Archives: Projects
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Post-egoli-cene
Ellis house art building DEC 2025 (Group Show) ‘Post-eGoli-cene’ is a multimedia group art exhibition looking at the traces ofJohannesburg’s gold mining past in its contemporary post-extractive urban landscape. Mining in the Witwatersrand transformed the political, economic and social landscape of late 19th-century to early 20th-century South Africa, and the city of Johannesburg was at…
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The Sidewalk City
My interest in materials, networks, and the urban context of Johannesburg began quite a long time ago now. I’ve recently been doing some 3D scanning work, and thinking again about how we make the everyday city in light of recent events in Johannesburg around questions of informality and informal trading. I have been thinking about…
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ATMOS
A Studio Review of an ongoing body of work and reflection. The work presented here forms part of an ongoing body of work exploring the relationship between the body and the materiality of the post-mining city. Here i consider contamination of earth and air and the surface of the body, skin, and breath that might…
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African Urbanisms conference: Lithic Vitalities
I had the pleasure of re-curating my PhD work for the Urban Lab, African Urbanisms Conference in late 2024. Dr Brigitta Stone-Johnson is an architect, fine artist, creative practice lead researcher, and Lecturer at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning. Presents works from her PhD, ‘Wayfaring Stone,’ which explores the vial materialisms of the post-mining…
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Gatherings 2024 – SoAP Fassler Galley
GATHERINGS Brigitta Stone-Johnson 2024 (Brigs) Over the past years, my work has concerned itself with countering vague terrain within Johannesburg’s post-extractive urban terrains. These “Empty gaps” are counter-narrated as vital terrains by considering the materiality of the post-mining city as vital, vibrant, and active. An embodied habitas of drifting, gathering, carrying, collecting, and aggregating materials…
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MATERIALS, BODIES, FLOWS – 2018
“To tell a story with stone is intensely to inhabit that preposition, to move from solitary individuations to ecosystems, environments, shared agencies, and companionate properties. In the interstice between boulder and granite escarpment, between ecologist and mountain… to better know stone’s ways, mineral life emerges. This vivacity is, to use Jane Bennett’s apt word, vibrant:…
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Weather works (Process works) 2018-2021
Weather works 2019-2021 – Explore modalities of weathering materials, in the post-extractive terrains. There A3 individual cyanotypes form the process works for the larger prints 600x1000mm. Explore modes of weathering in cyanotype, weather with, tannin, copper, rust, ocher from the Witwatersrand ridge line. Ceramic tea set Glazed dinner set email to ask about pricing and…
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CATALOGUES
ATMOS 2025 This new body of work considers the question of the atmosphere of the post-mining city, and its particulate entanglements with the human bodied who reside there. Works Prices at R1500- Excluding shipping *Please state the name of the work/s and your shipping location for an accurate quote. Please allow a day or two…
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Wayfaring Stone (PhD)
Stone’s thesis addresses human-geological relationships, seeing Stone as a vital agent within Johannesburg’s post-extractive urban terrains. Using fine arts and grounded documentary practices, she developed a series of counter-narratives to those of extractivism, colonialism, and the impacts of the Anthropocene. They draw on a confluence of critical material concerns shared by the post-extractive cities of…
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Rust Works (2018-2021)
Works in rust, on paper, continue an ongoing exploration of, corrosion as a medium of weathering. Exploring corrosion as a medium of, urban soil despoliation in the post-extractive urban Terrains. Weathered 56 (A3) cyanotype and rust on archival cotton Weathered 50 (A4) cyanotype and rust on archival cotton Top works A3 and bottom works A4…