Biography
Nathan Vuuren (1985) is a Johannesburg based artist who paints, draws and makes prints. Vuuren searches the internet and media for his source material. His painting process involves interpreting these images using carefully built up colour in a combination of glazes and layered paint. Through painting, he has created an imagined personal world that mines its narratives from popular culture. “I seek to find a metaphor for the aftermath of excess that I perceive in the world. I want to create an imagined reality against which each of us may then measure our own. To me this creative process is more meaningful, in a way, than the reality from which it is drawn.”
