Lady Skollie: A Prediction
by NEWS
Yolk and white, a sphere of promise.
A glowing orb showing the future, a frenzied dream with traces of the past.
Throwing bones, dice, even hands to determine an uncertain future.
Running from 15 September to 15 October 2021 at Everard Read Johannesburg is A Prediction by Lady Skollie. From pre-colonial San learning divination from Tswana elders to Betway, A Prediction tries to speculate what lays inside the egg before it hatches as well as explores fortune-telling as a means of comfort.
Lady Skollie (born Laura Windvogel) is a feminist artist and activist from Cape Town, South Africa.
She employs ink, watercolour and crayon to defy taboos and talk openly about issues of sex, pleasure, consent, human connection, violence, and abuse. Her work is simultaneously bold and vulnerable, expressing the joy and darkness of the erotic and the duality of human experience.
Skollie has exhibited widely across South Africa. Her recent international solo exhibitions include Lust Politics, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK (2017), Fire with Fire, solo project at FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (2017), and Mating Dance, solo project at AKAA Art Fair, Paris, France (2017).
In 2018, Lady Skollie’s work was featured in group exhibitions including Old Masters / New Realities: Gerard Sekoto x Lady Skollie, TMRW Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things X at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK; Close: Proximity, Intimacy, Tension, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Right at the Equator, Depart Foundation, Malibu, CA, USA.
In 2017, along with Tschabalala Self and Abe Odedina, the artist contributed artwork for the stage design of a gala performance of The Children’s Monologues, a benefit held by the charitable organisation Dramatic Need, directed by Danny Boyle and held at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, USA. She has been featured on BBC Africa and CNN International on African Voices, as well as on the BBC World Service’s online and radio series In the Studio. She was also included in the 2018 edition of OkayAfrica’s 100 Women, an annual list that honours women across 10 different fields for their achievements and influence.
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