Shack As Metaphor

Exhibited

Bell Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town, I Love Africa, 2000.

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, I Love Africa, 2000.

Kunsthaus, Basseland, Min(e)dfields, 2004.

Notes

"To coincide with the unveiling of Africa, a public sculpture I produced in 2000 as the result of winning the second Cape Town Urban Arts Foundation Public Sculpture competition. I exhibited a series of works that extended some of the ideas this commission had prompted. I established Bart as a symbolic vehicle in order to articulate odd notions of contradictory cultural celebrations and criticisms. By embracing the runt in his character while exposing societal variances, I wanted to describe the unbundling of a confused understanding of context. The results are consciously self-mocking. In vogue meditations on identity are revisited."¹ —Brett Murray

^1. Jacana Media (2013) Brett Murray, Johannesburg: Jacana Media, page 99.

Literature

Chris Roper (2000) Mail & Guardian, Bart for Arts Sake, online, accessed 28 May 2026.

Jacana Media (2013) Brett Murray, Johannesburg: Jacana Media, illustrated in colour on page 109.

Provenance

Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town.

Aspire Art, Johannesburg, 11 September 2024, lot 24.