Life and Death Drive ‘Magic’ of South African artist Bronwyn Lace

Bronwyn Lace’s suspended horse skeleton in a gallery in Johannesburg (Photo: B. Lace)

Bronwyn Lace, whose art is described as “beautiful” and “magical” (Photo: B. Lace)

The artist enjoys working with monofilament fishing line, which she used here to suspend thousands of fishing flies (Photo: B. Lace)

Lace also secured pieces of glass from a church window using fishing line (Photo: B. Lace)

She says she loves the way that light interacts with fishing line, saying it adds substance and meaning to her works (Photo: B. Lace)

Another view of Lace’s suspended horse skeleton (Photo: B. Lace)

Once again she used fishing line to hang the bones of the horse to form what some viewers saw as a mythical, prehistoric creature (Photo: B. Lace)

People wander through a Lace exhibition at a gallery in Johannesburg (Photo: B. Lace)