuli, 62cm x 68cm, mixed medium

Red Face 1, Ndabuko Ntuli, 98cm x 105cm, mixed medium

Nguni Cattle, Ndabuko Ntuli, mixed medium

Isizikithi sabaphansi, Ndabuko Ntuli, 96.5cm x131.7cm, mixed medium

Blue Eyes, Ndabuko Ntuli, 97cm x 94cm, mixed medium

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Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

National Portrait Gallery | 2 July – 18 October 2015

An unmissable exhibition about Audrey Hepburn, the film star, fashion icon and humanitarian.

Bud Fraker – Audrey Hepburn for Sabrina Paramount Pictures (1954)

This exhibition marks 65 years since Audrey Hepburn took to the stage at London night club, Ciro’s. The site of the performance – which marked the beginning of her extraordinary career – is now occupied by the National Portrait Gallery archive.

Iconic portraits by leading 20th century photographers are brought together with intimate personal pictures from the family collection in order to chart Hepburn’s life both on and off the screen. Early photographs capture her difficult childhood in Belgium and Holland, her dedication to ballet practice as a young woman and her first modelling assignments in London – it was during these years she became the face of a campaign for Crookes Lacto-Calamine skin cream.

Watch the video about the exhibition here.

Look out for Mark Shaw’s photo essay about Audrey Hepburn for Life Magazine. He was granted unprecedented access to the star – who was filming Sabrina at the time – and followed her both on and off-set. The pictures provide a unique insight into Hepburn’s life at the height of her fame, and are shown.

Further behind-the-scenes shots are provided by Larry Fried, who captures Hepburn in her dressing room on Broadway for Gigi and Philippe Halsman’s pictures of her in Italy during the filming of War and Peace.

Address: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Tel: 020 7306 0055

Website: www.npg.org.uk

Admissions: Adults: £9

Opening hours:

Sat – Wed,10am – 6pm
Thu – Fri, 10am – 9pm

BP Portrait Award 2015

National Portrait Gallery | 18 June – 20 September 2015

Showcasing new art from talented artists from around the world.

This year the competition received the most entries in its history: 2,748 portraits from a record 92 countries were submitted to the judging panel, which includes artist Peter Monkman and historian Simon Schama. Fifty five of the best have been selected for this display at the National Portrait Gallery.

The BP Portrait Award rewards its winner £30,000, as well as a commission worth £5,000 to paint a portrait for the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection.

Matan Ben-Cnaan – Annabelle and Guy – 2014

Look out for the three top-placed finalists are included in the exhibition.

Matan Ben-Cnaan, Annabelle and Guy (first prize)

Ben-Cnaan hails from the north of Israel and studied fine arts at Haifa University. His allegorical portrait is partly inspired by the biblical story of Jephthah – an Israelite judge who vowed to God that should he emerge victorious from battle with the Ammonites, he would sacrifice the first thing to greet him on his home-coming. To his horror it is his daughter who rushes out in welcome, but he upholds his vow and sacrifices his child. Ben-Cnaan casts his friend Guy and Guy’s step-daughter Annabelle as the lead characters in a contemporary re-imagining of the tale.

Michael Gaskell, Eliza (second prize)

Leceister-based Michael Gaskell is no stranger to the BP Portrait Award; he has been selected for exhibitions five times and won second prize on three occasions [judged anonymously]. This year his shortlisted portrait is of his niece Eliza, who agreed to sit for him in early 2014 at the age of 14. Gaskell hopes the painting conveys a sense of Eliza’s growing confidence as she develops into a woman, yet also of her self-conciousness at the time of sitting. The aesthetics of the piece were strongly influenced by the work of the 15th-century painter Hans Memling, who the artist was researching at the time.

Borja Buces Renard, My Mother and My Brother on a Sunday Evening (third prize)

Borja Buces Renard’s captured this portrait of his mother Paloma and his brother Jaime at his parents’ home during one of their weekly Sunday gatherings. His father Jose Antonio had not been able to join them for some time as he was suffering from a progressively debilitating illness. The artist wanted to capture the emotion of the meeting, the missing image of his father particularly difficult for the whole family. Sadly Jose Antonio died just a few weeks after it was finished, and the piece is dedicated to his memory, as well as to Paloma who had dedicated herself to taking care of him.

Address: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Tel: 020 7306 0055

Website: www.npg.org.uk

Admission: Free entry to all

Opening hours:

Sat – Wed,10am – 6pm
Thu – Fri, 10am – 9pm

Damien Hirst

Pier Arts Centre | 20 June – 12 September 2015

A display of work by Damien Hirst, the infamous Young British Artist who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.

Away from the Flock (1994)

In 1991 Charles Saatchi offered to fund whatever artwork Damien Hirst wanted to make. The result was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – a £6,000 shark corpse floating in a formaldehyde vitrine. It was displayed in the Young British Artists first exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery the following year, and its reception catapulted Hirst into the public spotlight.

Here a range of Hirst’s work is shown alongside the centre’s collection of pieces by his close friend Margaret Mellis – an important mentor during the development of his early career. Mellis was one of the last survivors of the modernist artists that gathered in St Ives in the 1940s, and she played an important role in establishing the prestige of the colony. Hirst has publicly lamented that her work has been unduly neglected.

Address: Pier Arts Centre, 28–36 Victoria Street, Stromness, Highlands and Islands, KW16 3AA

Tel: 01856 850209

Website: www.pierartscentre.com

Admission:

Free entry to all
Free exhibitions to all

Open hours:

Tue – Sat, 10.30am – 5pm
(for additional seasonal openings see website http://www.pierartscentre.com)

Jeff Koons

Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | 9 May – 6 September 2015

Jeff Koons is an American artist known for his kitsch reproductions of banal objects.

Winter Bears – 1988

Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a new generation who wanted to explore the meaning of art in a media-saturated era. His work is praised for its originality and influence, although Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings, nor critiques.

The artist developed a colour-by-numbers system, so that each of his 100 or so assistants could execute his canvases and sculptures as if they had been done ‘by a single hand’. He has said of his work: ‘I think art takes you outside yourself, takes you past yourself.

‘I believe that my journey has really been to remove my own anxiety. That’s the key. The more anxiety you can remove, the more free you are to make that gesture, whatever the gesture is.’

This exhibition will include works in a variety of media to showcase his remarkably diverse art practice.

Address: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 3JU

Tel: 01603 493625

Website: http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk

Admission: Adults: £7.95

Opening hours:

2 Jan – 28 Jun, 28 Sept – 31 Dec
Mon – Sat, 10am – 4.30pm
Sun, 1 – 4.30pm

29 Jun – 27 Sept
Mon – Sat, 10am – 5pm
Sun, 1 – 5pm

Francis Bacon and the Masters

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts | 18 April – 26 July 2015

This exhibition frames Bacon as ‘an eclectic modernist’, who borrowed from the art of past to make art of the present. Over 30 of his masterpieces are brought together with works by Rembrandt, Velázquez, Rodin, Michelangelo, Picasso, Cezanne, Titian, Matisse and Van Gogh in order to highlight the many different ways his practice was informed by the methods and philosophies of his artistic ancestors.

Watch the video about his work here

The founders of the Sainsbury Centre were important early patrons of Bacon. Sir Robert and Lisa Sainsbury purchased his Study for a Nude in 1953, and went on to commission him to paint their portraits. As well as the 15 paintings from the centre’s own collection, other key pieces have been loaned from across Britain and Ireland.

Look out for material drawn from Bacon’s studio highlights his preoccupation with the art of the past. On display are palettes, books, catalogues and photographs, as well as a selection of personal belongings.

Address:

Sainsbury Centre for Visual ArtsUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ

Tel: 01603 593 199

Website: http://www.scva.ac.uk

Admisson: Adults: £12

Opening hours:

Tue – Fri, 10am – 6pm (Late Fridays 18 Apr – 26 Jul until 9pm)

Sat & Sun until 5pm

Closed Mon (excl 4 & 25 May, 10am-6pm)

Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions

Tate Liverpool: 30 June – 18 October 2015

Glenn Ligon (b 1960) is one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.

Glenn Ligon

This exhibition brings together artworks and other material he references in his own work and writings, or work with which he shares certain affinities. His practice, especially his painting, is deeply involved in the legacy of Post-War American art, which he enriches through references to American history, especially African-American experience. This exhibition features many major figures such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns alongside Ligon’s near contemporaries including Chris Ofili, Lorna Simpson and Felix Gonzales-Torres. Wider cultural phenomena such as the photojournalism of the Civil Rights struggle and Sun Ra’s seminal film Space is the Place also feature alongside the work of the artist.

Address: Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG

Tel: 020 7887 8888

Email visiting.britain@tate.org.uk

Admission:

Adult £11 (without donation £10)

Concession £8.25 (without donation £7.50)

Under 12s go free (up to four under 12s per parent or guardian).

Family tickets available (two adults and two children 12-18 years) by telephone or in the gallery only.

Open hours: 10.00–18.00 daily

Last admission and ticket sales for special exhibitions is at 17.15. Ticket desks close at this time.

The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay

Tate Modern: 15 April – 9 August 2015

Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde and became the

European doyenne of abstract art. Alongside her husband, Robert Delaunay, she pioneered the

movement Simultanism. Her exploration of the interaction between colours has created a

sense of depth and movement throughout her oeuvre.Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, she celebrated the modern world of movement, technology and urban life, exploring new ideas about colour theory together with her husband Robert Delaunay.

Sonia Delaunay – Yellow Nude

This is the first UK retrospective to assess the breadth of her vibrant artistic practice across a wide range of media. It features the groundbreaking paintings, textiles and clothes she made across a sixty-year career, as well as the results of her innovative collaborations with poets, choreographers and manufacturers, from Diaghilev to Liberty.

“This show makes a powerful argument for Delaunay as a true radical: ahead of her time, supremely relevant to ours.” – Ben Luke, Evening Standard

Address: Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

The Eyal Ofer Galleries, Level 3

Admission: Adult £16.00 (without donation £14.50)
Concession £14.00 (without donation £12.70)
Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian). Family tickets available (two adults & two children 12-18 years) by telephone or in the gallery.

Opening hours:

10:00 – 18:00, Sunday – Thursday

Last admission and ticket sales to special exhibitions is at 17.15. Ticket desks close at this time.

10.00–22.00, Friday – Saturday

Last admission and ticket sales to special exhibitions is at 21.15. Ticket desks close at this time.

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots

Tate Liverpool |30 June – 18 October 2015

Jackson Pollock is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative American artists of the twentieth century. Pollock famously pioneered action painting, a process that saw him drip paint on canvases resting on the studio floor.

Portrait and a Dream (1953)

Jackson Pollock’s Black Pourings, created between 1951 and 53 – remains one of Pollock’s lesser-known, yet marks an important period in the artist’s practice. After four years of creating vivid, colourful compositions, the Black Pourings were a radical departure from his signature style.

Pollock had signed to a commercial gallery, and was struggling to deal with the mounting pressure of expectation. He made a deliberate decision to move away from the defining ‘drip’ technique that had brought him critical acclaim, instead experimenting with a new ‘pour’ in treacly black paint. The resulting canvases are distinctively macabre in feel.

As well as presenting this poignant series of work, Tate Liverpool is showing a selection of Pollock’s drawings and rarely-seen sculptures from the same period – just a few years before his tragic death.

Address: Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 4BB

Tel: 0151 702 7400

Website: www.tate.org.uk/Liverpool

Opening Hours:

Open daily between 10.00–17.00
Closed 3 April and 24 – 26 December 2015

Admission:

Adult £11 (without donation £10)

Concession £8.25 (without donation £7.50).

Under 12s go free (up to four under 12s per parent or guardian).

Family tickets available (two adults and two children 12-18 years) by telephone or in the gallery only.