Exhibitions – Plett ARTS Festival 2021
Bay Decor
On Piesang Valley Road, visit Bay Décor showroom to view original artworks by a variety of artists, and custom-built luxury furnishings and accessories of impeccable design.
Plettenberg Bay has the natural essences of green forests, sun-bleached sands, blue seas and pastel skies, which is an influence in their décor and design style.
Art is an essential part of one’s home.
Dallas Smith – The rising tide
In the Yellowoods Centre, Main Street, a thought-provoking exhibition from Dallas Smith Gallery. There is a saying that the rising tide carries all ships. With all that has been happening across the globe, it appears as if the entire world has risen and no one is unaffected.
The Smith collective explore and question what the world will be like a few years from now in the near future. Join Dallas and Linda for a glass of wine during the Plett Arts Twilight Meander on Tuesday evening.
Firehart Artwear at Rair
Exhibiting at Rair boutique for the duration of the festival, the concept of wearing art becomes a reality with Firehart Artwear. Firehart cares about the earth and uses recycled material. 25 recycled plastic bottles go into one pair of lycra leggings!
The brand is about celebrating the self and mother earth and is inspired by the elements of fire, water, air, earth and spirit. The digital designs express our miraculous universe through colour, pattern, mandalas, sacred geometry and fractals, representing an intersection of art and technology, and are created by Plett designer, Debra de Villiers.
Gallop Hill
With their art galleries and artists firmly established within the art investors community, Gallop Hill has found a home in Plett with its stable of exclusive artists.
All the extraordinary works are marketed on the world stage and Gallop Hill continues to select and represent artists with a special talent, now at their Plett seaside destination gallery.
You can view contemporary, realist, modern and some fun art at the gallery in Lookout Centre, Main Street. Join them on Tuesday evening during the festival at the Plett Arts Twilight Meander for a glass of wine, and the carefully curated art selection.
Reidwood
An exhibition of furniture, art, ceramics & sculpture. You’ll find Reidwood in the courtyard (below The Village Bookshop), Yellowoods Centre, Main Street. The Reidwood furniture exhibition is a mixture of styles, materials, and timber shaped by years of interaction with clients, designers and architects, and formed by the skill, workmanship and creativity of the Reidwood workshop.
Alongside the furniture, view art by Helen Mudge, Matthew Brouckaert and Piero Carrara as well as Bowen Boshier and Peter van Straten.
Fabric by Mungo, ceramics by Carol Sachs and sculpture by Malcolm Solomon and Trevor Opperman/Smolten.
Enjoy a glass of wine with the artists during the Tuesday Twilight Meander.
Sandy Rosin Exhibition
“I get itchy fingers & just have to draw”.
Sandy Rosin has been drawing all her life. Her subject matter has evolved from realistic renditions of the great loves in her life, animals, people, flora and landscapes, to what she terms ‘Doodle Art’.
This somewhat light-hearted way of describing her work makes reference to her meditative process of expanding realistic subject matter, allowing her imagination to take flight as she immerses herself into exquisite detail and flowing organic imagery with hidden faces, figurines and made-up creatures. Her chosen medium is ink on paper with occasional soft colour.
The Sandy Rosin exhibition is up at The Nice Neighbour at Old Nick Village for the duration of the Plett Arts Festival. Viewing her work will take you on a journey of discovery and delight.
Myfanwy Bekker
In her own words “I make work with a dedicated conscious intent to express that which is in me or coming through me, that could not express or even think of, whilst in a normal every day, ”states of being”. It is a pure and spontaneous record of marks revealing the emotional, intellectual and spiritual states of being at the time of the work. I shift gears to get to the safe and familiar place of an altered state, and then I can engage in the process.
The purer one is in the process, the more intelligently the work will speak. I am also interested in the energetic frequency that is carried from the artist’s hand to the actual object on which they work, and then I am in process of measuring the energetic force that is given off by the work to the viewer, an ongoing fascinating concept and quest.”
She has a working Studio at the Lookout Centre. You can meet Myfanwy Bekker during the festival at The Plett ARTS Twilight Meander on Tuesday Evening, or visit her studio during the festival.