Notes

"Since he was a young boy he loved Lego and building things and this has led him to where he is today. “I used to build Lego-like men from wood and The Legacies of Liberation collection was carved from Jacaranda wood. Many hours of hard work went into the figures which I sent to The Loop Foundry in White River to be finished. Moulds of wax were done of the figures and then they were cast as bronze. They are now extremely heavy,” laughed Neill."¹

'Hobby Horse is a commentary on child soldiers, the loss of innocence and the naivety to the tragedy of war. It juxtaposes children in a free society, to those forced into a military role under the guise of 'liberation''²

1. Julie Maule (2014) Southern Courier, Legacies of Liberation go to London, online, https://www.citizen.co.za/southern-courier/news-headlines/2014/12/03/legacies-liberation-go-london/, accessed 10 August 2024.

^2. Kefiloe Siwisa (2014) Liberation (Un)Masked, exhibition catalogue, London: Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery.

Exhibited

Everard Read, Johannesburg, The Only Way Out Is Through, 24 March to 30 April 2020, another cast from the edition exhibited.

Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery, London, Liberation (Un)Masked, 25 November to 15 December 2014, another cast from the edition exhibited.

Literature

Kefiloe Siwisa (2014) Liberation (Un)Masked, exhibition catalogue, London, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on page 21.