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This book is a tribute to Ainslie’s life and legacy – his vibrant painting practice, radical teaching philosophy, and deep commitment to community. Through a composite of voices, memories and archival material, it offers a multifacted portrait of an artist whi believed that freedom in art could help shape freedom in society.
Paul Stopforth produced several bodies of work that were startling in their courageous engagement with the repressive society in which he lived. The importance of Stopforth’s work is that he is an acute observer of the minutiae of everyday life and keenly attuned to the significance of ordinary objects, which he imbues with dignity and careful metaphorical significance.
Paul Stopforth is known in South Africa for work that comments on the harshness and injustices of life under apartheid. His art – comprising sculpture, drawing, painting, and printmaking – is not, however, narrowly political but instead occupies a space ‘between the material and the spiritual, imaging finitude and mortality’.
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