André S Clements

Name: André S Clements
Address: 10 Victoria Str, Kensington B, Randburg, 2194, ZA
Telephone: +27828120549

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I make pictures.

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01/07/2026

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/toward-a-history-and-future-of-the-artist-statement/
"...For everyone’s sake—artists and the people and institutions working to support them—it would be better to welcome sense and nonsense, coherence and paradox, philosophy, poetry, and *maybe even a little more than a page*, all of which might truly represent, rather than reduce, artists and their art."

But what’s the alternative to our formulaic norm? Far from uncovering some definitive ur-statement, the selective history of artist statements offered here shows them to be as varied and complex as the conditions that brought them forth. Comprehensibility, tastefulness, and brevity were clearly no...

26/06/2026

A workshop I'll be facilitating inside *Eve Song — A Happening* at UP, for anyone in the drawing-and-looking game.

*Objectively · Objectifying · Objectification.* Models pose as objects (a chair, a doorway, a wave, a letter of a name) and the room draws them. The conceit takes objectification at its word: under active and revocable consent, what does the act become once it's chosen rather than done to someone? Drawing under that constraint pulls the hand past the portrait reflex toward weight, line and threshold, and the room watches, in practice, where reading a person as a thing stays dignified and where it would not.

It doubles as a live test of Nussbaum's argument that objectification, under consent and rough equality, need not be a harm, in the artist-and-model tradition that argument rarely reaches. Everyone in the room is a co-author: the models pre-brief and co-author the prompts, with veto over any of them. Open to all levels, materials provided.

Friday 7 August, 10:00–13:30 · R150 · 2-1 Gallery, University of Pretoria.
Bookings: WhatsApp André 082 812 0549 or Sue Clark 083 632 1206.

29/05/2026

https://andresclements.com/1457/how-to-see-eve/

No single painter made this Eve. Thirty-five of their paintings did. What you see is a standing figure gathered at a single axis, luminous through…

23/05/2026

"He never sat for this portrait." 310 photographs of David Bowie, equal-weighted, averaged into one face that none of them alone contains. Showing at The Viewing Room Art Gallery, Pretoria, until 15 June (curated by Gordon Froud).

He never sat for this portrait. What you see is a frontal face held in grey mist, the hair dissolving at its edges into a…

18/04/2026

Six sketchbook spreads from Sunday's life-drawing session at Carl Jeppe's (Arcadia, 12 April), with notes on the upright easel, the gravity-feed fountain pen and the idea of 'valences'.

The last post (The First and Final Arena) closed on the sketchbook as a kind of commit history written in flesh. Twelve new pages have…

14/02/2026

Built the thing I've been threatening to build for years — a proper digital home for Life Drawing Randburg. Session archive, artwork gallery, a claim system so artists and models can build their profiles through participation, attendance tracking. Strava for artistry, basically.

Ten-minute brief to an AI collaborator before people arrived for the session. Six hours later: working app, bespoke architecture, very little bloat. The future is here, just not evenly distributed — but it does seem more distributed than before.

I get a sense of vertigo from this technology. Also a sense of something like gardening.

Beta soon, if other commitments allow. Right now: parkrun, then the next lifedrawing session.

I had long wanted to build a content management system to hold the snapshots of drawing I take during our life drawing sessions. Been threatening to do so for years, but where to find the time? — even using off-the-shelf solutions would take more time than I really have, or that my particular blen...

25/01/2026

Torsos | 2026
Charcoal dust (from discarded drawings), charcoal, matte graphite, carbon-ink fountain pen (Japanese). A2 Hahnemühle sketchbook page, 42 × 30 cm.
Resolution is weighted: quiet zones hold the page open while ink-dense incident pulls focus. Text hovers at the edge of legibility—seen and read at once.

Some readings only appear after you stop trying to find them.

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