Painters done by south african artists biography

1963 Wayne Barker was born in Pretoria, South Africa
1981 Diploma Fine Art, Pretoria Technikon
1984 BA Fine Art, Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town
1998 Postgraduate degree Fine Art, École des Beaux Arts Luminy, Marseille
1998 &1992 Volkskas Atelier Award, Merit award winner
1989-1995 founder of the Famous International Gallery, South Africa
2000 ‘Wayne Barker: Artist’s Monograph’
lives and works in Johannesburg

ART FAIRS  (Selection)
2015
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Pioneer Works, New York &
Somerset House, London
2014
Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London
2013
Art Élysées Paris
London Art 13
Dubai Art Fair
Sydney Art Fair
Johannesburg Art Fair
2012 India Art Fair, New Delhi, represented by Everard Read Gallery
2009-2011 Johannesburg Art Fair, represented by SMAC Gallery
2008  Johannesburg Art Fair, represented by Everard Read Gallery
1998 Köln Art Fair, Frank Hanel Gallery, Frankfurt (D)
1997 Frankfurt Art Fair, Frank Hanel Gallery, Frankfurt (D)

ART BIENNIALS(Selection)
2011 ‘Illuminations’ video intervention, Venice Biennale;
2010 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China;
2009 I Linguaggi del Mondo: Languages of the World, collateral exhibition to the Venice Biennale,
Pallazzo Querini Art House, Venice (I) (with Kay Hassan and Johann Louw);
2007 All Washed Up Africa, French Pavillion, Venice Biennale (I),
(Performance in collaboration with Ian Waldek);
1997 ‘The World is Flat’, installation, Alternating Currents, Trade Routes: History and Geography,
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa 1997, curated by Okwui Enwezor
and Octavio Zaya.;
1995 Africus, Black Looks White Myths, First Johannesburg Biennale curated by Octavio Zaya;
1995 Africus, ‘The Laager’, First Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg.

LECTURER INTERNATIONAL ART SYMPOSIA KulturAXE

2004 Landscapes of Desire, 14th Int. Art Symposium and V4 network

Sue Dickinson was widely considered to be one of the best South African wildlife artists of her generation. The composition of Sue’s paintings was critical. She based them upon the law of proportion known as the “Golden Mean”, which was an aesthetic principle used by the ancient Greeks. This is because Sue’s focus was the animal itself.

Her experience taught her that “what you leave out is just as important as what you put in”. As a result, this lead to a new style of depicting African wildlife, with her stark, clean images concentrating exclusively on the animal, as well as conveying the wide-open spaces of Africa.

Sue’s preferred painting medium was watercolour. This highly under-rated medium is widely acknowledged by artists to be the most difficult. “There is no room for error with watercolour – because once it’s on the paper, it is almost impossible to remove. Consequently, I work carefully and accurately. I’m not attempting to reproduce reality, therefore I want to work fairly loosely too,” she said.

“It is important for the viewer to be able to see the mark of the artist, and also the journey I have taken on the page. Certainly I don’t want a slick look.”

COLBERT MASHILE

(b. 1972, Bushbuckridge, South Africa)

Colbert Mashile is a painter and visual artist who has developed a unique iconographical language within South African art, often dealing with the mystical, mythological and archaic elements of traditional African culture and its legacy in today’s world.

Rich in symbolism, Mashile incorporates neoclassical themes in his work and juxtaposes these with deceptively familiar objects from the artist’s everyday life. These are carefully chosen and charged with meaning, giving equal materiality to both western and African aesthetics. In so doing, Mashile creates contemporary vanitas drawings which give voice to his own story, perspective and place in the world.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
As We Are, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2017
Just My Imagination, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Truth or Dare, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016
Man’s Duality (Unearthed), CIRCA Gallery, Johannesburg

2015
Beast of Burden NIROX Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa
S'Ka Motho (Just Like Man) SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2013
Messages from our Ancestors Art Eye Gallery, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006
Mmawaka Montedi, AVA, Cape Town, South Africa

2004
Tsa Bagale, Gallery On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
Opening Gallery Exhibition, CIRCA Gallery, London, UK
1:54 Art Fair London, presented by CIRCA Gallery, London UK
Cape Town Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery booth, Cape Town, South Africa

2015
FNB Jo-burg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery Booth, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006
Les arts de la Coexistence? Alliance Francaise, Paris, France
Les arts de la Coexistence? Musee des Arts Derniers, Paris, France
Les arts de la Coexistence? Musee des Arts Derniers,Paris, France
New Painting, KZNSA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following is a list of artists from South Africa.

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• Beezy Bailey (born 1962)
• Kenneth Baker (1921–1996)
• Walter Battiss (1906–1982)
• Janko de Beer (born 1980)
• Charles Davidson Bell (1813–1882), Scottish-born painter, artist and stamp designer
• Deborah Bell (born 1957), sculptor, painter and mixed media artist
• Willie Bester (born 1956)
• Harry Bolus (1834–1911), botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist
• D. C. Boonzaier (1865–1950)
• Gregoire Boonzaier (1909–2005)
• Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981)
• Steven Bosch (born 1978)
• Cristina Boshoff (born 1980), singer
• Willem Boshoff (born 1951)
• Wim Botha (born 1974)
• Candice Breitz (born 1972)
• Lisa Brice (born 1968)
• Kevin Brand (born 1953)
• Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 1981)
• Rhona Brown (1922–2014), botanical artist
• Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), painter, especially of Egyptian pharaohs

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• Jeannette Unite (born 1964), Earth artist who paints and draws with minerals and mining detritus from the "Industrial Sublime"

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• Strijdom van der Merwe (born 1961), land artist
• Maurice van Essche (1906–1977), Belgian-born South African painter, oil, gouache, acrylic and water-color; inspired by time in Belgian Congo (1939), inter alia
• Anton van Wouw (1862–1945), Dutch-born South African sculptor
• Nontsikelelo (Lolo) Veleko (born 1977)
• Jan Vermeiren (born 1949), paintings mainly in oil on canvas, etchings and lithography
• Diane Victor (born 1964)
• Karlien de Villiers (born 1975)
• Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk (1853–1936)