{"id":381,"date":"2016-04-03T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T05:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregstreak.com\/?page_id=381"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:08:13","slug":"texts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/?page_id=381","title":{"rendered":"texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;50px|0|50px|0&#8243; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;1080px&#8221; custom_width_percent=&#8221;80%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=&#8221;selected reviews, press, articles &#038; essays&#8221; 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Francis Group) \u2013 April, 2023 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/An-Art-of-Nothing-an-Art-of-Something-The-Local-in-the-Global-or-the-Global-in-the-Local.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1843\">An Art of Nothing, an Art of Something: The Local in the Global or the Global in the Local<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u2022 Artthrob: 25 Years of Art Writing in South Africa (2023): <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Hot-air-COP17-and-the-art-of-climate-change.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2125\">Hot air- COP17 and the art of climate change<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nominated by Jenny Stretton for Helgaard Steyn Award for Sculpture, 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Helgaard-Steyn-award_nomination_2017.pdf\"><strong>Helgaard Steyn award_nomination_2017<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Visi<\/strong> Magazine <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/visi.co.za\/content\/article\/2374\/this-little-piggy-went-to-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a><\/strong> : August 27, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing Red, Feeling Blue<\/strong> : Commune1 Gallery 02-30 May 2013 reviews:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Seeing-Red.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2042\">\u2022 Seeing Red, Feeling Blue (2013)<\/a><\/strong>review: Jose&#8217; Ferreira<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Seeing Red, Feeling Blue<\/strong> (2013) Interview: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/QA-Greg-Streak-Leigh-Anne-Niehaus.pdf\">Q&amp;A Greg Streak : Leigh-Anne Niehaus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nothing-lasts-Forever-Interview-Greg-Streak.pdf\">\u2022 Nothing lasts Forever Interview Greg Streak<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> solo exhibition Soledad Senlle Gallery, Amsterdam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artthrob.co.za\/09apr\/reviews\/kznsa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u2022 Harbour<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; group exhibition review: Peter Machen, artthrob, April 2009<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Social-Pattern_Cape-Times.pdf\">\u2022 Exhibition stimulates in an odd way<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; review of Social Pattern :\u00a0 Melvyn Minaar, Cape Times April6, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 New Connections &#8211; DUT Staff exhibition<\/strong> : 10 -29 March 2009 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dyslexic-Heart_reviews.pdf\">Mapping a Dyslexic Heart\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong>&#8211; compiled reviews: Professor Juliette Lieb Du Toit, Ian Calder, Andrew Verster<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accumulative Disintegration<\/strong> : Bank Gallery 24 July &#8211; 21 August 2008 reviews:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Things-fall-apart-_-Peter-Machen.pdf\">\u2022 Things fall apart<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0review: Peter Machen, Weekend Witness, 16 August 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Accumulative-Disintegration_revised.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2041\">\u2022 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Holding-it-together-is-a-part-of-it.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2073\">Holding it together is a part of it<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Accumulative-Disintegration_revised.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2041\"><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0review: Jose&#8217; Ferreira<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/critique-accumulative-Carin.pdf\">\u2022 Accumulative Disintegration &#8211; a critique<\/a><\/strong>: Carin Goodwin<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/031-interview.pdf\">\u2022 031 interview<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0: Vaughn Sadie<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Art-Cowboy-reflective-review.pdf\">\u2022 The Art Cowboy reflective review<\/a><\/strong> : Peter Machen, The South African Art Times, September 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/scribd.com\/doc\/4682377\/South-African-Art-Times-February-08-Gallery-Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2022 Bathed in Light &#8211; The Light Show<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; review: Peter Machen, The South African Art Times, February 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drift<\/strong> @ 1708 Gallery, Washington (Greg Streak &amp; Ledelle Moe)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/art_paper.pdf\">\u2022 Greg Streak + Ledelle Moe<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; review Dinah Ryan, Art Papers, p70, July \/ August 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Primary-Faith.pdf\">\u2022 Primary Faith<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Virginia Mackenny : catalogue essay for <strong>Drift<\/strong> 1708 Gallery, Washington, USA &#8211; 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Drift-review_style-weekly.pdf\">\u2022 What Lies Between<\/a><\/strong> review: Andy Kozlowski, Style Weekly, January 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa<\/strong> 2004 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kathryn-Smith-100_10.pdf\">Greg Streak by Kathryn Smith <\/a><\/strong>&#8211; a major publication to showcase what South African art looks like after a decade of democracy and the country\u2019s reintegration into the international community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hive_ArtSA.pdf\">\u2022 Hiv(e)<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0review: Brenton Maart, Art South Africa, vol. 02 issue 04,p78, 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hive_This-Day.pdf\">\u2022 Making Art that Works<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Zingi Mfeka: This Day (newspaper)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Outpost11_art-SA.pdf\">\u2022 Outpost 11<\/a> <\/strong>review: Paul Edmunds, Art South Africa, vol 01 issue 02, p59 2002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Artthrob-Outpost-11-review-Sue-Williamson.pdf\"><strong>\u2022 Artthrob Outpost 11 review Sue Williamson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Artthrob Archive: Issue No. 63, November 2002<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/public-speaker_gin.pdf\">\u2022 Public Speaker\u00a0 <\/a>Outpost 11<\/strong> catalogue text: Virginia Mackenny<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Violence-Silence-review-arthrob.pdf\"><strong>\u2022 Violence \/ Silence review <\/strong>arthrob\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Archive: Issue No. 60, August 2002<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VS-_art-SA.pdf\">\u2022 Violence \/ Silence<\/a><\/strong> review : Nic Dawes \/ Kathryn Smith, Art South Africa, vol 01 issue 01 p50-51, 2002<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregstreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Disjunctive-Dialogues.pdf\">\u2022 Disjunctive Dialogues<\/a> &#8211; 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