Janjaweed by Kevin Brand

June 30.06.22 - August 13.08.22 

Main Gallery, Mezzanine and the New media room

When children in the refugee camps along the border of Dafur and Chad were given crayons and paper, they drew remarkable scenes from their unique perspectives of the genocide in Darfur and how it affected them. Moved by the drawings, which he found published in a local newspaper, Kevin started sculpting the Janjaweed installation. It represents a three-dimensional take on a drawing by a child named Doa, from Sudan.

Kevin Brand was born in 1953. He lives as a sculptor in Cape Town. He graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1982, working in various media. Kevin served on the selection committee of the AVA in the early 1990s, and has had numerous exhibitions at this venue. He is the recipient of prestigious awards amongst which the Mercedes-Benz award (2008). I am now in a position to embark upon a full-time career as an artist.

Kevin’s work features in the collections of the Iziko Museum Group National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Sanlam, Sasol, MTN, Vodacom, Didata, Arabella Sheraton, Daimler AG and others.