Mary Wafer - Mine (paintings)

The series of paintings on this exhibition derive from a reflection on the events at Marikana of 16 August 2012. A strike at a Lonmin owned platinum mine in the Marikana area close to Rustenburg lead to a series of violent confrontations between police, mine security officials, trade union leaders and miners in which around 47 miners were killed and an unknown number injured. The paintings are partially abstracted landscapes derived from media images and my own visits to the site where the massacre happened.These works are an attempt, within the possibilities of painting, to find a way of responding to, and reflecting on, these events and the place in which they occurred.

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