Artist Resume
Kyle Jardine
Side Street Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town
Affiliate Artist AITY Gallery
Kyle Jardine ( BA live performance & licentiate musical theatre ) has a discernibly quirky and playful style, exploring a world that encompasses joyful, innocent & queer themes.
Drawing from his experience in stage performance, drag culture and his queer identity, Jardine constructs a beautifully wild, weird and fantastical safe space to immerse oneself in.
His interior scenes stem from his background in story telling where characters, scenes & motifs come to life. His works are confessions of mysterious encounters . The decor, detail & furnishings allude to the peculiar lives of people we want to know.
His use of colour throughout his work, along with characters, print & patterns flow from brush to canvas with ease, highlighting his influence from the world of fashion, costume design & all things theatrical. Inspired to seek out the joyous moments in life, there is an ease in soaking up his creations.
Resume
2024 – AITY Gallery group exhibition
2024 – London , Battersea art fair – AITY Gallery
2024 – Munich Group exhibition , Soul of Afrika
2024 – Solo Exhibition, We’r all just big kids, AITY Gallery Franschhoek
2023 – summer group show, Brutal gallery, side street studios
2023 – new group show – you & I new gallery opening
2023 – uncontextualized group exhibition – Marvol gallery stellenbosch
2023 – Tonal Tapestries – Art in the yard gallery , franschhoek
2023 – The still life of others – Marvol gallery, Hazendal estate.
2023 – solo Exhibition – Please be seated – You & I gallery
2023 – German gallery – group exhibition
2023 – Africa – China international online exhibition
2023 – Work purcahesd by the Royal Portfolio
2022 – Solo exhibition – titled : Mischief. You & gallery kloof
2022 – Lisa Linnow – Winter group show exhibition
2022 – Ruste en Vrede annual group exhibition
2022 – ABSA gallery group exhibition – Johannesburg
2022 – KKNK – Klein Karoo National Arts Festival group exhibition
2022 – Online solo exhibition with Rochester Museum of fine arts in USA.
2022 – Signed with German gallery Munich – Soul of Afrika.
2022 – Exhibition and launch – First Thursdays cape town.
2021 – CTICC Exhibition – You & I gallery
2021 – You & I gallery – Clarendon Hotel Exhibition
2021 – Hermanus Fine arts Festival, Group exhibition.
2021 – Lisa Linow Gallery Group exhibition.
2021 – Robin Sprong wallpaper collection launch.
2021 – Private solo launch – Throne rooms collection.
2021 – Group Exhibition – Vigil – Young Blood Gallery Cape Town.
2020 – Dreamscape series – Art is art gallery cape town.
2020 – Crowded in colour collection – Art is art gallery Cape Town.
2020 – Heritage City Collection – Art is art gallery Cape Town.
2020 – Sanlam Africa & Cape town product & illustration design/illustration.
2020 – Merchandise design range for Gate69 theatre.
2019 – National Finalist, Top 25, State of the art gallery artist search.
Media & Press Features
2024 – Home magazine SA feature
2023 – private body of work collected for a five star hotel
2023 – VISI Magazine artist feature / interview
2023 – Online artist feature /interview – spar magazine
2022 – SA home owner feature – print edition
2022 – House and garden – Artist feature online edition
2022 – Ideas magazine artist feature on mural project
2022 – Online solo exhibition, Rochester fine arts museum USA.
2022 – Ideas Magazine – feature artist and artwork – print edition
2021 – Pro landscape Magazine cover illustration
2021 – Go somewhere slowly – Cape Town documentary interview
2021 – Eat Play Drink Cape Town art review – Young blood gallery exhibition
2021 – House & garden print magazine feature
2020 -VISI magazine online feature article
2020 – News 24 feature article / Interview.
2020 – Netwerk 24 feature article / interview
2020- Cape Town Magazine Online feature article
2019 -VISI Magazine online feature article
Education
Musical Theatre Licentiate 2013
BA – live performance and film degree – AFDA 2009