Taxi-003: Jeremy Wafer: Artists Book

ext by Lola Frost, 100 pages; 24 color; soft cover; with French and Dutch translations; David Krut Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0 620 27380 1

Jeremy Wafer is a Durban-based artist who received his BA degree from the University of Natal and his Masters in Fine Art degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1987. Since then, his sculptural and print work has remained informed by an artistic language which is modular, minimal and contemplative, and which varies in aesthetic effect and social purpose. By way of a conceptual sensibility that is at once rigorously structured and radically open, Wafer explores with extreme subtlety the complex territories of culture and identity. His talent for engaging these themes through work that is as visually seductive as it is socially potent has brought him numerous awards and international residencies, and he has exhibited extensively both locally and abroad. Wafer lives in Durban with his wife Colleen, who collaborates with him on most of his projects. He has taught at Natal Technikon since 1983. The richly illustrated monographic study discloses the quiet and enigmatic beauty of Wafer’s socially-engaged work.