An ESSAY On Geoffrey Armstrong And Wendy Vincent: Lifelong Artistic Partners And Stewards Of The Earth
Featuring the dream-like world of Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong
This year, RMB Latitudes Art Fair Special Project, ESSAY, will focus on the dream-like work and artistic lives of artist couple, Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong.
Co-curated by Vincent Truter and Lucy MacGarry, this rare presentation brings together selected pieces from a body of work created over the past 25 years in the couple’s Magaliesburg Rock Garden in South Africa.
In this exhibition of eight prints and four paintings by Vincent and four sculptures in wood by Armstrong, the artists’ works exist in dialogue with each other, their rock garden landscape and their profound exploration of natural phenomena. The exhibition offers a portal into a vital, living chaos rather than a place of sanctuary; an encounter that challenges and changes perceptions of what is and what could be.
“Armstrong and Vincent are indeed stewards of the earth”, comments Lucy McGarry, director and co-founder of Latitudes, “an innate rapport with the natural world is the heartbeat of these works.”
Artistic expression
Armstrong’s masterpieces sculpted from wood or choreographed with rocks, stones, wood and concrete reveal hidden forms and flows, elements of a symbiotic dance of discovery and revelation in an interconnected universe, where form evolves out of and dissolves into its milieu.
The hidden life of nature depicted in the interplay of form and the absence of form, light and shadow, is a feature of Vincent’s works, which call for a suspension of one’s need to know and abandonment to the alchemical place of holding between void and form.
“It is a feeling about nature,” Vincent says. “Plants are only deeply there.”
RMB Latitudes Art Fair runs from 24-26 May at Shepstone Gardens. For more information, to view the full exhibitor list, and to purchase tickets, visit latitudesartfair.com
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