Art Blog For May 2008
26 May 2008
South African artist Angus Taylor was born in 1970 in a hospital in Hillbrow to a journalist father and a mother trained in painting. He grew up in the Vaal Triangle, Gauteng, South Africa.
After school Angus Taylor travelled around South Africa, went to the army and studied fine Arts at the University of Pretoria and graduated with honours in 1997.
In 1994 Angus Taylor won the P.P.C. National Young Sculptor Award.
After tutoring in drawing and Sculpture Angus Taylor started his own business in 1995.
He took part in many group exhibitions as well as a solo exhibition in 1999 "Africana and other baggage".
In 1998 Angus Taylor started a company called D.S.W. (Dionysus Sculpture Works) and have since completed numerous commissions for the Government, Councils, the C.S.I.R. and more recently, global resorts.
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19 May 2008
South African artist Lionel Smit was born in pretoria in 1982. Lionel Smit has been actively exhibiting since 1999, which include sculpture and painting.
Lionel Smit’s studio is situated in Pretoria were he also runs the secret gallery.
Lionel Smit has been very successful in exhibitions in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kempton Park, Potchefstroom as well as internationally, namely in London, Los Angeles and Ireland.
Lionel Smit's works are part of numerous corporate and private collections.
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12 May 2008
South African sculptor Anton Smit was born in the Transvaal town of Boksburg, South Africa, in August 1954. He entered his first sculpting competition at the age of sixteen, and won the first prize. Completely selftaught, Anton Smit was awarded the first prize in the South African Association of Arts' New Signatures Competition in 1979.
Following successful exhibitions in Nelspruit, White River, Cape Town and Pretoria, Anton Smit turned to sculpting full-time to cope with the demand for his work by galleries and private collectors alike.
With works permanently on display at the Pretoria and Pietersburg Art museums and major art galleries across the counrty, and the Anton Smit Sculpture Museum at the Millennium Art Gallery, Groenkloof, Pretoria, the artist is fast becoming one of South Africa's more important sculptors.
During 1990 international recognition came in the form of exhibitions in Rome and Milan, an invitation to exhibit in New York and Hong Kong as well as a return exhibition in Italy in 1993.
More exhibitions have followed in Bonn, Washington, Singapore and Koln.
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5 May 2008
South African artist Marna Schoeman studied BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria and graduated in 1986
Marna Schoeman currently finds great joy in rendering finely detailed miniature paintings in the old Persian style and concentrates on subjects that instill a sense of happiness and harmony in the viewer. She gets her inspiration from the rich diversity of life, as well as humans, plants ant animals and she tries to see beauty and life everywhere around her, even in mundane scenes like riding in the bus or mowing the lawn.
Marna Schoeman uses mainly gouache and acrylic on artists board and her paintings have been taken up in private collections as far affield as the USA and Ireland.
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