Jacques Mollentze

Jacques Mollentze is an artist working from Third Floor Studios in Woodstock, Cape Town. He trained in graphic design and brand communications at Vega School of Brand Leadership (BA, 2014). His practice now moves between oil painting, hand-built ceramics, sculpture, installation and performance.

 

Clay is where he thinks. Oil is where the work meets the public. Everything ends up as installation: a
place you are taken into. His public installation Palm to Soul has been built at AfrikaBurn, Spirit Fest Africa and Wolfkop Weekender. His ceramic performance Mother, made with Very Superella, holds the feminine and the masculine as one whole.

His current body of work, A Chorus Of..., overlaps his family's photo archive with photographs of his own queer life, in oil and in clay, as performance and as installation.