Laura Windvogel, aka Lady Skollie, South Africa
He-was-like-this-big-Girls-talking-smack-at-the-pool, 2015.
About:
(quotes out of an interview published on the site ‘between 10 and 5’ by Jessica Hunkin, June 29, 2015)
It takes a snake to know a snake, 2015.
Laura Windvogel is a visual artist who works under the pseudonym of Lady Skollie and, if you’re familiar with that name, you’ll likely think of cheeky watercolour paintings and zines filled with relationship-centric accounts and confessions that are charming, surprising and often comedic in their candour. As an alter ego, Lady Skollie brings the two divergent aspects of Laura’s personality together and channels them into a single artistic expression that revolves around the themes of gender roles, sex, greed and lust. Her recent solo exhibition of new work, Ask for What You Want emphasises the importance of familiarizing yourself with your own desire.
Pool Party, 2015.
“I’m a huge fan of the Alter Ego. Building a character allows you to see it objectively. I’ve always felt that I was on either the Lady or the Skollie side of the fence. Creating an alter ego and ‘fictitious’ space where the two sides were co-existing in harmony allowed me to see how I was supposed to incorporate both aspects of my personality in my work and actually make the character real. So yes, producing work under the Lady Skollie pseudonym gives me freedom.”
Mural in Stevenson Gallery, 2015.
“Humour makes most things more bearable.”
selfportrait, a moment before social reintegration, 2015.
“Art is about confronting and making people, including yourself, feel uncomfortable. Art as social commentary, art as political commentary, art as racial, sexual, emotional commentary, it’s all important in the quest to evoke change.”
No Potassium for sister during Lent, 2015.
About the art situation in SA: “The disparity between the audience and the art. Weird gallery structures, the fact that there are still people that feel so alienated, racially, economically, from the art world that they never visit galleries. The fact that a newspaper couldn’t print the title of my work because it had the word ‘yonic’ in it? I don’t know, I could probably go on forever. There’s a lot of stuff wrong in the creative industries, not just SA.”
Courtesy Stevenson Gallery, SA