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)