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Cecilia Maartens talks art inspiration in Space Age exhibition

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Cecilia Maartens is a creative, artist and member of the Free State Art Collective and is currently part of a group exhibition on at the Jan Rupert Museum in Graaff-Reinet which is on until the 21st of May 2023. She talks about the inspiration for her "Swing sculpture" titled "Passage of time" and where the idea for this exhibition originated. You can find her works by visiting free_state_art_collective on Instagram as well as her personal page cecilia_maartens_fine_art
11 Apr 2023 English South Africa Performing Arts · Visual Arts

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