Nuweland Gallery is pleased to announce details of a new solo exhibition by South African artist Dale Lawrence, whose exciting cross-disciplinary practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, performance, installation and text works. Broken Tools (06 November – 30 December 2021) will showcase various bodies of work made between 2016 and 2021. The exhibition is Cape Town-based Lawrence’s first solo exhibition in Europe.
Broken Tools will include several examples of Lawrence’s print output, including 32 monotypes created in response to the 2020-21 Covid pandemic, as well as earlier linocuts from 2016-17 exploring themes of labour, value and work, all recurring leitmotifs in Lawrence’s broader practice. These bodies of existing work will provide context to Lawrence’s ambitious new 2021 series, Relief on Hospital Floor, two large-scale abstract compositions resembling glitches. The images are based on randomized digital designs that the artist transposed to vinyl flooring from a large hospital in Cape Town and printed by hand using a using a spoon to compress the ink into the paper.