Faye Spencer is a artist specializing in 2D work- painting, drawing and printmaking. Born in Durban in 1974, Faye now lives in the Natal Midlands.

“My creative practice is located around two main themes: conflict and solace. My exploration of conflict or disruption is largely explored through a series of works entitled “Office Politics’. The series comprises an extended engagement in paintings and drawings that utilise dogs and canine behaviour as metaphors for the workplace specifically, and the present social climate more broadly. The humour in these works is used to underscore disturbing trends in the workplace. The second main theme underpinning my practice is a search for solace. This is driven by a concern with what we value, and with those valuable things slipping from our grasp. I wonder how this loss could be avoided. One way is to immortalize what is valued and precious through painting, writing and other creative acts, and to use those wrought images as a refrain or a kind of mnemonic device. Work driven by this search tends to be focus on the natural world and the domestic realm, upholding what is precious in it, and often overlooked. These works appear light, the subject matter banal yet these works are created in order to hold on to what I fear is being eroded. I am compelled by my feeling that the modern world is a difficult place in which to live well and my creative practice as a whole is an effort to counter this feeling and heightens my feeling of connection with others. When I am not working in my studio, I teach art students whose visual art practice is related to the fields of drawing, printmaking book arts and painting. Teaching is a practice that is integral to my work as an artist, I find the dialogue set up in class and studio groups rewarding, probing and regenerative.” – Faye Spencer 

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