Featured Artworks

Untitled (30)
Untitled (52)
Untitled (2)
Untitled (11)
Untitled (14)
Sisanda [We still rising]
Nontyantyambo [Flower]
Ntombi Yom Xhosa [Xhosa Girl]
Nomvula [Rain]
Nolali [Village Girl]
Nobuhle [Beauty]
Ndim Lo [This is me]
I Ndlela Zam II [My Ways II]
Ndim Ndinje [I am Me]
I Ndlela Zam I [My Ways I]
Themba Iam [My Hope]
Mkosazana [The Queen]
Intokazi I [Lady I]
Ntandokazi [Loved One]
Imbokodo [Rock]

"Hennie Meyer's 400g series has been many years in the making, the culmination of a career-long obsession with form and experimentation. Untitled and without the promise of function, this series is a city of things to do with one’s hands. In new-skin glazes, each earthenware form is exactly 400g. This is the defining parameter – beyond it, the scope extends anywhere. This body of work emerges as a meditation on the limits of things, and the limits as a frame for invention. The material rule-set of weight, glaze and medium permits an imaginative expansion through the 400g cubic edge. Repeated and repeated, the white cube stretches into the form that rises..."

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Hennie Meyer in studio

"In a career-defining concern for the role of the individual in the collective, this 400g series both echoes and stands in contrast to Meyer’s previous work."

- Extract from Clay Formes

Journal

The power of sculpture lies in its materiality: its occupation of space demands a multifaceted engagement, ensuring a dynamic interaction

Artists

South Africa
(B. 1981)
South Africa
(B. 1979)
South Africa
(B. 1971)
South Africa
(B. 1965)
Nigeria
(B. 1963)
South Africa
(B. 1977)

Art Formes Publications

Clay Formes

This publication offers enthusiasts and collectors a glimpse into the studios of thirty important South African artists, born between 1941 and 1998, revealing the richness of both contemporary clay and ceramic tradition within South African art. This book is the fruit of countless conversations with each featured artist including Hylton Nel, Belinda Blignaut, Jabulile Nala, lan Garrett, Andile Dyalvane, Katherine Glenday, Zizipho Poswa, Madoda Fani, Marlene Steyn, Hennie Meyer, Astrid Dahl, Chuma Maweni and Ruan Hoffmann amonast others

Edited by Olivia Barrell. 272 pages, hardcover, full colour on uncoated paper, thread-sewn. Printed in Cape Town, South Africa. First edition published August 2023.

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