FORMS Gallery is a dynamic structure for working with artists. It was founded by Anthea Buys in 2021 and works closely with ten artists, most of whom are in the early stages of their careers.
FORMS draws on gallery, institutional and independent curatorial models, presenting a programme that takes shape through a combination of online and in-real-life manifestations. At the heart of this programme are ongoing collaborations with artists who make work that is critically, aesthetically and politically important. Also central to the FORMS ecosystem are connections with like-minded spaces, people and organisations.
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FORMS Gallery is a dynamic structure for working with artists. It was founded by Anthea Buys in 2021 and works closely with ten artists, most of whom are in the early stages of their careers.
FORMS draws on gallery, institutional and independent curatorial models, presenting a programme that takes shape through a combination of online and in-real-life manifestations. At the heart of this programme are ongoing collaborations with artists who make work that is critically, aesthetically and politically important. Also central to the FORMS ecosystem are connections with like-minded spaces, people and organisations.
Jarrett Erasmus
b. 1984, Cape Town, South Africa
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Exhibitions:
Time Is A Broken Umbrella, AVA, Cape Town. 10/03/2022 – 21/04/2022
Jarrett Erasmus: New Paintings (online feature)
5/07/2022 – 31/07/2022
b. 1984, Cape Town, South Africa
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Exhibitions:
Time Is A Broken Umbrella, AVA, Cape Town. 10/03/2022 – 21/04/2022
Jarrett Erasmus: New Paintings (online feature)
5/07/2022 – 31/07/2022
Jarrett Erasmus is a Johannesburg-based artist and educator working across the media of painting and social practice. His work investigates post apartheid realities in South Africa and their effects on social dynamics, spatial aesthetics, and communities, both within South Africa and in various African diasporas. A member of the Burning Museum collective, he completed a MA in Fine Art at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2017, and in 2016 participated in the Summer School programme at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdk).
Erasmus has presented his solo work and collaborative projects in a variety of institutional and public contexts, including at the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2019), the Festival d'Art Urbaine, Antananarivo (2016), the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014) and at the African Art Forum in Venice (2017). Erasmus remains active in several community art initiatives that were instrumental in facilitating arts education for people of colour under the apartheid regime, and is currently Chairperson of the Thupelo Arts Trust, a foundation dedicated to fostering artistic experimentation and international exchange.
Erasmus has presented his solo work and collaborative projects in a variety of institutional and public contexts, including at the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2019), the Festival d'Art Urbaine, Antananarivo (2016), the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014) and at the African Art Forum in Venice (2017). Erasmus remains active in several community art initiatives that were instrumental in facilitating arts education for people of colour under the apartheid regime, and is currently Chairperson of the Thupelo Arts Trust, a foundation dedicated to fostering artistic experimentation and international exchange.
Selected paintings
Selected works on paper
