May 10, 2025 - June 01, 2025
White River, South Africa
Annamarie van Renen, Elfriede Dreyer, Evangeline McKay, Francelle du Plessis, Griet van der Meulen, Ilona Petzer, Ingrid Vorwerk Marren, Dr Linda Kuhn, Linda Raath, Loeritha Saayman, Wendy Sippel
Wild
The Wild exhibition features the work of ten artists who participated in a creativity workshop held at Ngongoni Game Lodge near Nelspruit from 31 March to 4 April 2025. The workshop was offered through the CAP Institute for Contemporary Art Practice and facilitated by its founder Elfriede Dreyer—artist, curator, and professor at UNISA.
The guiding theme was inspired by Paul Gauguin’s poignant question and painting title: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897). This phrase served as a conceptual springboard, inviting reflection on profound existential concerns—human origins, identity, and destiny.
In response, the artists explored these questions through a lens of origin, archaeology, and history; interrogating the human impact on nature in the age of the Anthropocene, and considering nature as both home and memory. Wild nature served as visual inspiration, conceptual framework, and material source— shaping the creative investigations presented in this exhibition.
Professor Elfriede Dreyer
May 2025
White River Gallery
Opening: 10 May at 12 noon at White River Gallery
Opening Speaker: Prof. Elfriede Dryer
Concludes: 1 June