Georgina Gratrix’s ‘The Reunion’ layers family and self-portraiture

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Anya Brilus’s ArtThrob review examines how Georgina Gratrix’s exhibition The Reunion at Norval Foundation expands portraiture beyond physical likeness. The Durban-raised artist’s layered paintings of her parents are set against Nine Weeks, a sequence of daily watercolour self-portraits made during South Africa’s 2020 lockdown. Brilus interprets the contrasting materials and repeated faces as records of relationships, memory and changing emotional experience.

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