Summer Muse Group Exhibition
BERMAN CONTEMPORARY
30 days left
Summer Muse Group Exhibition
BERMAN CONTEMPORARY
30 days left
This group exhibition showcases a diverse range of talents, styles, and mediums, united by the threads of femininity, imagination, and the timeless allure of the summer season.
Summer Muse celebrates the creative essence of women artists, inviting viewers to bask in the warmth of their inspiration.
Summer Muse is an invitation to be inspired by the work of Amogelang Maepa, Athenkosi Kwinana, Chrisél Attewell, DuduBloom More, Hazel Mphande, Lee-At Meyerov, Mellaney Roberts, and Natalie de Morney. Let their artistic expressions be your muse.
What is your muse?
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Chrisél Attewell
My work reflects both the world around me and those within me. I knew I would become an artist when I was a child, playing in the mud and daydreaming in trees. I have always been drawn to those moments of escape where I could freely imagine different worlds. I find my greatest inspiration at this intersection of reality and fiction.
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DuduBloom More
Colour serves as an active expression of my environment and mood, shaping my surroundings and experiences. Touch, on the other hand, acts as a bridge between reality and imagination, grounding me in the present while also evoking curiosity and playfulness. This tactile exploration enhances my perception, allowing me to experience textures and colours in a multi-sensory dialogue. I might “see” colour when I touch a certain object or I might “feel” a texture when I see a certain colour.
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Athenkosi Kwinana
My art challenges the representation of persons with albinism, aiming to create awareness. Summer, with its vibrant colors, brightness, and warmth, has always been a muse for me—bringing a sense of openness and energy that fuels my work. I love how the season mirrors my hope for a more colorful, inclusive world. My creative process is deeply influenced by the interactions I have with others, and the media I consume, which continually inspires me to address issues of identity and visibility.
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Natalie De Morney
My inspiration is sparked by my spiritual journey which is a continuous journey of death and rebirth. As I shed fears, beliefs, shame, guilt, emotions, I get to embrace and celebrate who I truly am. Art making helps me to process the shadows that my ego is resistant to face and makes the journey of death more digestible.
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Mellaney roberts
I am inspired by the way we find ourselves situated in a landscape, the muse being voices and textures that helps us expand.
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Lee-at meyerov
Inspiration comes from the seemingly banal, from the discarded, the visually overlooked, from 'domestic' and broken materials, from visceral textures, which when reworked and redefined provoke sensory and evocative experiences within myself and the viewer.
I am inspired by the symbolic significance of materials and objects, how they are embedded within their own history and how through their transformation into an art work, they take on a larger cultural, social and political framework.
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Amogelang Maepa
Tracy Emin has always been my muse, her work focuses on her and her experiences, the rawness and honest approach she takes has always pushed me to do the same.
Using my own life experiences for material to make artworks has always been the center of my art process and artists like Tracy Emin have always inspired me to mix the beautiful and ugly and always try to be honest with my work.
‘The most beautiful thing is honesty, even if it’s really painful to look at’ - Tracy Emin
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Hazel Mphande
Nature is my muse. Particularly flowers, so much that I titled the body of work The Unfurling. All the lessons I need in my practice and in life are there in nature .
To unfurl means to open up slowly or spread out overtime and this word resonated with me deeply before I started photographing this on going body of work.
I am interested in the kind of art making that is rooted in the process. A kind of flowering. Everything about my work is about time and does take time.
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