South African Design: Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025
Interior Elements: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Ceramic & Glass Art
About the SessionThis sale traces the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression highlighting diverse design objects through two sessions. Uniting the sessions is a celebration of the versatility of materials - metal, wood, glass, clay, fibre - and how artists and artisans have transformed them over time into works of wonder, rich in both tradition and innovation.
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Peta Becker's textile sculptures showcase her three dimensional collaborations with artisans from her crochet project, Projekt.
Becker's ongoing focus is botanical and her work is exploratory and intuitive, connecting with the plant kingdom from a deeply empathic place.
"As we continue to discover, plants are complex and sentient organisms, silently pursuing their ancient strategies to survive and communicate with each other. Their resilience and modes of adaptation are impressive, compared to ours. They can be seen as a metaphor for life force and growth in all its forms. They provide some unknowable comfort and reassurance to us as humans facing relentless urbanization and alienation from the environments we create for ourselves" - Peta Becker, 2020
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