David Krut Podcast

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We have an interesting podcast for you today, though it is somwhat in two parts. To start us off, we have the Alexis Schofield, who recently came into the workshop to explore monotypes with collaborative printer Roxy Kaczmarek, taking us through his practice. Then we have David Krut and Roxy Kaczmarek in conversations, exploring Schofields work further. 

Alexis Schofield (b. 1982) is a painter who creates impressionistic compositions based on found photographs, his own personal archive and, more recently, images generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Utilising charcoal drawings, pouring inks and oil painting on raw canvas, Alexis seeks to create meaning through the layering of materials and textures.

Hello listeners, and welcome to an unusual episode of the David Krut Podcast.

Today, welcome guest host Stephen Hobbs and he sits down with Murray James Turpin to disucss the later's current exhibition Between Memory and the Material.

And we are back again listeners!

In this episode, David Krut sits down with our latest workshop intern, Letlotlo Komane to discuss her experience working at the David Krut Workshop, as her studies at Michaelis and plans for the future.

Letlotlo Komane is a Johannesburg-born visual multimedia artist currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, where they are completing their studies at Michaelis School of Fine Arts. Working across sculpture, photogrpahy, installation and
material experimentation, Komane’s practice explores themes of memory, identity, spirituality, loss and cultural inheritance.

Drawing from personal histories and cultural practices, their work investigates how materials can carry emotional, spiritual and political meaning. Through the use of concrete, calico fabrics, salt, archival imagery, ceramics and found objects,
Komane creates immersive works that reflects on Black womanhood, ancestral connection, safety, trauma, and healing. Their practice often navigates the tension between vulnerability and protection, using materiality as a language through
which personal and collective histories can be remembered and reimagined.

Komane’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions, including Interwoven Defiance at Ramushu Art Gallery, where they presented a new iteration of their installation Ke Mo in honour of Women’s Day. Through their multidisciplinary approach, Komane seeks to create spaces that evoke intimacy, reflection, and connection while challenging inherited social and histroical narratives.

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David Krut Podcast is pleased to return with a conversation between David Krut and one of our latest collaborating artists, Diego Masera.

In this podcast the two discuss Masera's past, present practice and latest exhibition HOPE/Against the Grammar of Violence, opening on the 25th of July at David Krut Arts located at 151 Jan Smuts Avenue.

Diego Masera is a former diplomat and cultural interlocutor whose work explores international exchange, social dialogue, and contemporary cultural production. Drawing on his background in international development, environmental policy, and work with communities affected by inequality and climate crisis, Masera approaches art as a form of knowledge capable of expressing what political and institutional language often cannot.

In 2026, Masera and David Krut had a chance meeting where they found themselves discussing the artist’s practice and his installation, Home – ikhaya, NIROX sculpture park. This encounter resulted in David extending and invitiation towards Masera to come into the workshop and explore printmaking. In March of that year, Masera began his collaboration with Roxy Kaczmarek, working on a body of monotypes and other works of paper.  

Hello listeners, and welcome back!

In this lastest episode of the David Krut Podcast, one of our printers', Roxy Kaczmarek sits down with post-disciplinary artist and curator Nkhensani Mkhari to discuss his new show with David Krut Projects and his time colloborating with the David Krut Workshop.

This weeks episode brings a conversation between art writiers Ashraf Jamal and David Mann with our operations manager Robyn Woolley. This conversation comes ahead of the launch of Ashraf Jamal's new book African Art: The ARAK Collection happening at the Blue House at 151 Jan Smuts Avenue on the 24th of February. Join us for a wonderful evening featuring a discussion between Ashraf Jamal and Kagiso Pat Matloa moderated by David Mann. RSVP now at [email protected]. The event starts at 17:30 for 18:00.

You can also find David Mann's award-winning short story collection, Once Removed, in store, as well as Ashraf Jamal's own short story collection, The Shades. 

In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, we take a break from Practitioners in Conversation to explore one of our latest exhibitions. Our bookstore manager Alison Kane sits down with artist Bevan de Wet to discuss his sculptural paper work that are featured in Surface Tension. 

Surface Tension will is on show at our gallery at the Blue House, 151 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkhurst from the 1st of February to until mid-March 2025. 

Welcome back listeners. This final episode of Practitioners in Conversation was recorded by Nathalie Viruly in Cape Town a few weeks after she recorded the first two episodes with David Krut. In it, she explains more about the life of artist Ulises Carrión and his love for books and bookstores.

Hello listeners. 

In todays episode of the David Krut Podcast Nathalie Viruly continues her conversation with David Krut. She and David Krut discuss her masters research on book shops, exploring what such places are and what they could be. 

Welcome back David Krut Listeners, and happy 2025. This year we will be continueing our latest series of podcasts, Practioners in Conversation. In this weeks episode, we welcome art writer and curator Nathalie Viruly to the Blue House as she discusses her work and her master's studies with David Krut.

(NB: In the Podcast David Krut refers to Nathalie's booth at the Cape Town Art Fair last year. He states that the sold out work was created by her co-founder, Michael Tymbios. In truth, these works were created by Selwyn Steyn. Apologies for the confusion)

(Produced by Alison Kane)