The UCT Irma Stern Museum will hold an IKEBANA AND BONSAI EXHIBITION from Wednesday, 1 to Saturday, 4 July 2015 from 10am – 5pm (weekdays) and from 10am – 2pm (Saturday). The UCT Irma Stern Museum …

STILL LIFE ON MAJOLICA GLAZE INSPIRED BY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN BY IRMA STERN - MAJOLICA GLAZE, EARTHENWARE Together with Hennie Meyer I will be exhibiting at The UCT Irma Stern Museum in December. I have been working for a while for this show, but recently had an exciting idea to make a table setting for the dining room in the museum using images from Irma Stern's portraits on some of the plates and Bloomsbury inspired images on others. These are two of the pieces.

You are invited to THE STERN EXCHANGE an exhibition by Lien Botha and Clementina van der Walt on Saturday 4th October 2014 at 10:30 as part of Designing Destiny The Cape Town Month of Photography,Film & New Media ’14 Festival. To be opened by Michael Godby Exhibition styled in collaboration with EBONY Walkabout on Wednesday 15th October at 10:30 Exhibition closes 25th October 2014 MOP6 Festival program 15 September – 31st October on www.photocentre.org.za The UCT Irma Stern Museum Cecil Road, Rosebank, Cape Town Tel. 021 685 5686 Opening hours: Tues-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 Sat 10: 00 - 14:00 www.irmastern.co.za The Stern Exchange is a collaboration between lens-based artist Lien Botha and ceramic artist Clementina van der Walt and will also be part of the Sixth Cape Town Month of Photography. Whilst the artists will each independently be investigating aspects of the Irma Stern Museum and reflecting these in separate bodies of work in their respective mediums, the original idea was to present something along the lines of the Grayson Perry installations in the British Museum – The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman – in 2011/12. Botha, besides exhibiting work from two existing portfolios called Moundou (2008) and Plant Press (2009), also created a unique set of eight photographic prints, featuring staff of the Irma Stern Museum and which can best be described as an idiosyncratic insertion into the raison d’être of this venerated building. Van der Walt will show ceramic works which embrace both the utilitarian and contemplative aspects of the ceramic discipline. Much of the style and methods of working have been inspired by experiencing two parallel lives – an urban life in the City of Cape Town and a rural life on a farm outside Calitzdorp in the Klein Karoo where she spends many weeks of the year. Her intention is to ‘seek the sacred in the ordinary’; “I endeavour to make contemplative objects which have a utilitarian dimension. My aesthetic inspiration is drawn from the patterns, colours, light and textures in the urban and natural African landscape.” Finally, the interplay between ceramic work and photographic prints will be tied together with furniture - supplied and coordinated by Ebony Design. *Esteemed academic and Art Historian, Professor Michael Godby will open the exhibition. *There will be a walkabout on Wednesday 15 October with Irma Stern lucky packets available for sale.