Bronwyn Katz

Bronwyn Katz (born 1993) is a South African sculptor and visual artist. Quotes These are charged materials. They are objects created for a very specific purpose, and it became exciting to see how I can manipulate that, how I can extend the object’s life. El Anatsui has really instilled this openness in me and a willingness to explore something new. I’ve found myself wanting to challenge myself as much as possible. BRONWYN KATS"HOW I CAN EXTEND THE OBJECT'S LIFE?, November 8 2023 I started with Styrofoam, but I need to cushion from falling and possibly causing harm. Whilst cutting through parts of her bed, I would ask myself what a bed is. It immediately came to me that it’s a place of rest, a place of death, a place of dreaming, populating, a lot happens on a bed. My hands are sore, as you could see I was pulling, ne? Does she ever cry from the pain? My dad is a metal worker so, being his only child, I’ve grown up around steel. There’s a piece I made with base springs where I knitted some parts in green. It was based on an image I saw while flying and I could see all the circles on the earth. It’s about depicting space very abstractly. I think that, sometimes, black women are expected to make work about womanhood. Yet my work is about womanhood, not overtly, but it’s about womanhood because I am a woman making it. One Brick at a Time: Bronwyn Katz,August 20 2017 External Links Category:Sculptors Category:Visual artists Category:1993 births