Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition
Timed Online Auction, 2 - 24 February 2025
Innovation & Tradition
About the Session‘Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition’ highlights a diverse range of materials, techniques, and processes from various regions, including Southern, Central and Western Africa. These works coalesce utility, aesthetics and cultural identity. From the tactile threads of textiles to the intricate blending of natural fibres in baskets and the sculptural forms of steel, copper, brass and beads, the concept of weaving is reimagined as a metaphor for connection, storytelling and the passing on of tradition.
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Notes
Conrad Hicks's designs are influenced by the time he spends at the forge developing his own methods, ”My best products come directly from a personal exploration of the materials and process”. He remains true to the craft, avoiding welding as valueless with no symbolic meaning. Hicks asserts that all traditional blacksmithing jointing methods have innate metaphorical meaning adding to the final symbolic meaning of the finished form.
Hicks's works on a broad variety of commissions which range from architectural projects to sculptures for private collections. He was the commission to design the prestigious Kirstenbosch Gates in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. He designed the metal gates, screens, doors, and spiral staircase for Tokara Winery and also created the gates at The Cape Quarter. Hicks also completed six sculptures for the 2010 World Cup Hero Walk in Cape Town.
Exhibited
'Implement' Solo Exhibition, Southern Guild, 24 May - 17 July 2019
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