Maverick Life: Art: The Fynbos After The Fire By Fran Beighton
Lorraine Loots rose to international fame after completing a “Business Acumen for Artists” course at the UCT Graduate School of Business. Every participant of the course had to pitch an idea to a panel upon completion. Loots, who had struggled with the idea of being an artist or, more specifically, had struggled with the idea of selling her art, did the pitch but had no intention of following through.
“I was 11 when my brother Wouter was diagnosed, wrongly diagnosed, at first with lymphoma and then leukaemia. He was sick for just over a year and he passed away when I was 13 and he was 15. Seven years later when I was 21, my younger brother Frank, again 15, was killed by a drunk driver. When I got to the hospital he was being kept alive by machines. They tested to see if he was brain dead. He was. The organ donation people were there and that was that… It was the 1st of January.
“It’s more than business, which is still what makes it hard to this day. It’s really hard to come by. And bills are really easy so it just doesn’t match up.”“It started with dates becoming this very live, resonant important thing and this pressure of celebrating every day and being grateful for the fact that I’m here when they’re not.
“I wish I knew how many but I lost count.” It came to a point where she had to turn down work, including from singer Alanis Morissette.
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