Practical answers about the current hang, the catalogue record and the ways to look at the work in person. If something below does not cover your case, the gallery reads every message sent through the contact page.
Four parts: the maker, the medium, the year and a short note on where the work was made. Read across a season, those parts let you follow one artist through several plates or compare how a painting and a linocut answer the same stretch of farmland.
It mirrors the physical hang room by room, in the same order. A note you take in front of a wall can be checked against the same wall at home, which is the main reason the sequence is kept rather than sorted by theme.
Close reading. It shows paper grain in a print and brush marks in a painting, details a small serif caption cannot carry on its own. Use it when you want to judge how a block was cut or how wet the surface of a canvas still looks.
Request it by email and it is sent to you. Four shows run each year, and each catalogue lists the works, the mediums and the places they came from, so a season stays readable after the hang comes down.
Selected editions are offered as print-on-demand. The catalogue states plainly which works are available that way and which are held only in the physical hang, so there is no guessing when you read a listing.
The Saturday walk-through moves through the rooms with the gallery team and suits a first look. A studio visit is arranged separately with a resident artist and suits a closer interest in how the work is made. Both are requested in advance.
Still unsure where to start? The contact page carries the address, phone and email for catalogue requests and visit arrangements. How enquiries are handled is set out in the privacy policy.
Reference questions, catalogue requests and visit arrangements all start in the same place. Write to the gallery or call, and say which room or which work you are asking about.
The Firs, 32A Cradock Avenue,
Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196,
South Africa
Use the phone line for booking questions about a walk-through or a studio visit.
Ask for the seasonal catalogue, a note on a catalogue entry, or a print edition enquiry.
The catalogue, the zoom view and the walk-through each answer a different kind of question. If you are not sure which one you need, the routes below are the plainest way through.
Each entry carries four parts: the maker, the medium, the year and a short note on where the work was made. Read across a season and you can trace one artist through several plates, or compare how a painting and a linocut answer the same stretch of farmland.
The online gallery follows the physical hang room by room, so a note taken in front of a wall can be checked against the same wall at home. The zoom view is the close-reading tool here: it shows paper grain in a print and brush marks in a painting, which a small caption alone cannot carry.
For anything the catalogue does not settle, write to the gallery directly. The seasonal catalogue can be requested by email, and the Saturday walk-through is the in-person way to look with the room in front of you.
The Firs, 32A Cradock Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa
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