Bronwyn Lace
Bronwyn Lace (born Gaborone, Botswana, 1980) is a visual artist. Site specificity, responsiveness, and performativity are central to her practice. Lace focuses on the collaborative relationships between art and other fields, including the natural sciences, museum practice, philosophy and literature. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Lace has developed a combination of an introspective, process-led studio practice and a gregarious, collaborative communal practice. On a meta level her life as an artist has sought to better understand complexity, to embrace nuance, and to build interconnectedness. Lace’s fellowship with other fields comes from an understanding that when we meet, react, and respond to one another, we are both ultimately transformed and form part of an intricate net-like fabric of never-ending activity. In 2013, Lace completed and published a film and book My Room at the Center of the Universe, related to collaborative community activist projects she co-initiated with her partner Marcus Neustetter in the Northern Cape, South Africa. In 2016 Lace joined William Kentridge in establishing and animating the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg. Today Lace is a director on the board of the Centre and lives and practises in Vienna, Austria. (Photo credit: Stella Olivier)