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List Of South African Artists
The following is a list of artists from South Africa. A * Bill Ainslie (1934-1989) * Jane Alexander (1959-) * Siemon Allen (1971-) * Nils Andersen (1897-1972) * Tyrone Appollis (1957-) * Dieter Aschenborn (1915-2002) * Hans Aschenborn (1888-1931) * Uli Aschenborn (1947-) * Leigh Ashton (1956-) B * Beezy Bailey (1962-) * Kenneth Baker (1921-1996) * Walter Battiss (1906-1982) * Janko de Beer (1980-) * Charles Davidson Bell (1813-1882), Scottish-born painter, artist and stamp designer * Deborah Bell (1957-), sculptor, painter and mixed media artist * Willie Bester (1956-) * Harry Bolus (1834-1911), botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist * D. C. Boonzaier (1865-1950) * Gregoire Boonzaier (1909-2005) * Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981-) * Steven Bosch (1978-) * Cristina Boshoff (1980-), singer * Willem Boshoff (1951-) * Wim Botha (1974-) * Candice Breitz (1972-) * Lisa Brice (1968-) * Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981-) * Rhona Brown (1922-2014), botanical artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ainslie
William “Bill” Ainslie (10 April 1934-1989) was a South African artist, teacher, activist, as well as the founder of several art projects. Early life Ainslie was born on 10 April 1934 in Bedford, Eastern Cape, where his family farmed a parcel of land called Spring Grove”. His family moved to the Karoo when he was a young boy, but subsequently left for Johannesburg because of a drought. His father died when he was eight years old. Ainslie had intended to become a priest, until art claimed his imagination when he was a student. He studied at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg from 1952–1955. In 1958, he completed his honours degree in Fine Art. On completion of his studies he taught at Michael house, a school in KwaZulu Natal. He also taught art at Cyrene Mission in Zimbabwe and King Edward VII School in Johannesburg, his alma mater In 1960, Bill married Sophia Jansen-Schottell (known as Fieka). He died in a car accident in August 1989 returning from an internatio ... [...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] |
Bettie Cilliers-Barnard
Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, Decoration for Meritorious Services, DMS (18 November 1914 – 15 September 2010) was a South African abstract art, abstract artist, generally known for her large canvases of birds in flight. She was also the mother of well-known South African actress, Jana Cilliers. She was a recipient of the Decoration for Meritorious Services. Biography Cilliers-Barnard was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal Province, Transvaal on 18 November 1914. She started painting in the late 1930s and over the years kept experimenting with colour, lines, abstraction and figurative abstractions. In the 1970s, birds unexpectedly started appearing in her work – which could be described as part of her earthy Symbolism (arts), symbolism. She referred to this work as her "flights of the spirit". Since 1946, Cilliers-Barnard's works have been shown in seventy solo exhibitions in South Africa as well as in Paris (paintings 1956), London (graphic art 1971), and at the Prestiges Invitatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Catherine
Norman Catherine (born September 1949 in East London, South Africa, East London, South Africa) is a South African people, South African artist whose body of work spans painting, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media. He collaborated closely with iconic South African people, South African artist Walter Battiss on the Fook Island concept from 1973. "''In the thirty years spanning his past and present output, Catherine’s visual trademarks have included rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms, rendered in brash cartoon colours. His idiosyncratic vision – a combination of dark cynicism and exuberant humour, as well as his innovative use of everyday material, has secured his place at the forefront of South African contemporary art''" Hazel Friedman on Norman Catherin He lives and works from his home, named ''Fook Manor'', near the Hartbeespoort, Hartbeespoort Dam outside of Pretoria. External links South African History OnlineOfficial Norman Catherine website South Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Calburn
Sarah Katherine Calburn, usually known as Sarah Calburn, (born 10 May 1964, Johannesburg) is a South African architect."Book of South African Women: Architects" ''Mail and Guardian online'', 3 August 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012. Biography Sarah Calburn was born in Johannesburg where she attended , matriculating in 1981. She studied architecture at the , graduating in 1987, and in 1996 was awarded a master's d ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Brunton
Winifred Mabel Brunton ''née Newberry'' (6 May 1880 – 29 January 1959) was a South African painter, illustrator and Egyptologist. Early years Brunton was born in 1880 in the Orange Free State South Africa. Her father, Charles Newberry, a millionaire who made his money in Kimberly, was the builder of Prynnsberg Estate. Her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of a missionary to Moshoeshoe I and was herself intensely artistic. Winifred was presented at court in 1898 in London when she presumably met Guy Brunton, an Egyptologist who later became her husband. Later years They built the house in Berea, in Johannesburg, in 1906, the same year they were married. She became best known for her portraits of Egyptian pharaohs, published as ''Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt'' (1926) and ''Great Ones of Ancient Egypt'' (1929). She married Egyptologist Guy Brunton on 28 April 1906 and together they studied at University College London, during which time she painted a portrait of Flinde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhona Brown
Rhona Brown (September 23, 1922 - March 14, 2014), was a South African botanical artist and housewife. Brown was educated at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and UNISA graduating with a B.A.(Hons.) in Fine Arts and with a National Art Teachers Certificate. She worked at the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria for two spells - 1944-46 and 1965–69 and taught sporadically for eight years. She completed some 100 plates for the ''Flowering Plants of Africa'' and black-and-white illustrations for ''Bothalia'' and ''Flora of Southern Africa''. She provided about half of all illustrations for Palmer & Pitman's ''Trees of Southern Africa'' and all the illustrations for Eve Palmer Evelyn Mary "Eve" Palmer (20 February 1916 – 1998) was a South African writer and botanist. She was married to the South African journalist and adventure novelist Geoffrey Jenkins. Her best known work is her bestselling 1966 non-fiction book ' ...'s ''Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley-Ann Brandt
Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 2 December 1981) is a South African actress. Brandt has acted in a number of New Zealand television series and first came to international notice with her role as a slave girl Naevia in the series ''Spartacus: Blood and Sand''. From 2016 to 2021, she played the role of Mazikeen on the television series ''Lucifer (TV series), Lucifer.'' Early life Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Brandt is Cape Coloured of Indian people, Indian, Germans, German, Dutch people, Dutch, and Spanish people, Spanish descent. She is a fluent Afrikaans speaker and lists yoga, field hockey, 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 te ... [...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 white artist who works primarily in video and photography.White Cube She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize. Her work is often characterized 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 . Life Breitz was born in |
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, paper, and marble. The artist explains; “My works are a process of distillations...They attempt to reduce all-encompassing ideas and universal factors down to their core idea.” Exploring along the way “intercepting variables” and “patterns” Exhibitions 2014 L ... [...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] |
