COLLABORURALATION is an in-house coined name for “Collaboration with rural-based creatives,” a successful project initiated by Thomarts Gallery to support and uplift rural communities into creative economies. The collaboration was executed during the isolations of COVID-19, both in Mpumalanga and Johannesburg. The project dually enhanced the creatives’ works into a contemporaneous DNA that befits Thomarts (contemporary art) Gallery.

Inspired by the diaspora of languages, and how the context changes against another language, the artists collaborated on 26 artworks of which had a letter of the alphabet. As language evolves, some of the letters are either translated, disposed of, and/or distorted just as the fading of languages to slang and away from natural meaning. Language has an inclusivity that binds, thus the project itself had to be both rural and semi-urban inclusive.
Each individual artwork, framed, measures a 146cm x 176 cm and are executed in panaromic format and potrait format exclusively.
Collaboruralation is an invigoration of a fresh aura of energy and colour.

Exhibition Opening: 06/02/2025

RSVP only: info@thomartsgallery.com

The exhibition is on display for 10 days from 6 Feb to 16 Feb 2025.