Skyping with Lady Skollie – Jameson INDIE Channel

Laura Windvogel knows there’s power to be found in vulnerability. While other successful young artists may vigilantly guard their image, her voice is uncensored and rings authentic. She’s not afraid to get political, bringing real issues and her views on them into her work, and into her interviews. As her first international show, Lust Politics by Lady Skollie came to a close at Tyburn Gallery in London, Laura looks back on the body of large-scale works which interrogates gender politics: both personal and public, and pays tribute to the Khoisan and what could have been.

In our Skype call, she gets real on rape culture and South Africa’s chronic desensitisation to it, and talks unguardedly about twitter thuggery, making people cry, and the voices of cynicism, fear and judgment that live inside every artist’s mind.

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Passion Gap: a self portrait of the artist wrestling with her daddy issues; reaching misguidedly for the validation of men, 2016
Copyright the artist, courtesy Tyburn Gallery

Grabbing; groping, 2017
Copyright the artist, courtesy Tyburn Gallery

Vroeg ryp, Vroeg vrot: in various stages of ripening, being ripe, bring ready, being consumed and nothingness, 2016
Copyright the artist, courtesy Tyburn Gallery