October 2009

“Unlike the cool kids of 20 years ago…who were really obnoxious, hard living and in some cases hung out with hookers…the new cool kids live in a peaceful kingdom where imagination, youthful naiveté and impeccable taste reign supreme. They’re not a Brat pack; they’re a play group. Their art is not about sex, money or violence. Its about mood and whimsy; frogs fall out of sky, a Brazilian guitarist in a sailors suit sporadically singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese; unicorns materialize. Their personal lives have a similar gentleness. They’re about warm and eccentric families working with friends; sojourns in Paris, best new bands, 70’s songs that no one ever heard, the perfect shoe.”
This extract from the Vanity Fair Magazine aptly describes many of the wonderful young people who make up Londolozi’s New Generation Management Team. In particular I think of my young friend Simon Max Bannister who I have watched grow up and who is now an emerging contemporary artist with, in my view, a rare talent for provocative deep and meaningful communication through the medium of art created from litter cleaned up off the land.