The exhibition includes five large wall-based artworks by Boshoff, made from objects glued, welded, and bolted. These include ASH (2018), ELM (2021), and OAK (2022); Pointless (2021); BLUE (2021); as well as GREY — a work-in-progress created using Guineafowl feathers that the artist will develop during a workshop with students from the University of the Free State, to demonstrate processes of assemblage and collage.

As a sculptural technique, assemblage has been defined as the ‘unlikely’ combination of found objects, often to surprising effect. While primarily associated with drawing and painting, collage, in turn, is described as the arrangement of ‘pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera’ on a ‘supporting surface’. Derived from the French “coller”, meaning to glue or stick, collage often makes use of cut-outs, allowing for the re- contextualisation and re-configuration of singular, stagnant meanings, concepts, or representations.

aThe exhibition is supported by NEDBANK PRIVATE WEALTH, the Claire & Edoardo Villa Will Trust, and the University of the Free State. Our thanks to Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, for insuring the artworks in transit.