ESSAY | A showcase of artist couple, Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong

This year, RMB Latitudes Special Project, ESSAY focuses on the work and artistic lives of artist couple, Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong. Co-curated by Orlando Vincent Truter and Lucy MacGarry, this rare presentation brings together selected pieces from a body of work created over the past 25 years in the couple’s Magaliesburg Rock Garden in South Africa.

An innate rapport with the natural world is the heartbeat of works by artist partners and stewards of the earth, Geoffrey Armstrong and Wendy Vincent. Armstrong’s masterpieces sculpted from wood or choreographed with rocks, stones, wood and concrete reveal hidden forms and flows, elements of a symbiotic dance of discovery and revelation in an interconnected universe, where form evolves out of and dissolves into its milieu.  

The hidden life of nature depicted in the interplay of form and the absence of form, light and shadow, is a feature of Vincent’s works, which call for a suspension of one’s need to know and abandonment to the alchemical place of holding between void and form. “It is a feeling about nature,” Vincent says. “Plants are only deeply there.”

This show runs from 22 - 26 May 2024.