#Laura Skollie

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Lady Skollie of Cape Town (b 1987).

"Sex, food and sleep. Human sexuality, 'the simplest and the most complicated thing' and about which, artist Laura Windvogel AKA Lady Skollie has a lot to say. Her colourful and playful work finds joy in the erotic and shines a torch on conceptions of desire, gender, attraction, sex, intimacy and consent, and not only in an African context. Her voice is crude, it's unashamed and she's taking on the task of destroying patriarchal, misogynistic norms whether it be via her art, or her skills on social media. She's here to evoke rage and I want one on my wall."

  https://beija.london/.../beijainspo-lady-skollie-of-cape...#

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Out Of This World, a new i-D documentary series, journeys with American rapper and activist Mykki Blanco as he explores queer culture in Johannesburg. Captured intimately in an experimental hybrid-documentary by director Matt Lambert, Mykki meets boundary pushing artists Umilio and FAKA, designer Rich Mnisi and Bradley and Nkulsey, a model and dancer of the 'Born Free' generation - all using their platforms to give a voice to issues surrounding the politics of their sexuality, gender, identity and humanity. As we make our way through the creative epicentre that is South Africa's biggest city, join us in celebrating the thriving alternative queer scene.

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Inspiration for my praxis:Lady Skollie

Lady Skollie (born Laura Windvogel) is a feminist and activist South African artist. Through her art she communicates themes and issues that are uncomfortable and difficult to speak about. She describes her work as 'fire, ritual, khoisan'. Lady Skollie deviated from the traditional art scene and made use of social media to promote her work.

The term 'skollie'is a historical and derogatory term used to describe shady character. It was used by the Dutch (white people) against black people.

By creating this pseudonym she takes back the power this word had over black people but specifically the coloured people in South Africa. She embraces it and makes the name her own. In an interview I heard her speak about how she was quite 'ladylike' as a child and people would often say she's a lady. And then when she grew up into becoming an adult she was able to express and show who she really was, which she says is a 'skollie'.

This pseudonym she's created is a combination of masculine and feminine energies. She has created an image for herself that may seem contradictory but I would say perfectly describes who she is as an artist.

Lady Skollie claims her identity as a coloured woman, we see this in her work and her name. I found inspiration for my praxis in her and her work.

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Audra McDonald, Daveed Diggs, and Charlize Theron Set for Carnegie Hall Children's Monologues Benefit

The African-based creative arts charity Dramatic Need will collaborate with Carnegie Hall to present the U.S. premiere of The Children’s Monologues November 13 at 7:30 PM in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle will bring together an all-star cast for the one-night-only benefit—including Tony winners Audra McDonald and Daveed Diggs, Charlize Theron, Trevor Noah, Susan Sarandon, James McAvoy, Daniel Kaluuya, Lena Dunham, Ewan McGregor, and current Hamilton star Javier Muñoz—to tell the stories of children growing up in Rammulotsi, a rural township in the Free State province of South Africa.

Monologues, which recounts the stories of young people expressing personal experiences in their own words, is adapted by Lynn Nottage, Neil LaBute, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Jack Thorne, and Laura Wade.

The Children’s Monologues comes to New York City following two successful productions in London in recent years, both directed by Boyle. As with the London productions, the New York event will incorporate elements of music, dance, and the visual arts. It will open with Via Vyndal, young dancers selected by Boyle, who will travel from South Africa to perform pantsula, a form of street dance that originated in the Johannesburg region during the Apartheid era.

The performance will also feature teens from across New York City invited by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music. Contributing to the visual design on the Carnegie Hall stage will be Abe Odedina (England), Tschabalala Self (United States), and Lady Skollie (South Africa).

In a statement Boyle said, “These stories capture some extraordinary moments in the lives of these kids. There is something so powerful about their words—the simple humanity of them—that creates an intimate connection between each actor and the audience, across thousands of miles, across continents, race, age, income, and gender. The effect is to transport all of us in the theater to the townships and into these children’s shoes. It is exactly what great theater should do: move you to see something so far away from your own experience as if it’s right up close.”

Amber Sainsbury, Dramatic Need’s founder and producer of The Children’s Monologues, added, “The ability to create, to express what you are going through, is a vital part of the human condition. For many of the children that Dramatic Need works with, there’s no recourse to self-expression except through violence or cycles of abuse and conflict from which it is difficult to escape. By helping kids in these remote areas access the arts, we invite them to tell their story and to be listened to. Through storytelling, they learn to express themselves, cope with difficult experiences, and empathize with others.”

Similar to Dramatic Need productions in previous years, the monologues will also be performed in Africa November 13, presented at the Market Theater in Johannesburg featuring an all-female cast of acclaimed actors from across the African continent as well as by children onstage in their local township in rural South Africa.

Tickets, starting at $150, go on sale to Carnegie Hall subscribers and donors July 24 at 8 AM, and to the general public July 31 at 8 AM. Tickets are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, or online at carnegiehall.org. A limited number of discounted tickets will be made available to the general public on the day of the November 13 performance.

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Audra McDonald, Daveed Diggs, and Charlize Theron Set for Carnegie Hall Children's Monologues Benefit

The African-based creative arts charity Dramatic Need will collaborate with Carnegie Hall to present the U.S. premiere of The Children’s Monologues  November 13 at 7:30 PM in  the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle will bring together an all-star cast for the one-night-only benefit—including Tony winners Audra McDonald and Daveed Diggs, Charlize Theron, Trevor Noah, Susan Sarandon, James McAvoy, Daniel Kaluuya, Lena Dunham, Ewan McGregor, and current Hamilton star Javier Muñoz—to tell the stories of children growing up in Rammulotsi, a rural township in the Free State province of South Africa.

Monologues, which recounts the stories of young people expressing personal experiences in their own words, is adapted by Lynn Nottage, Neil LaBute, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Jack Thorne, and Laura Wade.

The Children’s Monologues comes to New York City following two successful productions in London in recent years, both directed by Boyle. As with the London productions, the New York event will incorporate elements of music, dance, and the visual arts. It will open with Via Vyndal, young dancers selected by Boyle, who will travel from South Africa to perform pantsula, a form of street dance that originated in the Johannesburg region during the Apartheid era.

The performance will also feature teens from across New York City invited by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music.  Contributing to the visual design on the Carnegie Hall stage will be Abe Odedina (England), Tschabalala Self (United States), and Lady Skollie (South Africa).

In a statement Boyle  said, “These stories capture some extraordinary moments in the lives of these kids. There is something so powerful about their words—the simple humanity of them—that creates an intimate connection between each actor and the audience, across thousands of miles, across continents, race, age, income, and gender. The effect is to transport all of us in the theater to the townships and into these children’s shoes. It is exactly what great theater should do: move you to see something so far away from your own experience as if it’s right up close.”

Amber Sainsbury, Dramatic Need’s founder and producer of The Children’s Monologues,  added, “The ability to create, to express what you are going through, is a vital part of the human condition. For many of the children that Dramatic Need works with, there’s no recourse to self-expression except through violence or cycles of abuse and conflict from which it is difficult to escape. By helping kids in these remote areas access the arts, we invite them to tell their story and to be listened to. Through storytelling, they learn to express themselves, cope with difficult experiences, and empathize with others.”

Similar to Dramatic Need productions in previous years, the monologues will also be performed in Africa November 13, presented at the Market Theater in Johannesburg featuring an all-female cast of acclaimed actors from across the African continent as well as by children onstage in their local township in rural South Africa.

Tickets, starting at $150, go on sale to Carnegie Hall subscribers and donors July 24 at 8 AM, and to the general public July 31 at 8 AM. Tickets are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at  (212) 247-7800, or online at carnegiehall.org. A limited number of discounted tickets will be made available to the general public on the day of the November 13 performance.

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Born Laura Windvogel, the 29-year old Johannesburg-based artist primarily works with watercolor, crayon, and ink. She is also well-known for her hilariously candid podcast, KISS & TELL with Lady Skollie, in which she tackles love, sex, and relationships with intelligence, honesty, and a salacious sense of humour.

Her persona perfectly reflects her impact on the often imperviously white art world. The word “skollie” can be loosely translated as “troublemaker,” a term most commonly used to describe rebellious and troublesome young men. By adding “Lady”—a word with a loaded history in South Africa due to its near-exclusive association with white femininity—Lady Skollie’s name juxtaposes masculine and feminine elements while flipping race on its head.

Lady Skollie’s first international solo exhibition, “Lust Politics,” began at London’s Tyburn Gallery in January. The show seeks to trouble assumptions about desire and sex while exploring themes such as consent, the fetishization of Black bodies, sexual violence, gender roles, and the objectification of women. The largest painting on display in the “Lust Politics” exhibit is entitled Khoisan Kween Mother: It features a many-limbed feminine figure, resplendently colored in bright orange and black flecks, head framed with a halo, clothed in a skirt of yellow fruit. The painting was completed at the exhibition’s opening, directly in the presence of the audience. It references the Khoi and San people, group of indigenous Southern Africans later known as the Khoisana.

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The Fearless Feminist Artist Taking Down South Africa's 'Bro Code'

Johannesburg-based Lady Skollie is colonizing London with her first solo UK exhibition, Lust Politics at Tyburn Gallery. Lady Skollie, born Laura Windvogel, tells The Creator’s Project that making art tackling these issues is “sometimes a bit tricky” in South Africa, a country which is alleged to have among the highest rates of rape and sexual violence in the world. “We have things like the ‘bro code,’ molestation, rape — all of these things happen and men aren’t held accountable,” she says. “I think accountability is key for people to heal and for people to feel heard and understood.”

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FASHION MEET ART; SOUTH AFRICA’S MARIANNE FASSLER AND HER BOUDOIR OF ART

 South African designer Marianne Fassler has spent over three decades in the fashion business and this is evident as she continues to interpret individuality, identity and craftsmanship into every design. Her latest fashion campaign speaks volumes about her artistic side as the #FasslerBoudoir 2017/2018 Resort Collection features artist Laura Windvogel (aka Lady Skollie). Lady Skollie’s art is…

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The Fearless Feminist Artist Taking Down South Africa's 'Bro Code'

Portrait of Lady Skollie, © Anthea Pokroy, Lust Politics, All images courtesy Tyburn Gallery, London, tyburngallery.com

Breaking taboos through paintings and digital media — including Twitter and a sex talk radio show, by addressing issues of gender, sex, pleasure, and abuse — Johannesburg-based Lady Skollie is colonizing London with her first solo UK exhibition, Lust Politics at Tyburn Gallery. Lady Skollie, born Laura Windvogel, tells The Creator’s Project that making art tackling these issues is “sometimes a bit tricky” in South Africa, a country which is alleged to have among the highest rates of rape and sexual violence in the world. “We have things like the ‘bro code,’ molestation, rape — all of these things happen and men aren’t held accountable,” she says. “I think accountability is key for people to heal and for people to feel heard and understood.”

Taking accountability into her own hands, Lady Skollie has a reputation for using her art to directly call out public figures who have been accused or imprisoned for rape. This includes a piece in honor of Khwezi, the woman who accused South African President Jacob Zuma of rape — an offense he was charged for before the case was dismissed the following year. Lady Skollie also made an artwork about South African rapper Okmalumkoolkat, which she tells us got a huge, largely negative response. She says, “Everyone came at me and asked ‘Why don’t you just let it go, he made a mistake.’ That is crazy, letting all of it go. We’re always expected to just ‘Let it go.'”

Kind of, sort of united we stand the ups and downs of competitive sisterhood, 2016, crayon, ink, collage and 24ct gold leaf on Fabriano, 170 x 170 cm.

But what can we expect from Lust Politics? Like her online personality, Lady Skollie’s exhibition is loud and proud, using vibrant colors to depict powerful women. The paintings in Lust Politics use fruit such as bananas and papayas, depicting the artist’s discontent with unrealistic sexual standards and the objectification of women’s bodies. The women vary in appearance, some are green and others have body parts made of fruit. According to Lady Skollie, this is her homage to Khoisan imagery, which “plays into my own identity as a colored woman. It also plays into self-hate that really is a killer within colored identity, because we do not have self-love.”

Seeing shortcuts in the phallic landscape, 2016, iny, crayon on Fabriano, 100 x 71 cm

The name “Skollie” comes from an Afrikaans word used to describe a shady character who deliberately breaks the rules and normally refers to a person of color. The artist’s racial identity is central to her work, something which affected her growing up in a predominantly white Afrikaner school in Cape Town. “Men would see colored women as objects and fetishize you,” she explains, an issue tackled in her earlier work Sometimes reluctantly I reflect on all the times I let my pussy to be colonised.

On the subject of consent 'Don't worry about it; around here RED MEANS GO!', 2016, ink, crayon and Fabriano, 100 x 71 cm.

It’s this fusion of confrontational gender critique and her own sensitive, personal story which makes Lady Skollie’s work so powerful. But while it’s clear the artist’s work has an activist slant, Lady Skollie says she’s “not under any misconceptions that I’m going to change the world because I’m painting paw paws [papayas].” Nevertheless, the artist’s finger-up to the patriarchy amidst the “bro code” culture adopted by men in South Africa (and beyond) is undoubtedly brave — and whether people agree with her or not, she’s definitely being heard. Lady Skollie explains that she is excited when she gets messages from women saying that her work has given them power to “confront people or not be quiet for the sake of a man’s comfort.” She continues, “It is time for people to feel uncomfortable, and for people to ask themselves very hard questions about how they relate to women, how they treat them, how they talk to them.”

Portrait of Lady Skollie, © Anthea Pokroy, Courtesy Tyburn  Gallery

You can see Lady Skollie’s Lust Politics at the Tyburn Gallery in London from January 19 to March 4, and check her out on Twitter and Instagram.

Related:

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Lady Skollie of Cape Town (b 1987).

"Sex, food and sleep. Human sexuality, 'the simplest and the most complicated thing' and about which, artist Laura Windvogel AKA Lady Skollie has a lot to say. Her colourful and playful work finds joy in the erotic and shines a torch on conceptions of desire, gender, attraction, sex, intimacy and consent, and not only in an African context. Her voice is crude, it's unashamed and she's taking on the task of destroying patriarchal, misogynistic norms whether it be via her art, or her skills on social media. She's here to evoke rage and I want one on my wall." 

https://beija.london/.../beijainspo-lady-skollie-of-cape...#

[nofomoartworld]

The Fearless Feminist Artist Taking Down South Africa's 'Bro Code'

Portrait of Lady Skollie, © Anthea Pokroy, Lust Politics, All images courtesy Tyburn Gallery, London, tyburngallery.com

Breaking taboos through paintings and digital media — including Twitter and a sex talk radio show, by addressing issues of gender, sex, pleasure, and abuse — Johannesburg-based Lady Skollie is colonizing London with her first solo UK exhibition, Lust Politics at Tyburn Gallery. Lady Skollie, born Laura Windvogel, tells The Creator’s Project that making art tackling these issues is “sometimes a bit tricky” in South Africa, a country which is alleged to have among the highest rates of rape and sexual violence in the world. “We have things like the ‘bro code,’ molestation, rape — all of these things happen and men aren’t held accountable,” she says. “I think accountability is key for people to heal and for people to feel heard and understood.”

Taking accountability into her own hands, Lady Skollie has a reputation for using her art to directly call out public figures who have been accused or imprisoned for rape. This includes a piece in honor of Khwezi, the woman who accused South African President Jacob Zuma of rape — an offense he was charged for before the case was dismissed the following year. Lady Skollie also made an artwork about South African rapper Okmalumkoolkat, which she tells us got a huge, largely negative response. She says, “Everyone came at me and asked ‘Why don’t you just let it go, he made a mistake.’ That is crazy, letting all of it go. We’re always expected to just ‘Let it go.'”

Kind of, sort of united we stand the ups and downs of competitive sisterhood, 2016, crayon, ink, collage and 24ct gold leaf on Fabriano, 170 x 170 cm.

But what can we expect from Lust Politics? Like her online personality, Lady Skollie’s exhibition is loud and proud, using vibrant colors to depict powerful women. The paintings in Lust Politics use fruit such as bananas and papayas, depicting the artist’s discontent with unrealistic sexual standards and the objectification of women’s bodies. The women vary in appearance, some are green and others have body parts made of fruit. According to Lady Skollie, this is her homage to Khoisan imagery, which “plays into my own identity as a colored woman. It also plays into self-hate that really is a killer within colored identity, because we do not have self-love.”

Seeing shortcuts in the phallic landscape, 2016, iny, crayon on Fabriano, 100 x 71 cm

The name “Skollie” comes from an Afrikaans word used to describe a shady character who deliberately breaks the rules and normally refers to a person of color. The artist’s racial identity is central to her work, something which affected her growing up in a predominantly white Afrikaner school in Cape Town. “Men would see colored women as objects and fetishize you,” she explains, an issue tackled in her earlier work Sometimes reluctantly I reflect on all the times I let my pussy to be colonised.

On the subject of consent 'Don't worry about it; around here RED MEANS GO!', 2016, ink, crayon and Fabriano, 100 x 71 cm.

It’s this fusion of confrontational gender critique and her own sensitive, personal story which makes Lady Skollie’s work so powerful. But while it’s clear the artist’s work has an activist slant, Lady Skollie says she’s “not under any misconceptions that I’m going to change the world because I’m painting paw paws [papayas].” Nevertheless, the artist’s finger-up to the patriarchy amidst the “bro code” culture adopted by men in South Africa (and beyond) is undoubtedly brave — and whether people agree with her or not, she’s definitely being heard. Lady Skollie explains that she is excited when she gets messages from women saying that her work has given them power to “confront people or not be quiet for the sake of a man’s comfort.” She continues, “It is time for people to feel uncomfortable, and for people to ask themselves very hard questions about how they relate to women, how they treat them, how they talk to them.”

Portrait of Lady Skollie, © Anthea Pokroy, Courtesy Tyburn  Gallery

You can see Lady Skollie’s Lust Politics at the Tyburn Gallery in London from January 19 to March 4, and check her out on Twitter and Instagram.

Related:

A Modern-Day Medea is Mythology’s 'Nasty Woman'

How David Bowie's Contemporary African Art Collection Challenged Conventions

Turning BBW into a Point of Pride, Not a Category of Porn

Intimate Collages Celebrate Queerness and Feminism in Print

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