Toomey Tourell Fine Art: Lyndi Sales

Lyndi Sales

A brief rationale on the work:

All the works I created are part of the airline crash series. The Helderberg crash happened 20 years ago during the Apartheid era and remains unresolved and is still a controversial issue today in South Africa. At the time of the crash there were political sanctions against our country, there was an arms embargo that prohibited SA from importing any arms or substances used in warfare into the country. It is believed that the SA authorities were importing highly flammable substances on passenger Boeings as a result of the embargo. On leaving Taipei turbulence caused by a storm enabled the Ammonia petro chlorate to self ignite causing a fatal fire onboard leading the plane to crash a few hours later. Subsequently there have been a number of cover-ups to hide information such as the black box recordings, paperwork etc.

Lottery Globe illustrates the area on the ocean floor where the wreckage landed. An image of seaweed was cut into the map and then the negative pieces were repined and arranged to form a contour of the ocean floor. The seaweed is symbolic of bronchial branches (lungs and breath) and suggests that the ocean (and crash site) is alive with the breath of those that died as well as alive with the mystery of what went down. So the lottery coupons make reference to the notion that 159 lives (all aboard) were gambled with by the SA apartheid officials. There is other gambling imagery through this series such as playing cards, money, gambling chips etc. The Chinese paper money that is burnt as a sacrifice to those who have passed is also included due to the fact that half the passengers were of Chinese or Japanese decent.

I used to do a lot of hand cutting until I wanted to cut into materials such as life vest material and life raft rubber. This material is very difficult to hand cut so that’s when I started investigating lazar cutting. Conceptually I found that it was very relevant for this body of work – the crash being caused by fire-seemed to fit in with the burning away of paper, rubber, material etc. — Lyndi

Resume

Born July 24th, 1973. Live and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Education

2000	MFA (with distinction) UCT
1996	Diploma in Desktop Publishing – Hirt and Carter
1995	BA Fine Arts (with distinction) UCT
1991	Matriculated from the Johannesburg School of the Arts

Scholarships

2000	Katrina Harris Print Cabinet Scholarship
1999	McIver Scholarship
	UCT Research Council Scholarship
1998	Hoggard Insurance Brokers Scholarship
	Jules Kramer Scholarship for Art
	Centre for Science and Development Scholarship
1992-5	Sky Products student bursary

Exhibitions

2009	In Transit, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
	Galerie maria Lund, Paris France
2008	Holland Paper Biennale, Museum Rijswijk, Holland
	TRANSIent, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2007	1 in 11 000 000 Chances & works at the Dieu Donne Papermill NY, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2006	2006 – Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
	Group show – Art on Paper, Johannesburg
2005	Finding you – Collaborative show with ceramic artists, AVA, Cape Town
2004	ABSA Atelier Art Competition – ABSA Gallery, Gauteng
	Pulp – art on paper group show – Bellville Art Association Cape Town
	Miniatures – Art on Paper art Gallery – JHB
2003	Anomaly solo show – AVA, Cape Town
	ABSA Atelier Art Competition – ABSA Gallery, Gauteng
	Artklop Atelier top ten finalists – Potchefstroom
	Soft Serve Ydesire – Castle, Cape Town
2002	Book Arts group show – Pensacola Museum of Art- USA
2001	Ancestral Journeys – solo exhibition, Joao Ferreira – Cape Town
	ABSA Atelier Art Competition – Gauteng
	Goodman Gallery solo exhibition – Gauteng
	Hoerikwaggo South African National Gallery – Cape Town
2000	Soft Serve at the South African National Gallery – Cape Town
1999	Postcards from South Africa group exhibition – New York
1998	Printexchange Group Exhibition – Grahamstown
	4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints – Japan
1997	London Printmakers Council annual show – London
1996	New Voyages group exhibition – Gauteng
	London Print Workshop annual show – London
1995	Circus – solo show at the Association for Visual Arts – Cape Town
&nbsp:	Amateurs – Belville
1991	Sanlam Travelling exhibition

Teaching Experience

2000-2006 

Part-time lecturer in printmaking and book arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT

Awards

2006	Awarded the Vermont Studio Centre residency in USA for 2007
	Top ten finalist in ABSA Atelier Art Competition – Gauteng
2003	ABSA Atelier Art Competition top ten finalists – Gauteng
1996	London Print Workshop 1st prize award winner – London
1995	Printmaking student of the year award – Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
	Amateurs – graphics art award winner – Belville
1991	Sanlam award winner

Reviews and Press

Cape Times – 27 September 2006 – review by Melvyn Minnaar 

Die Burger – 27 September 2006 Helderberg-ramp se siele gedenk – interview  with Laetitia Pople 

SAFM – 23 September 2006 – 30-minute radio interview with Nancy Richards House and Leisure A cut above – March 2006 

Top Billing – December 2005 

Tygerburger – 26 February 2004 

Cape Times – review by Melvyn Minnaar – 22 August 2003

Business Day – review by Suzanne Joubert 26 August 2003

Die Burger – review by Cobus Van Bosch – 14 August 2003

Artthrob – web site – November 2001, “Ancestral Journeys” review by Tracy Murinik

Kunskufees art program – 21 October 2001, KYKNET, DSTV

SAFM radio station – 17 October 2001, Michele Constant show

Business Times – 16th October 2001, review

Cape Times – 15 October 2001, Tonight, Arty fact review by Lucinda Jolly section 

Sunday Times – Metro, 07 October 2001 

Beeld – 10 May 2001 review pg.2 

Financial Mail – magazine 2 May 2001 review, pg. 85 

Top Billing – magazine program, April 27 2001, SABC 3, 7min 

702 Radio – April 21 2:30, Jenny Celliers p.m. show 

The Star – April 21 2001, Exhibition news 

Style – magazine, April issue 2001, pg. 76 – Artist notebook feature Shadow Boxing

 E-Arts – TV news program, December 2000 – Hoerickwaggo exhibition at the SANG 

Monday Paper – Dec 11-17 2000 Volume 19, pg. 5, Exhibition reflects on the Past 

Cape Times – May 2000, Soft Serve, review by Bernita Munditz 

Cape Argus – March 1996, Monsters lurk in Sales’ big-top

Cape Argus – March 1996, Comerford coming

Cape Times – March 1996, Feast of exhibitions to open

Bellville Newspaper – 1995, Art award

Publications

2006	Artworks in Progress, Journal of the staff of Fine Art UCT, Volume 8 , 2006

Collections

 ABSA, Nando’s Ernst and Young, Hollard, Santam, Sasol, South African Breweries, Telkom and UCT collections – South Africa National Gallery of Art – Washington, DC, USA, Library of Congress – Washington, DC, USA, University of Northern Illinois – Dekalb, USA, McGill University – Montreal, Canada, Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection Florida Atlantic University, USA Jack Ginsberg artist book collection – South Africa

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