People Places Textured Spaces01 Aug 2019 - 01 Aug 2019
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Configuration31 Jul 2019 - 31 Jul 2019
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7Up Exhibition16 May 2019 - 13 Jun 2019
Over 25 years ago we were all teaching at the Art School, Port Elizabeth with Hunter Nesbit at the helm! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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The Creative Block 201807 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019
The Creative Block, administered by Spier Arts Trust invites professional artists to participate in this artist career development opportunity. Regular hand-in days take place (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth) at specified locations. At this time, artists receive blank blocks to transform in the media of their choice for presentation and critique at the next hand-in day. When work is accepted by the curator, artists are paid immediately according to the number and size of blocks. The size and associated price of Creative Block artworks are set, regardless of artist tenure or medium. Each Creative Block carries a short artist biography on the back. This allows the artists to enjoy significant exposure as these artworks are displayed around the globe, travel to art fairs and are in the collections of private owners, patrons and corporate offices. We invite you to see how a collection of Creative Blocks displayed together becomes a newly created, single “work” that honestly and sometimes brutally expresses contemporary South African society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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THEMBALETHU MANQUNYANA07 Nov 2018 - 30 Nov 2018
Inspired by Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the exaggeration of African expressionism, Thembalethu’s work is a breath of fresh air pregnant with positive energies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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MOMENTS IN TIME29 Sep 2018 - 27 Oct 2018
Presented by the Port Elizabeth Camera Club and the Photographic Society of South Africa MOMENTS IN TIME is a selection of photographs created to express the artist's perceptions and emotions and includes more than 240 images by 127 photographers from 14 different countries. The exhibition was opened by Diane Skinner, an award-winning photographer from Canada who was a guest speaker at the PSSA Congress held in Port Elizabeth from the 30th of September to the 5th of October. Forming part of the exhibition were images from the International Federation of Photographic Art, FIAP, the only photographic association recognized by UNESCO. They hold a Black and White Biennial competition open to all member countries every second year – This year South Africa hosted the competition. Each country submitted 10 black and white prints by 10 different photographers with Scotland taking the Trophy for the most successful entry. The Photographic Society of South Africa (PSSA) awards Honours to those of its members who achieve excellence in photography. This exhibition also included work by members of the Port Elizabeth Camera Club who achieved PSSA Honours this year. The plight of the Rhino is a major concern and photographers generously donated images to form part of the Rhino Exhibition which was available for sale, the proceeds going to the Wilderness Foundation. ![]() |
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FORGET - ME - NOT22 Sep 2018 - 13 Oct 2018
FORGET - ME - NOTAn exhibition of Fine Art responding to Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease GFI ART GALLERY in collaboration with the EASTERN CAPE REGION of ALZHEIMER'S SOUTH AFRICA NPC invited artists to submit works responding to Dementia & Alzheimer's disease. The Exhibition was opened by Psychiatrist, Dr Reino Verster and Clinical Psychologist, Mark Eaton. ![]() ![]() |
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Marc Pradervand04 Sep 2018 - 24 Sep 2018
Marc Pradervand was born in East London and grew up in the Eastern Cape. He has lived in various parts of South Africa and briefly in the UK. Presently he lives and works in the rural hamlet of Riebeeck East. A painter and photographer, Pradervand , who holds a Higher Diploma in Education and a National Diploma in Photography from the NMMU, has to date had 8 solo exhibitions. Most of his work deals with social issues such as violence, power and the abuse thereof and societies obsessive “wealth at any cost” mentality. He has been an ABSA L’Atelier finalist three times, Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town, 2007 Portrait Finalist and has been a finalist in the NMM Art Museums 2008 and 2014 Biennials. Some of his work forms part of the NMM Art Museum’s permanent collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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THE RED FOREST10 Aug 2018 - 31 Aug 2018
Artists, Lushan Turner, Nonnie Roodt and Riaan Opperman share their experience of the Red Forest and invite you to share the journey and explore the theme of loss, dispossession, memory and absence. “Everything leaves a mark. Every blow echoes in the forest inside. Every injustice cuts a branch...and every loss is a fallen tree. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on” – Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth. Anselm Kiefer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Solly Smook - OJO27 Jun 2018 - 21 Jul 2018
Solly Smook unveils with his solo show “OJO”, a process of creation that is exposed with raw, earthy canvas and acrylics, building towards his emotional images with oils and palette knife. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Sanlam Portrait Award Top 4009 May 2018 - 29 Jun 2018
Sanlam celebrates top South African artists with a biennial competition, the only one of its kind in South Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Collective Ink04 Apr 2018 - 05 May 2018
Over 40 Artists explore the dramatic monochrome richness in an exhibition showcasing the diversity of INK as a medium. It all starts with PEN AND PAPER……. BLOCK PRINT – LINOCUT – ETCHING – MONOPRINT – DRYPOINT – INK DRAWING – INK PAINTING – FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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The Creative Block09 Dec 2017 - 26 Jan 2018
The Creative Block, administered by Spier Arts Trust
invites professional artists to participate in this artist career development opportunity. Regular hand-in days take place (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth) at specified locations. At this time, artists receive blank blocks to transform in the media of their choice for presentation and critique at the next hand-in day. When work is accepted by the curator, artists are paid immediately according to the number and size of blocks. The size and associated price of Creative Block artworks are set, regardless of artist tenure or medium. Each Creative Block carries a short artist biography on the back. This allows the artists to enjoy significant exposure as these artworks are displayed around the globe, travel to art fairs and are in the collections of private owners, patrons and corporate offices. We invite you to see how a collection of Creative Blocks displayed together becomes a newly created, single “work” that honestly and sometimes brutally expresses contemporary South African society. Visit Spier Arts Trust ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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RON BELLING07 Nov 2017 - 30 Nov 2017
ART IN FLIGHTCelebrating 100 years since the first aircraft arrived in Port Elizabeth. This privately owned collection of 154 oil paintings by the late Port Elizabeth Artist, Ron Belling, covers the history of military aviation in South Africa from 1917 to about 1976 and at the same time reflects some of the many changes that have taken place within Port Elizabeth and the Eastern Cape, a region important in the history of aviation in the sub-continent. Limited edition prints of 1/50 are available printed on fine art, water colour paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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