Portfolio
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The Poseidon Adventure: S. O. S
“The impact of social media on my work has been profound. As my proficiency on social media sites grew with the use of certain visual-centred...
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#luansview
For the past three years I have continuously taken an Instagram of the sunrise as seen from my studio in Cape Town. Having worked with...
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Mappa Mavis
Mappa Mavis This large reverse glass painting and mixed media work was made for the group exhibition EMPIRE, curated by Emma Van Der Merwe at...
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The Poseidon Adventure
A ‘project’ that roughly started in 2013. The title is lifted from the 1972 film but only acts to dramatise and to highlight the tendency...
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Black Swan
‘Black Swan’ was exhibited at Dawid’s Choice Gallery in Johannesburg in March 2013. Detail: “The black swan theory or theory of...
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Silent Exit
The genesis of Luan Nel’s latest exhibition at Art on Paper Gallery is a couple of one gallon tins of wall paint dating from the...
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Smallville, SA
Johannesburg-based Luan Nel’s first solo exhibition in KwaZulu Natal entitled ‘Smallville SA’, met with great acclaim. Nel bases his works on...
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Hobby Heroes
In Hobby Heroes Luan Nel appropriates the miniscule plastic figures from specialist train set kits, so beloved of the Hobbyists for whom trains, and anything...
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Still Life
A joint exhibition with Hentie Van Der Merwe at The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. ‘Rose’ Oil on canvas, 50cm x 70cm ‘Holmese Poirot’ Oil...
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Silence/Violence
KAPOK/WIND This installation was part of the project Silence/Violence curated by Greg Streak in Nieuw Bethesda and Durban respectively. Kapok/Wind was part of the Silence...
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8989km Every Time
With this body of work I explored the concept home, specifically my sense of home/place whilst living in a foreign country. During my two years...
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SASOL New Signatures Revisited
This work was first exhibited on The Sasol New Signatues exhibition at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn. It was curated by Clive van den Berg....
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Onthou en Vergeet
Onthou: Vergeet: Vergeet (detail): For the Exhibition ‘Lustwarande, Pleasure Garden’ in Tillburg, The Netherlands. Curated by Chris Driessen and Marianne Brouwer. This work is an...
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Urban Futures Project
This work was part of the Urban Futures Project in Johannedburg, 2000. It involves a bronze sculpture of a pigeon like to ones found...
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Dutch Landscape: The Sea
Set of 5 photographs, done in collaboration with Ilya Rabinovich. These were taken on the Dutch coastline, behind the seawalls, facing the North Sea.
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Kisheniev-Johannesburg
This project ‘Kisheniev-Johannesburg’ was a collaboration with the Moldovan-Israeli artist Ilya Rabinovich. In 1999 we did two journeys together to our respective places of earliest memory....
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Taking Stock
‘Pa se Tent’ form the exhibition Taking Stock at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1997. “My work is a white Teflon inflatable, entitled Pa se...
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Lumps of Metal
This ‘Lumps of Metal’ project was first exhibited in The Johannesburg Planetarium. Both as objects placed whithin and amongst their permanent exhibition of telescopes and Astronomical...
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