Art Source South Africa :
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We are proud to have managed the following artist
Diana Page
Her work skirts abstraction – the images are suggestive, fluid and not descriptive
Diana Page was born in Durban and raised in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. She gained an undergraduate degree at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (1986) and later an HDE (PG) Sec at the University of Cape Town (1987) and a Masters in Painting from Rhodes University, Mahkanda, (1996). Over the last 3 decades as a professional artist she has exhibited, taught and collaborated with other artists in both South Africa as well as in Istanbul, where she has been resident for thirteen years. She has participated in public art projects and held exhibitions in South Africa, Turkey and internationally.
Her work explores a transnational existence and ideas about space, home, and identity through painting and the parallel practices of drawing, digital animation, and performance.
Diana states, “My experience of one home always occurs in counterpoint to the other. My memory and imagination of these two places is informed by constant drawing and revisiting of images along the Bosphorus, where I have my studio”. From her studio she views and experiences the city of Istanbul in its constant state of change.
Diana’s work skirts abstraction – the images are suggestive, fluid and not descriptive. She embraces an approach to contemporary painting that favours chance and whimsy over absolutism and certainty. Some paintings appear almost as line drawings, whilst others have a highly layered and lively surface – a lush, painterly surface reflecting a history. Her lyrical images remain open to allow the viewer to bring their own interpretations, emotions and memories when engaging with the work.
In 2019 Art Source South Africa presented her solo exhibition titled Shearwater, in association with the Henry George Gallery, Johannesburg.
Les Cohn of Art Source South Africa will curate and present Page’s new solo exhibition in association with Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein in 2022. Due to new Covid-19 lockdown regulations Diana Page’s Walking on the rim of light solo exhibition, planned to open on 17 July 2021 at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, was re-scheduled to Thursday, 24 February 2022
Past Project
Walking on the Rim of Light
Walking on a rim of light – A solo exhibition by Diana Page (2022). Oliewenhuis Art Museum
The exhibition was be opened by:
Alexandra Dodd is a writer and editor whose work takes shape at the intersection between visual, literary and archival cultures. She is the author of David Goldblatt: The Last Interview (published by Steidl in 2019) and co-editor (with Storm Janse van Rensburg) of Home Is Where the Art Is, due to be launched by Zeitz MOCAA at this year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair.
Julia Martin is a writer and a professor of English at the University of the Western Cape. Her most recent book is The Blackridge House: A Memoir.
Articles
Are there squatter camps around Istanbul, I wonder? I think of that ancient metropolis because the artist Diana Page lives there, and her poetically – titled show, ‘Walking on a rim of light,” was about to open…
Past Project
Some of Diana’s selected previous projects
Diana Page touring exhibition – Henry George Gallery, Johannesburg (2019) and Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein (2021).