Lindi Venter

08 July 2018

Past Ventures 2018

memory
process
feelings
enhance
questions
fade
glance
changeability
past
important
experiences
final
parts

disintegrating

Yesterday's Dream, 2018

Oil on Canvas

22 x 16 cm

Fynbos, 2018

Oil on Board

15 x 21 cm

Where She Stands, 2018

Oil on Board

15 x 21 cm

Trails of the Past I, 2018

Oil on Board

15 x 21 cm

Trails of the Past II, 2018

Oil on Board

15 x 21 cm

16 February 2016

When In Artist Block 2016

I paint with the colour's soul

giving its deserved voice

I work with ideas

around memory and chance

My autobiographical work is mainly inspired by the expressionistic in life. The urge to feel something. It is born in the subconscious and reveals itself through art. It is a single moment in time - a celebration of subjective truth.

Lindi Venter obtained her BA Fine Arts degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2014 and taught Design at the Hugo Naudé Art Centre in Worcester in 2015. She is currently creating art in Cape Town, South Africa.

Frida Kakkie, 2016

(Frida's Shittie)

Oil on Canvas

120 x 90 cm

Woester Na Donker, 2015

(Ferocious After Dark)

Oil on Canvas

120 x 90 cm

12 December 2014

The Artist as Shaman 2014

My work is the autobiographical visual language of my subconscious. A fleeting moment in time - the midpoint between taking information in, processing it and creating new knowledge.

The work is directly tied to my emotions and does not in any way try to be objective. It is in fact a celebration of subjective truth. It explores ideas around external worlds, to produce new symbols and contribute to the collective conscious.

Yin/Yang Killed the Fox, 2014

Oil on Canvas

60.5x121.7cm

Oneindig, 2014

Oil on Canvas

70x130cm

Yin/Yang (Refined), 2014

Oil on Canvas

121,5x91cm
Sold

The Poetics of Space, 2014

Oil on Canvas

91x75.8cm

The Magic of Music, 2014

Oil on Canvas

60.5x60.8cm

Sold

Cast Away, 2014

Oil and Wine on Canvas

91x91cm

Happy Accident, 2014

Oil on Canvas

76x91cm

Sold

The Dancing Afterlife, 2014

Oil on Canvas

121.1x91cm

The Desert Gypsy, 2014

Oil on Canvas

150x90cm

Sold

I Have Stuffed You in a Box, 2014

Oil on Canvas

91x91cm

Mordor, 2014

Oil on Canvas

76x101cm

Sold

Ode to Vincent, 2014

Oil on Canvas

60x83.5cm

23 June 2014

//eerlik oomblik// (//honest moment//) 2014

my work is an autobiographical visual depiction of my subconscious. it does not try to represent a truth and the viewer should not expect to find any truth in it.

it is rather a fleeting moment in time, the mid-point between taking information in, processing it and producing new knowledge.

the work is directly tied to my emotions and does not in any way try to be objective. it is in fact a celebration of subjective thought.

dis als in 'n oomblik van absolute ekstase in die onderbewussyn

(it's all in a moment of absolute ecstasy in the unconscious)

Lindi Venter

2014

oil on canvas, 1.5 x 2.5 m

weskus blues

(west coast blues)

Lindi Venter

2014

oil on canvas

ek kan jou nie meer onthou nie

(i can't remember you anymore)

Lindi Venter

2014

oil on canvas

yin/yang

Lindi Venter

2014

oil on canvas

02 December 2013

Deep Down 2013

My autobiographical work reveals personal struggles and hurt. It speaks about emotional pain that I feel I have suffered from during my childhood. It also reveals the order of my upbringing and childhood mixed with my chaotic, irrational life today and coming to terms with the emotions in my head.

My world is not one of order and rationality, but rather the struggle between the surreal chaos of my escapism into my self-created world. It is derived from my subconscious.

All my work is inspired through my triptych 'Three Monarchs for Crucifixion'.

Hurt I, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Private Collection

Hurt II, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Hurt III, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Hurt IV, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Hurt V, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Hurt VI, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Sold

Hurt VII, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Sold

‘Oorskiet’, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 60 cm

Sold

Suffering, 2013,

Wire and plastic,

60 x 72 x 28 cm

Execution, 2013,

Wire and plastic,

58 x 90 x 54 cm

What the World Gave Me, 2013,

Oil on board, 60 x 120 cm

Private Collection

Three Monarchs for Crucixixion (I), 2013,

Oil on board,

84.5 x 120 cm

Three Monarchs for Crucixixion (II), 2013,

Oil on board,

84.5 x 120 cm

Three Monarchs for Crucixixion (III), 2013,

Oil on board,

84.5 x 120 cm

21 August 2013

faggot 2013

Ruann Coleman's and my work is catching quite some attention, this is great

Check out the link:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=162589773929550&set=a.142392912615903.1073741830.141698409352020&type=1&theater

faggot
Lindi Venter in collaboration with Ruann Coleman
Dimensions variable

Port Jackson wood and rope

2013

The work’s title as well as its location bears great significance. In both the title and material the work merely presents, a bundle of sticks. This project’s aim is to visually present how a word that once was assigned to something as simple as a bundle of sticks, now refers to and forms part of hate speech against homosexuality.

The work’s location is of great significance, which is a reaction the response of Dylan Lewis’s sculpture, Male-Trans Figure II. A response focused on issues the sculpture suggests with little focus on the sculpture itself.

In both instances this work faggot is a visual gesture to create awareness around the perception and misperception of the impact of words and images that hinders and detracts from the hidden subtleties of the everyday.

For info on the history of the origin of the word faggot, visit:

http://goo.gl/1VzBya