Justine Mahoney,
is a figurative sculptor based in Cape Town.
Justine creates hybrid characters that deal with states of human transition and present alternative mythology for our times.
They begin as digital collages using photographic images drawn from an encyclopedic range of sources, including sci-fi movies, ’80s alternative magazines, erotica, traditional African sculpture and Neo-Classical art.
Brought to life in two dimensions, her figures are then sculpted in clay and cast in bronze.
MAGE
Justine’s second solo exhibition with Southern Guild, Mage, delves into the tangled web of transformation between adolescence and adulthood through a series of nine bronze figures and collages.
Each is an embodiment of a shift or struggle that the artist sees emerging in our zeitgeist, particularly among Generation Z.
“My characters hold up a mirror to what I feel is happening in our culture. They are my own personal myth-making.”
Each has its own back story – a fraught, and sometimes dark, struggle for self-mastery.
Mage is currently on show at Southern Guild in the Silo District.
Although the gallery remains closed, the exhibition can be viewed by private appointment.
