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List Of South African Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in South Africa or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Clare Abbott (active since the 1980s), illustrator *Valerie Adler, painter and designer * Chrysoula Argyros (born 1954), painter * Jane Alexander (born 1959), sculptor, installation artist *Julia Anastasopoulos (born 1983), artist, illustrator, designer, actress * Beth Diane Armstrong (born 1985), sculptor B *Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899), amateur scientist, painter, poet *Myfanwy Bekker (active since the 1970s), painter, ceramist, now living in Plettenberg Bay. *Deborah Bell (born 1957), painter, sculptor * Frida Blumenberg (born 1935), sculptor *Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981), multimedia artist *Candice Breitz (born 1972), artist working with video and photography, educator * Sarah Britten (born 1974), writer, lipstick artist *Rhona Brown (1922–2014), botanical artist C * Bettie Cilliers-Barnard (1914–2010), abstract painter * Julia Rosa Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of . South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town respectively. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Condy
Gillian Condy, born 5 December 1952 Nairobi, is a South African botanical artist. She has illustrated more than 200 plates for Flowering Plants of Africa, contributed to various other South African National Botanical Institute publications and eight plates for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. She has illustrated two books by Charles Craib, ''Geophytic Pelargoniums'' (2001) and ''Grass Aloes in the South African Veld'' (2005). She also contributed to the biographic section in the book ''South African Botanical Art: Peeling back the Petals'' (2001). Biography Condy was born in Kenya, the youngest of three daughters of Thomas Roy Condy and Phyllis Mary Poulton, and spent her childhood in Uganda where her love for Africa and its plants developed. She received her training at Middlesex Polytechnic in London as a natural history illustrator and obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art for a project entitled "British Poisonous Plants". Condy returned to Africa by way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Hobbs
Philippa Hobbs is a published South African art historian, an artist and an art collector. She was born in 1955 and matriculated at St Andrew's School in 1972. She studied art at the Johannesburg College of Art before finishing a post-graduate printmaking course at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia). She then furthered her studies through University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Technikon Witwatersrand. Hobbs was a senior professor of history of art at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 1988 to 1993. She has been noted for her contribution to the practice of art (with national and international exhibitions), art education, research and, most recently, community development through art. Hobbs currently works as MTN art collection curator and arts and culture portfolio senior manager. Art Hobbs was invited to contribute to the Images of Human Rights project in 1996, which involved artists making visual representation of each clause of South Africa's Bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Higgs
Cecil Higgs (28 June 1898, Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State - 16 June 1986, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African artist. She was the third child and second girl of the five children of Clement Higgs and his wife Florence. In 1912, Higgs's father died at the age of 50. In 1916, Higgs became a boarder at the Wesleyan Girls' High School (now Kingswood College) in Grahamstown. Her oldest brother, Clement jr., was killed in 1916 in World War I. Higgs briefly enrolled in the Grahamstown School of Art in 1918, however in 1920 she sailed to England and stayed abroad for 13 years. She trained in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art, at Goldsmiths' College and, from 1926, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Higgs was called back to South Africa, however, due to the illness of her mother, who died in 1934. Higgs held her first solo exhibition in the Domestic Science hall of Stellenbosch University in 1935, meeting the painter Wolf Kibel and the sculptor Lippy Lipshitz. In 1938, she hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Guthrie
Louise Guthrie (October 10, 1879 – February 20, 1966) was a South African botanist and botanical artist. Early life and education Isobel Louise Sophie Guthrie was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony in 1879, the daughter of English-born botanist and mathematics professor Francis Guthrie and his wife, Isabella Grisbrook. She attended Rustenburg Girls High School.John P. Rourke"A Passion for Proteas: The Botanical Art of Louise Guthrie"''Veld & Flora'' 87(September 2001): 120-123. Career Louise Guthrie was a botanical assistant at the Bolus Herbarium, beginning in 1918, until 1927. While there, she developed her skill as a botanical illustrator, best known for a series of 264 depictions of protea species found in South Africa, begun in 1925, with the last dated 1947. She donated the set to Bolus Herbarium in 1948. Personal life and legacy The ''guthriae'' plant name honors Louise Guthrie.Urs Eggli and Leonard E. Newton, eds.''Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names''(Spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liza Grobler
Liza Grobler (born 1974) is a South African Mixed Media artist who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Grobler works in a diverse range of media, embracing bright colours and often incorporating traditional craft techniques to create site-specific work. Biography Grobler received her master's degree in Fine Art with distinction from Stellenbosch University in 1999, after which she worked towards developing a signature aesthetic involving bright colours and diverse media. Grobler' work often incorporates traditional craft techniques such as beadwork and she has collaborated with The Quebeka Bead Studio to produce beaded works. She has participated in close to a hundred group shows both in South Africa and abroad - in Italy, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, the United States and Finland. She attended residencies and workshops in the US, Norway, Finland and Switzerland. Her work resides in many notable collections including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophy Gray (architect)
Sophy Gray or Sophia Gray (5 January 1814 – 27 April 1871), was a diocesan administrator, artist, architect, horsewoman and the wife of Cape Town bishop Robert Gray. Born at Easington in Yorkshire, the 5th daughter of county squire Richard Wharton Myddleton of Durham and Yorkshire, she died at Bishopscourt, Cape Town on 27 April 1871 and was buried in the graveyard of St Saviour's in Claremont. wrote "the constant companion of (Robert Gray's) travels, the untiring amanuensis and accountant, the skilful designer of churches, the brightness and stay of his home life at Bishopscourt." England Sophy and her two sisters were raised in an affluent family, owning estates in North Riding and Durham. They were well-read and proficient riders from an early age, qualities that helped foster their friendship with the young Robert Gray. Sophy married Robert Gray in 1836 after a six-month engagement, when he was rector of Whitworth, Durham. Their honeymoon gave young Sophy a taste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allerley Glossop
Allerley Glossop (1870–1955) was a South African artist known particularly for her landscape and pastoral scenes. Biography Glossop was born Alice Glossop into a middle-class family in Twickenham, in West London, the daughter of George Glossop, the vicar of Twickenham,''Who's Who in Natal'', 1933, p. 103 and his wife Eliza. Glossop studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Charles Holroyd and modelling under George Frampton, and studied under William Mouat Loudan at the Westminster School of Art.''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'', 1992, p. 225 She also worked under Arthur Elsley and Solomon Solomon, and taught at their short-lived art school, the Sphinx Studio, until it closed in 1900.''Into The Light, Works by KwaZulu-Natal Women Artists'', Tatham Art Gallery Glossop moved to Cape Colony in 1900, farming and painting first at Klapmuts in the Western Cape, and was an active member of the South African Society of Artists (SASA), serving on the Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambra Gambale
Ambra Gambale is a South African and Italian artist and fine jewelry designer. Her Skullchemy range of ''memento mori'' artworks created from exotic animal skulls, metals & precious stones have been exhibited and sold in London, Notting Hill & Dover Street, Mayfair.Nechama Brodie,Things of beauty: Ambra Gambale’s Skullchemy range" Mail & Guardian, 24 May 2013 Her fine jewellery range is handmade and centred on the use of gold, ebony and diamonds. Her collectors include the likes of pulitzer prize winner Lauren Beukes. Her Silvered Crocodile Skull art piece, is a crocodile skull in platinum and diamonds that was featured in Casa Vogue of Brazil valued at £1,000,000.Natalia Martucci,Quando a natureza invade a casa" Casa Vogue - Brazil, 16 May 2014 While merchandised pieces of the skull along with her jewelry have been sold at Wolf & Badger in Mayfair and Merchants on Long, Cape Town.Matthew Shave,Around the World in 80 Jewellers" Conde Nast Traveller, pg. 21, May 2015 Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Fannin
Marianne or Edda Fannin (2 March 1845 – 18 November 1938) was an Irish botanical artist, known for her work painting the flora of South Africa. She was regarded as one of the principle South African botanical artists of her time. Life Marianne Edwardine Fannin was born in Dublin on 2 March 1845, the daughter of Thomas and Ellen Fannin. When Fannin was a few months old, her family emigrated from Dublin to Cape Colony. Initially they lived on the Cape of Good Hope. They then took up residence on the Dargle, a tributary of the Umgeni River, and it was named after the River Dargle near Dublin by Fannin's father. The local district is now known by the name Dargle. Fannin first married the Reverend Eustace Wilberforce Jacob in 1869. The couple travelled to England in 1871, with Jacob dying soon after their arrival. Fannin remained in England for a period, studying music and painting. She returned to South Africa in 1875. From 1878, she lived in Transvaal, marrying the Reverend Alfre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith47
Faith47 / Faith XLVII (born Cape Town, 1979) is a South African interdisciplinary artist who has held solo exhibitions in Miami (2018), New York City (2015),"Faith47's New Exhibition "Aqua Regalia – Chapter Two"" ''Juxtapoz Magazine''. London (2014)"Previews: Faith47 – “Aqua Regalia” @ Moniker Projects" ''ArrestedMotion''. and (2012). As both a notable South African an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands. Life and work Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had a vineyard. Dumas witnessed the system of Apartheid during her childhood. Dumas began painting in 1973 and showed her political concerns and reflections on her identity as a white woman of Afrikaans descent in South Africa. She studied art at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975, and then at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem, which is now located in Amsterdam. She studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1979 and 1980. She currently lives and works in the Netherlands and is one of the country's most prolific artists. Dumas has also featured in some films, '' Miss Interpreted'' (1997), Alice Neel (2007), Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (2009), '' The Future is Now!'' (2011), and ''Screwed'' (2017). Several books included il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
