DAVID SOUTHAM

February 4, 1994

 

David Southam, a third year student at the Technikon, decided, like Marrins, Strode and Fox before him, to have an exhibition at the FLAT. This process of exhibiting off‑campus, initiated back in 1990 was by now common practice amoung younger students.
David Southam’s show included painted and printed works with graphic symbols. A press release was sent to Marianne Meijer and she came to the exhibition and covered the show in her Art Beat column. The article included a photograph of Southam and his work, with Moe, Barry and myself. (The three primary FLAT gallery organizers at that time.) It read:

The gallery aims to create a platform for more experimental art; such as performance, installation, and video; media the more established galleries may shy sway from.[1]

As was noted in this writing, we continued to be defined as an alternative space in contrast to the more established spaces in Durban, such as the Durban Art Gallery (DAG) and the Natal Society for the Arts (NSA).