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CHRIS DENOVAN ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Rosenblum green Rosenblum green Biography Christopher Denovan was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1983. In 2005 he graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art (majoring in Painting and Printmaking) from the Ruth Prowse School of Art. Chris then went on to study at The Animation School in 2006 and [...]

ALEXIS PRELLER ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Biography Alexis Preller was born on 6 September 1911 in Pretoria. Before pursuing a career in art, he had worked as a clerk. He left for England in 1934 where he studied art at the Westminster School of Art. He returned to South Africa in 1935 before leaving again this time

LARRY SCULLY ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Grey landscape Grey landscape Abstract sunset Abstract sunset Biography Laurence Vincent Scully (known as Larry Scully) was born in Gibraltar on 12 December 1922. His father was Irish and his mother was South African. His most famous painting is the Madonna and Child of Soweto, painted in 1973, which still hangs

HARDY BOTHA ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Reporter v celebration Reporter v celebration Biography "When I drew, the loneliness disappeared. Then I discovered that my drawings entertained people and got me in and out of trouble. I survived school by drawing, until I ran away and finally ended up in art school." Born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State

ESTER MAHLANGU ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Abstract Abstract Biography Esther Nikwambi Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm near Middelburg in Mpumalanga Province. Esther’s mother, like her grandmother and great grandmother before her, was a simple woman who looked after her family and occupied herself with traditional wall painting and beadwork. During winter most of the

DAVID BROWN ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery The Keeper The Keeper Biography David James Brown was born in Johannesburg in 1951, and spent his working life in Cape Town. He studied design and photography at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and was introduced to sculpture in 1975 by Cecil Skotnes. At around this time he found a

CECIL SKOTNES ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Puppeteer Puppeteer Meeting the ancestor Meeting the ancestor Biography Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was a prominent South African artist. He was born in 1926 in East London. He studied drawing in Florence, Italy, the Witwatersrand Technical Art School and then the University of the Witwatersrand. In the mid 1950s Cecil accepted

BEEZY BAILEY ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery The magi The magi Biography Beezy Bailey (born 21 July 1962 in Johannesburg) is a South African artist who works in various media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and ceramics. He has been a full-time artist for 30 years, with over 20 one-man shows in London, Johannesburg and Cape Town as

NORMAN CATHERINE ENQUIRE GalleryBiographyGallery Under my spell Under my spell Biography Norman Catherine, a South African artist, critic of the apartheid regime, educator and promoter of Black artists Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo