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The Trinity Session is moving on! And to celebrate 7 years of The Premises Gallery at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, The Trinity Session and the Johannesburg Civic Theatre are inviting you to the launch of The Premises Book.

Saturday 13 December @ 4pm, The Premises Gallery

Welcoming: Bernard Jay, CEO of the Johannesburg Civic Theatre.

Welcoming drinks & cash bar available

Book price: R100.00

The Trinity Session

With limited access to established contemporary art spaces, the early beginnings of The Trinity Session saw Jose Ferreira, Kathryn Smith, Marcus Neustetter and Stephen Hobbs imagining numerous possibilities for a way forward as artist-collaborators

in the Johannesburg visual art context.

They adopted a multi-disciplinary and entrepreneurial approach to artistic survival, which brought them into contact with a wide range of brands, marketers and businesspeople. The Trinity Session’s aim was to create a base in Johannesburg Central, and this was speedily aided by their meeting Bernard Jay. Not only did the subsequent lease agreement in 2004 influence directly the forming of their company, The Gallery Premises cc, but it also allowed them to foreground, as reflected in the gallery’s name, their love for combining art and administration.

Art galleries that create conditions for experimentation and the emergence of new talent generally only start to gain an audience and reputation after several years of consistent and qualitative programming. The Premises Gallery, while subject to such pressure, was born out of an interesting new force that would soon influence an entirely new trend in artistic production in Johannesburg namely urban regeneration. It was precisely from this perspective that the gallery extended its programming-logic into the public domain.

Exhibitions, projects and events at The Gallery Premises at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre were managed and curated by The Trinity Session from 2004 until 2008. The shift away from the gallery space to focus more exclusively on public space hails an important new phase in their collaborative artistic explorations. Although by no means newcomers to the environment of public space, The Trinity Session sees the move away from the traditional gallery environment as a move towards refining prior practice insofar as it would allow them to more effectively engage with the “republication” of the multi-layered fabric of life that exists in the public sphere of Johannesburg.