New Directions
This section comprises works made over the last decade, taking up the techniques and formats discussed throughout this site and introducing others. Encouraged by the professional print workshops that have opened or expanded their technical offerings in recent years (such as The Artists’ Press, in Mpumalanga) and by increased international exchange following the end of apartheid-era cultural boycotts and sanctions, artists have experimented anew with printmaking.
Like postapartheid works in other mediums, these prints both mine the past and critique the present in a manner that emphasizes the ambiguity, contradiction, and self-criticism that have come into broader artistic use in South Africa—qualities that depart from political certainties to invite unscripted, universal, and personal responses from the viewer.
Cameron Platter. The Battle of Rorke's Drift at Club Dirty Den. 2009. John Muafangejo. The Battle of Rorke's Drift. 1981
