Erica works in multiple mediums which includes landscape art , Installations , embroidery and textile art.
Her frozen damn water or lollipop installations was a brilliant project that spoke to global warming in a strong visual way.
We will talk about that and her other projects and artworks.
We also look at her influences , processes and perspectives on life , art and the ongoing NAC sit down.
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Transcript
Wesley Pepper: [00:00:00] Hey everybody, this is Wesley pepper. And you're tuned in to my podcast Wesley Pepper’s Art Lexica, which is brought to you by Spudcaster and Baobulb. Um, yeah, man. Um, just a quick disclaimer. Uh, I've actually been getting my episode numbers around, um, last week was actually episode 47. Today is 48. So we're closing in on the 50th episode.
[00:00:35] And as you know, I've got a thingy lined up for that. So, um, that art giveaways I'll, I'll give you guys more information, uh, with regards to that too, at the end of today's episode, uh, Let's just recap quickly on last week’s episode, big up to Zolile Petshane for coming through. Thanks my brother. Um, I, um, I really enjoyed talking to him last week.
[00:00:54] Um, unpacking his processes and how is, um, you know, how we use the color and, the texture and those symbols in his work, very, very interesting stuff. I'm definitely gonna be, uh, making a followup with him too, towards the end of the year to catch up on how he's working or rather how the progress is coming on for his, um, and he's got a, he's got another major show coming up in 2022.
[00:01:15] So big up. Thanks. Thanks my brother for coming through for that. Um, I'm not giving any gallery a shout out today, but this is usually the slot where I do that, so, uh, um, but, um, yeah, I’m in association with that art company Soweto and obtain art gallery. Yeah. Oh yeah. All those guys in the coming, uh, in the coming. You’ll be hearing more of them in the future, um, today's episode, um, I'm talking to a very, very interesting artist called Erica Luttich.
[00:01:51] She's actually I know her from the Johannesburg area, but I think she's now based in the Western Cape. So we will definitely find out about that a bit later. Um, I think she does a really fantastic, um, um, um, um, art. Um, she, she, she works with this embroidery. Um, you know, when you, uh, when you're pretty much use enbroidery as a paint brush, which I think is really, really fascinating, I think that technique is fantastic.
[00:02:15] And I think conceptually is also very brilliant talking about conceptual brilliance. She also does these very, very interesting installations, um, including lands, um, of a landscape art. I've I've, I've seen, she's worked in collaboration with a few other artists on that. And, uh, also the one that really stood out sticks out for me is those, um, and I don't know if this is the correct word, but a sort of a lollipop, uh, or rather where she just takes this frozen water from a dam or the ocean, you know, it's all the debris and or whatnot freezes it and sort of uses these, uh, frozen popsicles as a, as, as an installation and the, you know, there's, and then takes photographs that are, and I think the whole concept is quite brilliant.
[00:02:55] Um, and I think it really talks very strongly to, uh, global warming, et cetera. So, uh, we're going to be touching base on with all of that, with our processes, with where she draws inspiration from what should we be doing now, future projects, et cetera, et cetera. So definitely look forward to that. Um, yeah, I mean, um, I've been, um, in the past episodes I was, I was talking a lot about, about the, about those artists sitting in the national arts council...
