“Goliath’s practice is grounded in that recovery, with works that test how art can create space for trauma to unfold and unfurl – to be worked through relationally, laterally, personally – in the name of restoration through recognition. That is, to hold space for witnessing as much as to bear witness; not through language nor the intellectualisation of the horrors of systemic violence, but through the complex web of emotions and states that define its ever-shifting and far-reaching textures, both within the body and without.”
Stephanie Bailey,
Art Review read
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Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Gladys), 2023, oil stick & chalk pastel on paper, 76.5 x 56cm
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Gladys Nomfanekiso Mgudlandlu (1917-1979), artist
“Birds have always been my companions. I am a very lonely person. They are the only real friends that I have had. Sometimes I think I should have been a bird. I even paint like a bird. You will notice that all my landscapes are done from a bird’s view, high up and far away.”