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Taking the work of the Afrikaner nationalist landscape artist, J.H Pierneef (1886–1957), Barker began to disseminate what remains to this day a highly contested issue in South Africa – land, colonialism and ownership. "As I understand it, Pierneef was a propagandist for the white view of South Africa" – Wayne Barker 1990 [5]
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mhlaba "Dumile" Feni (May 21, 1942 – 1991) was a South African contemporary visual artist known for both his drawings and paintings that included sculptural elements, as well as for his sculptures, which often depicted the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. [1]
Igshaan Adams was born in 1982, in Cape Town, South Africa. [ citation needed ] He grew up in the township of Bonteheuwel , located on the Cape Flats only southeast of Cape Town. Bonteheuwel was a segregated site and created in apartheid-South Africa era of racial segregation for residents of multiracial communities. [ 4 ]
Tracey Rose was born in 1974 in Durban, South Africa. [1] She attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she obtained her B.A. degree in Fine Arts in 1996.
Sue Williamson, South African Art Now, HarperCollins, 2009. Sue Williamson, Resistance Art in South Africa, Juta and Company Ltd, 2010. Berman, Esmé (2010). Art and Artists of South Africa. Cape Town: G3 Publishers. pp. 376–379. ISBN 978-1-86812-345-2. Three Centuries of South African Art: Fine Art, Architecture, Applied Arts, Hans Fransen ...
Judith Mason (1938–2016), painter, mixed media artist, textile designer; Jacki McInnes (born 1966), painter; Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982), sculptor, video artist; Sethembile Msezane (born 1991), visual artist, public speaker and performer; Zanele Muholi (born 1972), photographer, video artist, installation artist
Candice Breitz (born 1972) [1] is a South African white Jewish artist who works primarily in video and photography. [2] [3] She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize. [4]Her work is often characterized by multi-channel moving image installations, with a focus on the "attention economy" of contemporary media and culture, [5] often represented in the parallelism of the identification with ...
Willem Boshoff (born 1951, Johannesburg, South Africa) is one of South Africa's foremost contemporary artists and regularly exhibits nationally and internationally. [1] Boshoff spent his childhood in Vanderbijlpark, which is a town located next to the Vaal River, located approximately seventy five kilometers south of Johannesburg.