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South African Painters
The following is a list of artists from South Africa. A * Larry Abramson (born 1954), South African-born Israeli artist * Igshaan Adams (born 1982), textile artist * Valerie Adler, painter and designer * Bill Ainslie (1934–1989) * Jane Alexander (born 1959) * Siemon Allen (born 1971) * Nils Andersen (1897–1972) * Tyrone Appollis (born 1957) * Dieter Aschenborn (1915–2002), Namibian-born * Hans Aschenborn (1888–1931), German-born * Uli Aschenborn (born 1947) * Leigh Ashton (born 1956) B * Beezy Bailey (born 1962) * Kenneth Baker (1921–1996) * Beverly Barkat (born 1966), South-African born Israeli visual artist * 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) * Doris Bloom (born 1954), painter; incorporates performance art into her work * Harry Bolus (1834–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Abramson
Larry Abramson (; born 1954) is a South African-born Israeli artist. Biography Larry Abramson was born in 1954 in South Africa. In 1961, his family aliyah, immigrated to Israel and lived in Jerusalem. He attended high school in the Hebrew University Secondary School. In 1970, as a high school senior, he was one of the signators of a conscientious objectors to Israeli rejection of Egyptian President Nasser's peace initiative. In 1973 Abramson studied a Foundation Course at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Upon his return to Israel he took a position as printer and curator of exhibitions at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, where he worked for nine years, until 1986. Art career Abramson's first solo exhibition was in 1975. His work during the 1980s dealt with a variety of iconic symbols from modernist European art, particularly the "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich, which he used to create dynamic situations combining abstraction and a figurative art idiom. During 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Davidson Bell
Charles Davidson Bell FRSE (22 October 1813 – 7 April 1882) was a Scottish-born artist who spent the majority of his life in the Cape Colony. In addition to serving as the Surveyor-General of the colony, he was also a heraldist who designed several of the Cape Colony's medals and stamps. Life Born on 22 October 1813 at Newhall, Crail, Fife, Scotland, he was educated locally at St Andrews University. Bell left Scotland and sailed to South Africa, landing at the Cape of Good Hope in 1830 and through his uncle Sir John Bell, Secretary to the Cape Government, was given a post in the civil service. He was appointed as expedition artist on Dr. Andrew Smith's two-year journey north as far as the Limpopo in 1834. He went from Acting Clerk of the Legislative Council in 1838, to Assistant Surveyor-General in 1843, to Surveyor-General in 1848. In 1851, he designed a silver gallantry medal for Cape governor Sir Harry Smith to present to troops during the 8th Frontier War. This is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley-Ann Brandt
Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 2 December 1981) is a South African-born American actress best known for the role of Mazikeen on the television series ''Lucifer'' (2016–2021). Early life Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Brandt is Cape Coloured of African Khoisan, Indian, German, Dutch, San, Spanish and Portuguese descent. She is a fluent Afrikaans speaker and lists yoga, hockey, and baseball among her interests. In South Africa, she played competitive field hockey. In 1999, Brandt immigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, with her parents and her younger brother Brian Brandt. Brandt started work in retail sales in Auckland before securing work as an information technology recruitment consultant. Following some modelling work, she was cast in a number of New Zealand television advertisements. She studied acting and was trained in the Meisner technique in 2008. Career Brandt's first significant acting role was in the New Zealand television series ''Diplomatic Immunity''. Brandt has appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Brice
Lisa Brice (born 1968) is a South African painter and visual artist from Cape Town. She lives in London and cites some of her influences as her experiences growing up in South Africa during a time of political upheaval, and from time spent living and working in Trinidad. Biography Brice was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa and studied at Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, graduating in 1990. From 1988—1991 Brice worked as printmaking assistant to artist Sue Williamson. She came to London in 1998 to take up a residency at Gasworks Gallery and later settled in the capital. Her paintings are inspired by her early life in South Africa as well as her life in London and time spent in Trinidad over the past 20 years. Brice started out working with printing, photography, video and other mixed media. After moving to the UK, she began to work predominantly in oils and canvas or paper and is now better known as a painter. Also in the late 1990s Brice began spending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz (born 1972) is a South African artist who works primarily in video and photography.White Cube . She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize. Her work is often characterised by multi-channel moving image installations, with a focus on the "attention economy" of contemporary media and culture, often represented in the parallelism of the identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures and widespread indifference to global issues. In 2017, she was selected to represent South Africa at the |
Wim Botha
Wim Botha (born 1974) is a South African contemporary artist. Biography Botha was born in Pretoria in 1974 and currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He grew up in a suburban town on the eastern side of Pretoria. In 1996, Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria with a Bachelors in Visual Art. He has received the Helgaard Steyn Prize for sculpture in 2013, Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2005, and the Tollman Award 2003. Works Botha has found inspiration for his work in government texts and religious icons, objects that show belief, faith, observation, transgression and forgiveness. Among the mediums he uses are treated wood, books, acrylic enamel paint, oil paint, steel, Indian ink, bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ..., paper, and marble. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Boshoff
Willem Boshoff (born 1951, Johannesburg, South Africa) is one of South Africa's foremost contemporary artists and regularly exhibits nationally and internationally. Boshoff spent his childhood in Vanderbijlpark, which is a town located next to the Vaal River, located approximately seventy five kilometers south of Johannesburg. His father, Martiens, was a carpenter which allowed him to develop a love for working with wood. This had a large influence on his current technical expertise. Boshoff is known primarily for his conceptual installations. The way he communicates his ideas and has a social responsibility is what makes Boshoff a conceptual artist.Staden-Garbett, Miranthe. 2009. "The worldcentric art of Willem Boshoff: an analysis of artefact and discipline in Children of the Stars." South African Journal of Art History 24, no. 2: 114-127. According to a book that was written by Ivan Vladislavić, he states that Willem Boshoff is "an artist who had been creating unusual art s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Boshoff
Katarina Boshoff (born 8 October 1980 as Katarina Cristina Boshoff) is a South African folk pop singer and pianist based in Cape Town. Boshoff was born in Stellenbosch, and holds dual citizenship in South Africa and Spain. She began playing piano at the age of 12, and received her first recording contract at the age of 18. Katarina is partly South African, partly Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i .... Music Boshoff released her debut single, "I'm only human" in 1999. The single topped the South African National Campus Charts. It spent 9 weeks on the South African National Top 40 Charts, where it peaked at the number six position. In 2000 she followed the single with her debut album, ''This is me''."Katarina Boshoff," ''Who's Who Southern Africa''. Found a''Who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Bosch
Steven Bosch (born 6 June 1978) is a South African artist (working primarily in the medium of photography, video and ceramics) and creative consultant in Johannesburg. He was also a trend analyst and presenter on the Afrikaans TV program Sieners on ViaTV, a South African lifestyle channel. Biography Steven Bosch was born in Johannesburg and grew up in Florida on the West Rand. Bosch completed a B. Business Communication degree at the Potchefstroom University in 2001 and a Masters in Development Communication at the NWU in 2009. From 2004 to 2014 he lectured communications at the NWU in Potchefstroom. He is currently living in Johannesburg. As an artist, Bosch has participated in several national group exhibitions since 2007. He has artworks in national public art collections, such as the NWU Art Collection as well as private collections locally and abroad. He received an institutional award for creative excellence from the NWU in 2010 for his Solo exhibition, Stasis Bosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is a South African multimedia artist. Using experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and dense sculptural installations, her artwork "engages with powerful socio-political notions of memory, narration and representation." Among other venues, Bopape's work has been shown at the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the 12th Biennale de Lyon. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam; Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts, Durban; and Palais de Tokyo. Her work in the collection of the Tate. Early life and education Bopape was born in Polokwane, South Africa, in 1981. She studied painting and sculpture at the Durban Institute of Technology, and graduated from De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2007. In 2010 she completed an MFA at Columbia University in New York. Notable Installations and Exhibitions In 2011, Bopape had a solo exhibition, ''the eclipse will not be visible to the naked e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregoire Boonzaier
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier (31 July 1909 – 22 April 2005) was a South African artist well known for his landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. He was a famous exponent of Cape Impressionism, a founder of the New Group, and a contributor, through his art works, to the struggle against apartheid. __TOC__ Biography Gregoire Boonzaier was the fifth child of political cartoonist Daniël Cornelis Boonzaier and his cousin Maria Elizabeth Boonzaier. Early on Gregoire made the acquaintance of the artists Pieter Wenning, Nita Spilhaus, Moses Kottler and Anton van Wouw, all of whom were close family friends. It was Moses Kottler who first gave Gregoire a box of paints in 1922 and Nita Spilhaus an easel in 1926, igniting a creative flame that was to burn for more than eighty years. Gregoire's father was dead set against a formal training in art and felt that he had more to learn from the artists around him. In 1923 his first two oil paintings were shown at Ashbey's Gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Bolus
Harry Bolus (28 April 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the Bolus Herbarium and bequeathing his library and a large part of his fortune to the South African College (now the University of Cape Town). Active in scientific circles, he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, member and president of the South African Philosophical Society (later the Royal Society of South Africa), the SA Medal and Grant by the SA Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of the Cape of Good Hope. Biography Bolus was born in Nottingham, England. He was educated at Castle Gate School, Nottingham. The headmaster George Herbert regularly corresponded with and received plant specimens from William Kensit of Grahamstown, South Africa. Kensit requested that the headmaster send him one of his pupils as an assistant; Harry Bolus d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
