'PENNY SIOPIS PAINTINGS' (2009) listening but also for its passionate

but also for its passionate call to defend democracy

the Mother City Queer Project was founded in 1994 by artists André Vorster and Andrew Putter

Often large and unruly

the captain’s deposition after the ship capsised in December 1794 off the coast of South Africa

Michael Smith

'PENNY SIOPIS PAINTINGS' (2009) listening but also for its passionateFrom the publisher: "Penny Siopis' large scale canvases draw on diverse sources for their imagery newspapers and books, other art, direct experiences; these images are violent, erotic, tragic and beautiful; atavistic and elemental as well as social and analytical. But the works are as much about materiality, chance and process, and the productive tensions between form and reference, and form and materiality, as Siopis describes in an accompanying