Wesley Pepper sits down with Zolile Petshane, a visual artist who works mostly in oil pastels and mixed media. They discuss his upcoming exhibition at Lizamore and Associates fine art gallery. Art lexical is a podcast where we talk art and art processes.

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Wesley Pepper: [00:00:00] Hey everybody, this is wesley pepper and you are tuned in to my podcast. Wesley Pepper’s Art Lexica, and it's brought to you by Spudcaster. And Baobulb, uh, we are into episode 46. Um, I normally. Just forget to mention what episode we in, you know, but I'm always aware what episode I was recording. So we're close to that number 50 Mark man.

[00:00:33] And that gets me really excited because I'm like, I may say in the episodes I wanted to do a give away and now it's getting more and more like a reality. Uh, but I'll keep you up to speed with that, especially on my social media. And you can always check me out on Facebook @wesleypepper. Twitter @wesleypepper and, and, and, or Instagram, or even LinkedIn at say by the same name, Wesley pepper, but so you can give me, uh, you can catch me, um, or either find out what else has been coming, um, or coming.

[00:01:02] And what's happening on the show on those, on those handles. Um, yeah, man, moving on, let's talk about, uh, or rather last week's episode, with Dipou from Obtain art gallery for coming through. Um, You know, remember we spoke about, um, that group show that they were doing. And, um, one thing that always that's sitting in my mind from episode was the whole virtual gallery space.

[00:01:26] That's something I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on. And, um, yeah, most definitely will follow up on that. Absolutely. For sure. Because yeah, I mean, as you know, we try to, um, focus a lot on how arts is adapting. To technology, um, how we're using it, um, and all that type of thing.

[00:01:45] And I think that's super cool. So that's something really cool to look forward to, uh, today's episode. Um, I've got somebody really, um, I think, um, quite large, um, you know, well, you know, we'll break up how I, what I mean in that in the interview, but today I'll be talking to Zolile Petshane. Um, Mostly about his, um, solo show coming up on the 4th of April Lizamore and Associates fine art gallery, um, title, chaotic CBD, uh, you know, like I would classify zolile as a abstract artist, you know?

[00:02:23] Um, cause he does this really fantastic, interesting conceptual work. Um, and he uses it in a more mixed medium, but I know it's more oil pastel based. Um, and if you're really familiar with the medium oil pastel actually has a very, uh, I think it's, um, you know, it's greens and, and reds got a, got a very specific look and feel, um, colour I'm talking colour and, um, and texture.

[00:02:44] And I know Zolile as an absolute master of that because. Um, I'm quite familiar. I mean, um, I mean, I know personally for the longest time, but, um, I'm also quite familiar with this technique and I know you started off a many many years ago when APS needed those monoprints. So, um, we’re kind of going to track that, uh, the history of his process and how it's led up to that because oil has been making some massive moves and big up brother to that.

[00:03:07] Um, so we would be unpacking all of that. Um, and his show, his processes and how he feels about covid because, um, yeah, man, it's. The politics that aren't, this vaccine is becoming more and more political and I'm, I'm, I'm getting some wild fucking stories around it. So if this time I, you know, I'm going to pick his brain about that, but we can be focusing more on his work.

[00:03:31] And, um, yeah, man. So big up to all the new listeners, um, new and old. Um, I know you out there, um, I know you were listening in, I know you enjoying what you're listening and that's. Fucking great. That's awesome. Thank you for that. Uh, you know, in the past episodes, I was, I was sort of giving you a, um, or rather voicing my opinion...