Shape-shifters
Angus Taylor and Rina Stutzer are an absolute force in the South African art world. Not only are they both well-respected artists, they also run one of the country’s most advanced sculpture studios and foundries, Dionysus Sculpture Works (DSW), which casts a good number of the country’s most respected South African fine artists, including Deborah Bell, Joni Brenner and Norman Catherine.
Taylor has created some of the country’s most recognizable large sculptures, often combining materials like bronze, steel and stone, although he works with more ephemeral materials such as rammed earth or packed thatching grass, too. Sometimes stacked stones in the form of reclining giants evoke some of man’s most ancient interactions with earth.
He is probably still associated foremost with his figural work – usually male figures, hard to define when it comes to age or
