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Walking on a rim of light

Participating: Diana Page

Oliewenhuis Art Museum is proud to announce Walking on a rim of light a solo exhibition by South African multi-disciplinary artist Diana Page to be exhibited in the Reservoir.

Diana was born in Durban and raised in Grahamstown. 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 completed a Masters in Painting at 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 sixteen 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 this 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. Walking on a rim of light comprises new large as well as more intimate wall-based paintings, editioned photographic and digital prints, including digital presentations of Page's sketchbooks. Digital video pieces of Page's performances complete the show.

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