- Title
- Outside city limits: introducing Anton van der Merwe of Starways Arts, in Hogsback, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Steele, John
- Description
- Certain contemporary artists in South Africa choose to live in rural areas rather than in cities. This paper explores some reasons for this preference, and also looks at countercultural back-to-the-earth trends and other factors that may have encouraged some of these artists to prefer to live and work in rural settings. It is against this background that artist Anton van der Merwe is introduced and his early choices of spaces in which to work, both as a potter and painter, are examined. This background serves to contextualise his decision, made in 1992, to move home and studio from Midrand in Gauteng to Hogsback village, in rural Eastern Cape. Hardships were faced, artistic growth has been experienced, and a flourishing visual arts practice has been established by him at Starways Arts. In conclusion, it is noted that involvement in aspects of local community affairs have resulted in widespread mutual benefit.
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text, Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1012
- Identifier
- vital:30191
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Art History
- Relation
- Steele J. (2014) Outside city limits : introducing Anton van der Merwe of Starways Arts, in Hogsback, Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Art History 29: 1-12
- Relation
- South African Journal of Art History https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC157767 29 vol. 1 no. 1 13 Jan 2014 0258-3542
- Rights
- Art Historical Work Group of South Africa
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