Christopher Webster van Tonder studied photography, art and art history as an undergraduate and postgraduate in South Africa and Wales. He has investigated and adapted the iconography of the analogue photographic image in the context of solo and group exhibitions.
Through international exhibitions, journal articles and conference papers, Webster van Tonder continues to develop, with his undergraduate, Masters and PhD students, alternative approaches to (broadly) lens-based practices (both chemically and conceptually). He works in mixed media combining works on paper with painting, pastels and drawing. He has extensive experience in solo and group exhibitions having exhibited in galleries around the world (For example: Tel Aviv, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, London, Belfast, Cardiff, Amsterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Dublin). In recent years he has exhibited alongside artists such as Chuck Close, Sally Mann and Dan Estabrook. His most recent practice is centred on the production of short 16mm films that include stop motion animation and manipulation of the film surface.
The working process is based on work generated from shards of memory, dreams or even initiated by some innocuous incident that has developed its own portentousness. Inevitably there are recurrent motifs but they are not necessarily overt in the constructed space of the picture. Freud postulated that the factories of the mind collect and process image after image of the outside world, creating a vast archive of recognised and hidden references. It is these inner spaces that interest him and that are ever present in the work that he makes.
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Size: 118.10" x 41.30"
Price: £1550.00
