A TOOL FOR SOCIAL MEDIATION, RESEARCH AND SHARING

Free and open to all thanks to ongoing support from the town of Graulhet (France) and the Scalabrini Center in Cape Town (South Africa), the workshops greet groups of five to twelve people around a theme dealing with identity and parenting. The project has allowed the integration and mixing of social and ethnic groups, with participants joining through word of mouth. Participants bond, the Body Maps grow and develop throughout the life of the workshop, transform themselves through their interpretation by others.

At the end of each series of workshops, that were worked on horizontally are raised and exhibited, taking on a new perspective.

“Exhibiting these works is an integral part of the therapy : the works become history, the trace of a process, a thinking out, a progression. These works, in which Beauty is not an objective, have an esthetic appeal of their own, one that resonates.”
Sylvie Groschatau, Processus créatifs en Art-thérapie - éditions Profac 2009

 Our main partners for these projects ▴

DOWNLOAD : REVIEW OF BODY MAPS 2012 (French)

► Participation in the conference "THE HEALING AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN SOUTH AFRICA" - July 2014 - UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

DOWNLOAD : CONFERENCE PROGRAM / LECTURE by Sylvie GROSCHATAU-PHILLIPS

Info : www.dramaforlife.co.za

SOCIAL MEDIATION

WOOD ZILL LLA RULE AT OUDE MOLEN VILLAGE IN CAPE TOWN - Workshop October 2014

Taking these kids to a camp to us is already an achievement.
We have high hopes that when they leave your place these kids won't be the same again. Even us as their leaders will come ut of the camp with more experience and skills that will later help us in inter-acting with them better and productively in future.

We would love them to take part in most if not all of the activities you offer in your place. We would also love to see them getting hands on, wise words from time to time from your team will be much appreciated.

Facebook Page of Wood Zil Lla Rule - Facebook Page of Oude Molen Food Garden Village

Info about Oude Molen : www.oudemolenecovillage.co.za

Pictures of Body Maps workshops in France & South Africa ▼

SYL’BATIK Batik classes

Batik is a technique of wax-resist that originated in Indonesia and is used all over Africa. Colours are applied onto the fabric with a spouted tool called a tjanting, a brush or a stamp. The applied wax resists dyes and therefore allows the artisan to colour selectively.
You will experience during the course of the workshop a unique technique of hand painted batik which allows for a greater variety of colours and patterns, contrasts and harmonies.

What else you should know ?

Beginner or confirmed Designer, Sylvie's expertise will help you create your own special artwork.

About Syl’Batik :

Batik is my passion. I use a tjanting, patterns, colours, and transparencies to create artworks and fashion. Originally Parisian, I lived and worked in Cape Town’s fabulous Oude Molen echo Village for 20 years, creating as Syl’Batik.

I opened my new studio in France where I will share with you my unique technique of hand painted Batik in a friendly environment.

See our new web site : www.luzine.net/sylbatik - Inquiries : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

▲ Batik classes

Film "Syl'Batik 2016 Cape Town Carnival"

Syl'Batik was invited to participate in the creation of a six-meter long airship for the "Air Float" tank designed to appear in the Cape Town Carnival on March 14, 2015.

In case film doesn't show on some tablets or phones, click here to watch on YouTube

SYL’BATIK

Hand crafted original creations

From fashion to accessories to home decoration, theatre sets and events, the versatility of Syl’Batik allows a wide variety of patterns, colours, size and shapes to explore the artist’s whims, client’s themes and current trends.

Whatever your needs and ideas,  Syl’Batik will create unique pieces to enhance your event and lifestyle.

Let us colour your desires !

Creation of unique pieces :

Syl’batik  has developped a unique technique of hand painted batik on silk and cotton. She uses tjanting, patterns, colours and transparencies to create large original artworks that participate every year to events and exhibitions as well as being in private collections, in France, Mexico and South Africa.

Inspiration : The formidable nature of Africa and France’s colourful landscapes combine in my work to provoke a sense of “colour-fullness” which I like to associate with transparencies.
Process : I use tjanting (which is a spouting tool traditionally used in Java to design patterns using hot wax) layers, colours and transparencies to create large original hand painted artworks on silk and cotton.
Batik is an ancient printing technique on fabric using WAX as a resist.  Unlike traditional Batik I do not use dye baths but hand paint every inch which allows me a wide variety of colours and super-impositions.motifs.

The creative process is quite physical : the pieces are often 350+ x 220 meters which I “layer” with wax and paint. It is a long term process where patterns and colours are applied successively to create intricate motifs.

Chiapas, Mexico, 1997. Working on large satin pieces, using lights and transparencies my Batik participated to the Chamula Indigenous Festival and a few months later, I put up my first exhibition with Galeria Mas Medula in Mexico City  : 8 large Batik were sold on the first night. So there was passion and incentive!
I made Cape Town my home where I started creating under the name of Syl’Batik.
I have, through all these years, developed a very unique technique of Batik almost obsessively detailed and hand painted. I work mostly on silk and cotton to create artworks for Events and on commission. I associate with tailor LC Collection to create my own range of home decoration and accessories and with Fashion Warior Masa Mara to create our range of men and women’s wear.

Check www.sylbatik.wordpress.com

Private Collections and Group exhibitions : 

“Rues d’été 2018” - “25kgWhat” - “La Plaque Tournante” - “XXXL” - “Les Journées du patrimoine” with Artvistar and the city of Graulhet,  Domaine de Cantalauze in France 2018 - the Baardskeerdersbos Art Route 2016 & 2017, "Les Escales de Saint-Nazaire 2016"- "Cape Town Carnival 2015"

Exhibitions with the Malpitte Artivists : “5 Elements", Oude Molen Village, "SoftServe" @ Iziko National Gallery & the Cape Town City Festival.

France : Galerie Catherine Clare, Christian Lacroix, Galerie Annie Stansal, Kursaal.

Arts & Community Projects : 

Art therapy with Youth at Risk, Oude Molen Village - Art therapy sessions for youth at risk, offered since 1999 in our workshops at Oude Molen Village, Cape Town. We offer the participants various approaches : ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting and batik, as support for a personal reflection on a chosen theme.

"Teaching Batik to Art teachers" : Community project Crossroads, Cape Town, in partnership with the artist Jeannette Unite.

Art therapy with the patients of the Valkenberg Mental Hospital Cape Town : art therapy workshops offering the technique of batik on small works in silk or cotton.