2012-2014
Masters in Fine Art (MFA) (distinction), Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
2011-2016
Workshops in Materiality, re-introducing formal gesso, rabbit glue and paint preparation processes into painting department, co-ordinating specialists, artists materials workshops in pastels and paint, Michaelis School Fine Art, UCT.
Assisting PHD student with a 'Drawing From the Ground' pastel making workshop.
1997-1998
EMEP - teacher art training in Nyanga
1987-1997
Frank Joubert Art Centre, taught printmaking and general art.
Taught adult education drawing classes: If You Can See You Can Draw
Taught Painting classes: Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
1992-1996
University of South Africa
1987
Facilitated workshops; Gallery 709; Adderley Street & Franschhoek
1982-1986
Michaelis School of Fine Art, University Cape Town

2016
Mzansi Golden Economy Grant, SA Department of Arts & Culture for TERRA in Dortmund, Germany and Exeter University, UK
2013
MacIver Scholarship, University of Cape Town
Academic Grant, University of Cape Town
Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) grant, University of Cape Town
2012
Jules Kramer Travel Grant, University of Cape Town
Academic Grant : University of Cape Town ARC - The Visual University and its Columbarium ARC
2011
Fellowship Artist Residency, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town
AEGIS African Travel Grant to University Autonoma, Madrid Spain
2009
Artist-in-Residency, RaMoma Art Museum, Nairobi, Kenya
Art Moves Africa (AMA) Research Grant for Travel in Africa
Tashkent Biennale merit award for original use of natural materials
2006
Awarded Glass Wall Installation / Public Art Competition, CSIR Department Science and Technology, Pretoria
2003
Bag Factory, Fordsburg Artists’ Studios (Triangle Network) Johannesburg
Constitutional Hill (Glass & Steel Water History Sculpture) Finalist
2000
Thupela Workshop, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Annex
1999
Thupela Workshop, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Annex
1981
Kellogg’s Young Artists’ Award First Prize, National Art Competition Prize: 4 Year all-inclusive international art scholarship

Anglo American HQ Kumba, Johannesburg
Bell Dewars Incorporated
Clifford Chance, Brussels, Belgium
Chevron HQ, Century City
Department of Science and Technology, CSIR Building, Pretoria
Development Bank of South Africa, Johannesburg DEVS, Cape Town
Fairbridges, Cape Town
Goldstone Resources, Cape Town
Iso-leisure, Johannesburg
Isqithi HQ, Johannesburg
Liberty Holdings, Cape Town & Umhlanga, Kwazulu
Louis Karol Architects, Johannesburg
MTN, Johannesburg
Old Mutual Place, London
Pezula, Knysna
Swiss:Re, Johannesburg
Tronox HQ, Sandton
Tullow Oil, Convention Towers
Chemical Engineering Building, University of Cape Town
Vodacom, Cape Town
William Humphreys Art Museum, Kimberley

TERRA
A peer-reviewed monograph with art reproductions and photographs of the artists journeys and research into the African Industrial Landscape over two decades.
Editors: Andrew Lamprecht & Ivor Powell
Contributing Authors: Dr Ashraf Jamal, Kim Gurney, Professor Marian Tredoux, Kathryn Smith
Distribution Information: Pages: 192 full-colour
Photographs: ca. 750 art reproductions; photographs
Softcover Edition: ISBN: 978-1-920022-01-3 R350
Hardcopy Edition: ISBN: 978-1-920022-02-0 POA
Collector Edition: ISBN: 978-1-920022-03-7 POA 26 art books Format: 265mm x 240mm
Binding: Stitched
Available from terra@artunite.com
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EARTHSCARS CATALOGUE


SENTENCES CATALOGUE

PUBLISHED ESSAYS

2010
'Headgear: Mining Engineering Drawings'
Critical Interventions, 6: 91-101, Spring 2010

2010
'TERRA: Sands and Detritus Soiled with History'
Art South Africa, 9(1): 98-9, Spring 2010

2010
'Exploring the Visual Residues of Colonial Exploitation'
Nukta Art: Contemporary Art Magazine of Pakistan. 5 (1): 80-85

GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

The Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape

The Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape, a group exhibition curated by Professor Michael Godby shown at the Iziko Michaelis Collection, Old Town House, until 11 September 2010. Read more...

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2016
35th International Geology Congress, Invited Earth mining artist, CTICC
TERRA Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Mining Our Heritage | Bergbau Unser Erbe – Germany Preview, Abalone Hermanus Fynarts
In Plain Sight: Social Life in South Africa and Romania before and after 1989, Aparte Gallery of George Enescu Uni of Arts, Iasi & Borderline Art Space, Iasi, Romania
Out of the Fire, Into the Light Dr Ingram Anderson, Glass exhibition, AVA, Pretoria
STRATA two-woman show with Isabel Mertz at ISart, Franscchhoek
Charting curated by Andrew Lamprecht, Eclectica Contemporary, Burg Street Cape Town
Woordfees curated by Alex Hamilton Stellenbosch
Colori sotto il Visuvio (The Colours of Vesuvius), Il ramo d'oro Centre of Arts and Culture, Naples, Italy
2015
Bi-Centenary William 'Strata' Smith, Innovation Centre, University of Exeter
PREVIEW Bi-Centenary William 'Strata' Smith, Jo'burg Art Fair Fringe curated by Carol Brown, Mboneng, Johannesburg
LAW & ORE, Youngblood Foundation Gallery, Cape Town
Between Democracies curated By Judy Peter, Karen von Vey & Richard Gregor, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
Fear & Loss in the Industrial Karoo, Curator Katie Du Toit, Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein | Pretoria Art Museum | Graaff-Rennet
Blowing in the Wind, curator Carol Brown, KZNSA Gallery, Durban and University of the Orange Free State, Art Museum.
Between Conceptual and Spiritual, curated by Ortrud Mulder, Abalone Gallery, part of FynArts Festival, Hermanus
Celebrate 2015, Oude Libertas Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
2014
LAW & ORE, Abalone Gallery, Hermanus
EXTRACT, Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town and Cologne, Germany
COMPLICIT GEOGRAPHIES, Fine Arts Master's Degree exhibition, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town (MFA with Distinction)
2013
HERE / THERE, UCT and WITS Masters students, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town
HAWK Guerrilla Video Projections on land and group Art Intervention, (curator Lien Botha) Overstrand, Western Cape
2012
Residuum: Mines & Machines Installation at the Western Cape Archives & Records Service, Old Gaol, Roeland Street, Cape Town
Exhibition & Presentation: 9th IMHC International Mining History Conference, Johannesburg
HAWK Group Art Intervention, (curated by Lien Botha) Overberg, Western Cape (project printed map)
Return to the Archive, Museum Africa, Johannesburg
2011
Paradox of Plenty, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town Installation of mining archive & artist-in-residency
Mining the African Industrial Landscape: Presentation; Conflicts & Natural Resources: African Studies Conference, AEGIS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Artists Visual Response to the Industrial Landscape: Presentation The Paradox of Plenty, Joburg Art Fair, September
On the Surface: The Heritage of Mines and Mining; conference University Innsbruck, Austria
Iizkhwepha Zhetu / Shaping our Minds, (curated by Phumzile Dlamini) Durban Art Gallery (catalogue)
3 Parts: More Harmony, South African, United Arab Emirates & Mozambique artists (curated by Phumzile Dlamini), Durban Art Gallery (catalogue)
Alumni Exhibition & Auction, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (catalogue)
2010
6 Meters Under, 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, China
The Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape,(curated by Michael Godby), Michaelis Collection, Old Town House Museum (catalogue)
Fragile Earth Glass, Project Room, Grande Provence Gallery, Franschhoek
TERRA: Above Below, Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein (Catalogue)
Salon de Confuses,(curated by Andrew Lamprecht) Rose Korber Art Salon Mining the Artists Pallette in the African Industrial Landscape: Presentation at the Colour Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Mineral Resources and Residues of Power in the African Industrial Landscape, Presentation at ICACD (3rd International Conference on African Cultural Development) Cultural Imperatives for Development: 50 Years Post Independent Africa, Kumasi, Ghana
2009
Headgears, 9th Tashkent Biennale, Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Presentation ‘The Colonial Gaze’ Scientific conference, Urban Philosophy: Anthropological Landscape’, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Earthscars: Mining the African Landscape: Presentation AngloGold Ashanti, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg
Headgear, Inaugural solo exhibition, AngloGold HQ, Turbine Hall, JHB
Earthscars: Mining African Landscape, XLIIIrd AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Congress, The Relations Between Art and Science: Complicity, Criticality, Knowledge, Dublin Castle, Ireland
On Top of the World, (curated by Andre Vorster) (catalogue)
Earthscars, 20:20 Presentation at VANSA, Spin Street, Cape Town
2008
Remembering the Future, Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Old Gaol, Roeland Street, Cape Town
Re-structuring the Colonial, Group Exhibition, Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg
Natural Form, Group Exhibition Artists Working in Glass, The Edge Glass Gallery, Cape Town
2007
Hot Earth, Artworks in response to travels to copper mines of Namaqualand. Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg
Visions of Africa, (curated by Dirk Oegema) Pretoria Art Museum
Earthscars, Anne Bryant Art Museum, East London
2006
HERM: Boundaries Between the Wild and Cultivated, collaboration Cumbria Institute of Arts, Ann Bryant Art Museum, East London
2005
Gunfree South Africa, Constitution Hill Auction, Johannesburg
2004
Earthscars: A Visual Mining Exploration, William Humphreys Art Museum, Kimberley
Earthscars: A Visual Mining Exploration, Mozambique National Gallery, Maputo, Mozambique
Earthscars: A Visual Mining Exploration, Irma Stern Museum Gallery, University of Cape Town
Surfacing, with Lynne Lomofsky, Unite Studio, Cape Town
2003
S.U.M., Bag Factory Residency Exhibition, Fordsburg Art Studios, Johannesburg (catalogue)
Sentences & Gestures, Zebra II, Hampstead, London
South African Artists, Old Mutual Place, London
2001
Sentences, Bell-Roberts Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town (catalogue)
Heart For Art, Red Cross Fundraiser, The Foundry, Cape Town
SA Today, Signature Artist,(curator Patrick Lagus), Fair Centre, Helsinki
Blue Danube, animated projection, edited by Koeka Stander, concert with Sibelius Orchestra, Helsinki, Finland
2000
Sentences, art animation film, 8 minutes, edited by Koeka Stander
Artichoke, Multimedia event, Sandton Civic Centre, Johannesburg
1999
Thresholds, Irma Stern Museum Gallery, University of Cape Town
Paper Prayers, Hardground Printmakers, National Travelling Show
Inaugural Group Exhibition, National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Softserve, Public Eye Event, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Thupela Workshop, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1995
Recent Works, Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town
Abstracts, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
1994
Print Triennial, Musee d’Art Contemporain Internationale, Lyon, France
1993
South Africa in Black and White, Print exhibition (curated by Ray Maylen), South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Aids Awareness, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Brides, (curated by Christopher Peter), Irma Stern Museum Gallery, University of Cape Town
Recent Works, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
1992
Art Now, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
1990
Critics’ Choice, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Sensuous Images, Wandel Street Gallery, Cape Town
1981
Young Artists’ Exhibition, 1st Prize, Kellogg’s Foundation (catalogue)