KARLA Nixon will be giving an art demonstration this Saturday in Virginia.  Nixon will be hosted by The Durban based artist who works predominantly with paper said she hand cuts and sculpts intricate, images drawn from her surrounding environments. The Durban University of Technology graduate said her Fine Art degree focused on paper cutting as a contemporary art form.

“My most recent body of work explores transience and temporarily within urban spaces. It attempts to interrogate conflicting relationship within our lives; decay and fleeting beauty, new and old, creation and destruction, and development and  deterioration are a few contradictions we face on a daily basis.

“Paper is central to my art practice, whether it is cut, embossed or sculpted. Paper, being one of the most consumable commodities of our time, is an ideal choice of medium to refer to the fragile and temporal state of our lives today. The more the paper is cut into, the more fragile it becomes. The imagery is drawn from my immediate surroundings, whether it is of people, construction sites or decaying streets, I attempt to capture the diverse sense of impermanence.

“The day I found paper as a medium, not just as a substrate, was the day I found home. I hadn’t really been searching for a medium, I was on the road to becoming a painter, but you could say paper found me. There is something so magical about this very humble material, so incredibly transformative. The limits seemed endless for me, and I haven’t looked back since.”

The demonstration will run from 9am to 12noon at its usual venue, 2 Newport Avenue, Virginia. The entrance is just after Danville Park Girls’ High School in the Church Hall of The Blessed Sacrament.  Visitors pay R40 which includes refreshments.