charcoal

Human remains, red deer antlers and charcoal are among the finds discovered at the site thanks to advanced radiocarbon analysis.

Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous peoples solved this problem by creating “terra preta” from table scraps and charcoal and tucking it away in the hostile soil.

Charred trees are dead or dying, some with blackened fruit, some with charcoal limbs clawing at the sky.

Ideas, however you want to weigh them, always proliferate in Kentridge’s varied and layered work, which can be a single charcoal sketch, an elaborate video, a complex installation or an eye-popping opera production.

An artist said he was delighted after his charcoal portrait of Tom Cruise featured in official promotion for the actor's latest film.