Textile Art - Communal Landscape x Renée Rossouw

This woolen wonder is the first of our textile art series. It is a project close to our hearts. The artwork is an adaptation of Renée Rossouw’s original wooden sculpture titled ‘Communal Landscape’ which intrigued Zydia’s curiosity during a visit to Renée’s sunny art studio in Cape Town. 

Renée explained that she created the wooden sculpture from wood off-cuts during lock-down time.  The artist made it her mission to purposefully use materials on hand to create something beautiful from ‘nothing’.  The concept of the artwork exists as a ‘failed’ self-portrait, depicting shapes of a woman’s body.  

The architectural artwork with its 3D reliefs sparked Zydia’s interest and she envisioned it as a majestic textile piece whilst staying true to Renée’s initial intention of creating it by hand using environmentally friendly fibers. 

South African artist and architect, Renée Rossouw, has collaborated with Something Good Studio on various projects – the one as fun and experimental as the other. Collectively, they decided to reinvent the artwork using hand-dyed wool to match the original artwork. They chose a majestic size to capture a ‘wow-moment’ which is certainly true when observed IRL.

The soft sculpture lives beautifully installed on a wall. It is tufted in a robust manner with mesh backing which could also be used as a functional artwork in the form of a rug on the floor. 

This project was commissioned by Johannesburg based art gallery, Candice Berman Gallery. The first of the highly limited edition series of 3 is available to view and purchase at the gallery, see here for more details. 

PRODUCT INFO

EDITION: Limited edition of 3 + 1 Artist Proof 

LEAD TIME: Edition 1/3 is available to view and purchase at 223 Jan Smuts via Candice Berman Gallery. Edition 2/3 & 3/3 are made to order per request with a 6-8 week delivery lead time. Custom sizes can be considered on 'made to order' items. 

FABRICATION: 100% wool, hand dyed to specification. Hand tufted with mesh backing. The piece is approximately 5cm thick, the black lines of the artwork are raised by means of a thicker tuft

COLOURS: Black, cream, cobalt blue, green, red, dusty pink, light blue

SIZE/S: Large: Main work: 200 x 284cm + floating dot: 31 x 34cm (on display). Medium: Main work: 150 x 213cm + floating dot: 23 x 25cm (made to order)

CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Professional clean, or spot clean with hair shampoo & water, flat dried away from direct sunlight

HOW TO ORDER: Kindly reach out to us for more information. We are happy to assist :)