Walk through a valley at night, let the light calm the troubling past of history. Let memories guide you into the future as you contemplate the eland, snake, ostrich and walker. In Lady Skollie and James Delaney’s collaboration, the pair asks the viewer to imagine a story about humanity’s past, present and ultimate ideals. It’s time to consider what came before, what remains and what could have been.

Artist Lady Skollie (Laura Windvogel) uses ink, watercolour and crayon to defy taboos about sex, pleasure, consent, human connection, violence and abuse.

Her work is simultaneously bold and vulnerable, expressing joy and darkness of the erotic and the duality of human experience.

She has exhibited across South Africa, including ‘Good and Evil’ at Everard Read Johannesburg (2019), and ‘Bound’ at Everard Read Cape Town (2020), as well as internationally in Birmingham, London and Lagos. She won the prestigious FNB Art Prize in 2020.

James Delaney is a painter, printmaker, sculptor and green activist, exploring humanity’s relationship with nature. He has won awards from Business Arts South Africa and the South African Institute of Architecture, with his work exhibited in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Philadelphia and New York and featuring in collections at Merrill Lynch Bank of America, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Spier Arts Trust and the City of Johannesburg.

He is known for rehabilitating a public park, The Wilds, which included metal sculptures based on charcoal sketches – now popular landmarks.

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