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ZAVICK

Address:

41 Glynn Street, 8000 Cape Town

Telephone:

0825566808

Description

Cape Town Artist. Artist Biography
Zavick Zaroff Botha aka Supadog was born in Vereeniging on March 25th 1970. His artistic journey began after he read Kringe in ‘n Bos (Circles in a Forest) by Dalene Matthee and was inspired to hitch hike to Knysna while in high School. He camped in an artists garden, & was allowed to work in his out door sculpture studio in a garden and has been creating art ever since.

Keywords

Art, Designers, Fashion, Creative, Fine Art, Abstract, Internships, Studio Space, Creative Residency Program, Supadog, Superstroke Art, Thupelpo, Cape Town National Gallery, Abstract Portrait Family, Voyage Ensemble, Thupelpo Print Making Workshop, Dondup Fashion Milan, Superstroke Art Movement

Company description

Zavick graduated in 1995 from East London Technical College with a major in printmaking and minors in painting and sculpting. He coined the term Quiltage in 2003 to describe his works fusing fabric and painting. In early 2005, he collaborated with German clothing designer Annette Görtz, where he began blurring the line dividing art and fashion Zavick received recycled jeans from South African men’s designer Shakur Olla and Italian design label Dondup. Zavick worked with rejected jeans as a resident artist in the Dondup men’s department. [At the time, the human genome was googled more than porn—Zavick connected human genes to human jeans.] Zavick heard a dog bark while working and the tagline “Jeans, man’s best friend” along with a dog image was born. Later the dog image was developed further and eventually became Supa’dog. Today, Zavick lives in Cape Town fusing fashion and art by recycling jeans and other fabric which he is given or discovers in the streets of South Africa. Zavick does not separate his life from his artwork and considers himself a living performance piece.

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