ARTIST STATEMENT
Juan Stockenstroom is an emerging photographic artist with an irreverent approach to playing with imagery. Curious about the way in which visual content impacts society, Stockenstroom’s work focuses on the mundane and subtle twists of everyday life, which, when forced in the post-production process creates images of intriguing visual-hyperbole.
BIOGRAPHY
As a child Stockenstroom excelled at drawing and loved to make comic books filled with his own imaginary characters. Later as an adult, he enrolled in life drawing classes at Central St Martins, London. During his course, he became frustrated with the process of achieving realism in his sketches as he preferred to distort the shapes and proportions of his characters. This is still key in his work which plays out in his use of digital manipulation.
Fiction plays a big part in his work. He is influenced by the over-dramatized performance, hard lighting, technicolor and eerie cinematic orchestral music of vintage American horror, thriller and Sci-fi cinema. Other influences include Francis Bacon, Cubism, and William Blake.
CONTACT
e: studio@juanstockenstroom.com
t: (South Africa) +27 (0) 765529270
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS,AWARDS & PRESS
Education:
2002 City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts, South Africa
2010 Central St Martins, London, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 PH Centre - Photography Gallery, Cape Town - South Africa
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 Thread Count - Unseen Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Nuit de l’Année at Les Rencontres d’Arles - France
2014 Cape Town - Month of Photography – South Africa
Awards:
2017 IPOY Award - Fine Art - 2nd Winner - Silver
2013 Colour Awards - Honourable Mentions - Fine Art
2013 Colour Awards - Honourable Mentions - Portraiture
2012 Lucies International Photographic Awards - Honourable Mention - Fine Art
2012 Lucies International Photographic Awards - Honourable Mention
Print Publications:
2018 Art Africa Magazine (Interview) - Issue 12
2018 Fogtdals FotoTestamente, Photos I will always remember, Denmark
2017 Der Greif -10th Jubilee Edition, Germany
Online Publications:
2018 Between 10 and 5
2018 African Digital Art
2018 Aint-Bad - Interview
2017 Der Greif Guest Blog
2017 Der Greif Artist Feature
2017 Paper Journal
2017 The Latent Image
2017 Subject Matter
2016 Igant
2016 African Digital Art
2015 Between 10 and 5
2014 Between 10 and 5
Workshops and Lectures:
2017 Lalela Project / City Varsity
2014 Cape Town School of Photography