selected reviews, press, articles & essays

 

• Journal article published in Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 35:1 by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) – April, 2023 An Art of Nothing, an Art of Something: The Local in the Global or the Global in the Local

• Artthrob: 25 Years of Art Writing in South Africa (2023): Hot air- COP17 and the art of climate change 

• Nominated by Jenny Stretton for Helgaard Steyn Award for Sculpture, 2017 Helgaard Steyn award_nomination_2017

• Visi Magazine interview : August 27, 2013

 

Seeing Red, Feeling Blue : Commune1 Gallery 02-30 May 2013 reviews:

• Seeing Red, Feeling Blue (2013)review: Jose’ Ferreira

• Seeing Red, Feeling Blue (2013) Interview: Q&A Greg Streak : Leigh-Anne Niehaus

• Nothing lasts Forever Interview Greg Streak  solo exhibition Soledad Senlle Gallery, Amsterdam

 

• Harbour – group exhibition review: Peter Machen, artthrob, April 2009

 

• Exhibition stimulates in an odd way – review of Social Pattern :  Melvyn Minaar, Cape Times April6, 2009

 

• New Connections – DUT Staff exhibition : 10 -29 March 2009 Mapping a Dyslexic Heart  – compiled reviews: Professor Juliette Lieb Du Toit, Ian Calder, Andrew Verster

 

Accumulative Disintegration : Bank Gallery 24 July – 21 August 2008 reviews:

• Things fall apart review: Peter Machen, Weekend Witness, 16 August 2008

• Holding it together is a part of it review: Jose’ Ferreira

• Accumulative Disintegration – a critique: Carin Goodwin

• 031 interview : Vaughn Sadie

• The Art Cowboy reflective review : Peter Machen, The South African Art Times, September 2008

 

• Bathed in Light – The Light Show – review: Peter Machen, The South African Art Times, February 2008

 

Drift @ 1708 Gallery, Washington (Greg Streak & Ledelle Moe)

• Greg Streak + Ledelle Moe – review Dinah Ryan, Art Papers, p70, July / August 2007

• Primary Faith – Virginia Mackenny : catalogue essay for Drift 1708 Gallery, Washington, USA – 2007

• What Lies Between review: Andy Kozlowski, Style Weekly, January 2007

 

• 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa 2004 Greg Streak by Kathryn Smith – a major publication to showcase what South African art looks like after a decade of democracy and the country’s reintegration into the international community.

 

• Hiv(e) review: Brenton Maart, Art South Africa, vol. 02 issue 04,p78, 2004

• Making Art that Works – Zingi Mfeka: This Day (newspaper)

 

• Outpost 11 review: Paul Edmunds, Art South Africa, vol 01 issue 02, p59 2002

• Artthrob Outpost 11 review Sue Williamson  Artthrob Archive: Issue No. 63, November 2002

• Public Speaker  Outpost 11 catalogue text: Virginia Mackenny

 

• Violence / Silence review arthrob  Archive: Issue No. 60, August 2002

• Violence / Silence review : Nic Dawes / Kathryn Smith, Art South Africa, vol 01 issue 01 p50-51, 2002

• Disjunctive Dialogues – Conversations across Boundaries – Virginia Mackenny: catalogue essay for Violence / Silence (group exhibition) July 2002

 

• Flash Art : Group review – May / June 2001 p. 81

 

• Artthrob Artists of 2000:  Artthrob: January 2001

 

• A feature on an artist in the public eye: Greg Streak – by Virginia MacKenny, artthrob, February 2001

 

• !Xoe off-site review: Paul Edmunds, artthrob, November 2000

 

• Open-Circuit – review: Paul Edmunds, artthrob, November 2000

 

• Divine– Greg Streak / Andries Botha review: Virginia Mackenny, artthrob, May 2000 (click link and scroll down to bottom of page for review)

 

• At last, video as art and here at home, Benita Munitz, Cape Times (15/04/99), P 10

 

• Shapes echo our culture – Gloucestershire Echo – March 1998