Energetic, healthy, professional and self-motivated practising contemporary artist, educator and creative development specialist with proven facilitation skills and experience in education, soft skills, technical skills and (project) management skills, as well as extensive experience in the specific areas of new media, printmaking, graphic design, creative process and also the design, implementation and facilitation of curriculum programmes in-line with national qualification Initiatives. Inherent ability to collaborate effectively within a team in order to realise organisational objectives through transformational leadership. Motivator with well developed communication and interpersonal skills and commitment to excellence in art practice, research, education and conceptual development.
13 February 1965
PO Box 4054
Cape Town
2010
South Africa

Cell: +27 83 290 1638
Work: +27 21 425 7591
Home/Fax: +27 21 465 8412
1982: Matric - Potchefstroom Gimnasium
1986: BSc - Potchefstroom University (renamed University of the North
West)
Majors: Human Physiology & Human Movement Sciences
Minor subjects completed successfully:
Chemistry and Physics 1
Botany and Zoology 1
Psychology 1&2
Biokinetics 1-3
Anatomy 1
1992: BA(FA) Cum Laude - Potchefstroom University (renamed
University of the North West)
Majors: Printmaking & Graphic Design
Minor subjects completed successfully:
Painting 1&2
History of Art 1-3
Philosophy 1
Photography 1
2000: MA(FA) Practical component cum laude - University of Pretoria
2010: PhD candidate (preparatory year) - University of Pretoria
January 1993 – June 1995
Lecturer in printmaking and graphic design, University of the North
West – Potchefstroom
July 1995 – December 1997
Lecturer in fine art, Vaal University of Technology – Vanderbijlpark
January 1998 – December 1999
Lecturer in fine art and graphic design, The Open Window Art
Academy – Pretoria
January 2000 - December 2010

Lecturer in creative development, Vega the Brand Communications
School – Johannesburg (2000 – 2006) and Cape Town - special projects manager & lecturer in creative development (2007 to 2010)
January 2011 - to date
Lecturer in drawing and graphic design, CTi – Durbanville campus –
Cape Town
1994: Invitation to stay and work at the Cité International des Arts,
Paris, France
1995: Invitation to stay and work at the Cité International des Arts,
Paris, France
1997/8: Invitation to stay and work at the Cité International des Arts,
Paris, France
1998: National Printmaking Conference, Rhodes University,
Grahamstown
:Freelance design work for Nampak (Cuddlers)
1998/9: Educational sojourn to Egypt to attend the 7th Cairo
Biennale
: Educational sojourn to Ethiopia and Kenya
1999: Non-toxic printmaking workshop at Fairview College, Grande
Prairie, Alberta, Canada
2001: Photoshop & Freehand courses at Vega, Sandton,
Johannesburg
2004: Educational sojourn to the Cite Internationale, Paris, France
2005: Educational sojourn to Croatia, Venice, Ghana & Zanzibar
: Educational sojourn to the Cite Internationale, Paris, France
2006: CD sleeve design for Justin Egling, Sandton, Johannesburg
2006 – 2009: Post-graduate research supervision
: Educational sojourn to New York City (July and November –
January 2007)
: Educational sojourn to Zanzibar
2007: Educational sojourn to Paris, Spain and Morocco
2007/8: Educational sojourn to NYC and Argentina
2008: Educational sojourn to Zanzibar and Madagascar
: External moderator at the CTI (Bellville and Rondebosch
campuses)
2009: Educational sojourn to Tourtour and Paris, France
: External moderator at the CTI (Bellville and Rondebosch
campuses), Cape Town
: External examiner – Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town
: Educational sojourn to NYC and San Francisco

Fine Arts:
Advanced printmaking – all processes (intaglio, xylography, silk-screening, engraving, lithography, including all photographic processes, new/digital printmaking)
Master printer – trained at the Atelier Torben Bo Halbirk,
Paris, France in 1994
Non-toxic printmaking
Drawing (traditional and conceptual)
Painting (traditional and conceptual)
Photography – traditional & digital (including b/w darkroom techniques)
New Media (including a wide variety of computer programmes and applications)
Installation and collaborative practice
Art curation
History of art
Critical theory
Extensive experience in creative process and development
Post-graduate research supervision
Graphic Design & Branding:
2d, including corporate id, print, outdoor etc.
3d, including packaging, product etc.
Ambient/ alternative media
Branding and strategy
Campaigns
History of Design
Design theory
Extensive experience in creative process and development
Specific computer/digital skills:
Advanced Adobe Photoshop (CS4)
Adobe Fireworks (CS4)
Advanced Macromedia Freehand MX
Basic Adobe Flash (CS4)
MS Office 2008 (Word, Excel, PP etc.)
iMovie HD
Basic stop-frame animation
Comfortable on both PC and Mac platforms
Focus Contemporary | Fine Young Art – Cape Town
University of Johannesburg Art Gallery gordart Gallery – Johannesburg artSPACE – Durban

artSPACE – Berlin, Germany
Leslie/Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Foundation, NYC, USA
1990: New Signatures - Pretoria
1991: Rolfes Impressions - Bloemfontein
: New Signatures - Pretoria
: Arts and Drama festival - Pretoria
1992: Pan Africa - Potchefstroom
1993: ABSA Atelier - Pretoria
: Momentum - Pretoria
: Reconciliations 2 - Potchefstroom
: PPC Young Sculptor Award - Pretoria
1994: ABSA Atelier - Johannesburg
: Kempton Park Fine Arts Award - Johannesburg
1995: Johannesburg Biennale fringe - WSSA - Pulse of Africa -
Johannesburg
: Kempton Park Fine Arts Award - Johannesburg
1996: ABSA Atelier - Pretoria
: 26th National exhibition of contemporary art - Strydom Gallery,
George
1998: ABSA Atelier - Pietersburg
1999: ABSA Atelier - Pretoria
2000: French-African Connection - Pretoria
2001: Gallery 88 - Sasolburg
: Merely Mortal - Kiteworks - Johannesburg
: Art on Paper (A decade of collaboration) – Melville
20o2: Edge, staff & industry exhibition , Vega, Sandton
2003: Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Award – Johannesburg
: SASOL Wax Art Competition – Sasolburg
: Brett Kebble Fine Arts Award – Cape Town
2004: Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Award – Johannesburg
2006: Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Award – Johannesburg
2009:
Dystopia (curated by Prof Elfriede Dreyer)
– Pretoria – UNISA art gallery – May 23 – June 30
– Johannesburg – Museumafrica – October 8 – November 15
– Bloemfontein – Oliewenhuis Art Museum – June 10 – August 8,
2010
: Exquisite Corpse print portfolio (curated by Judy Woodborne)
– KKNK, Oudtshoorn, Pretoria, Cape Town
1994
: Salle Edouard Sandoz, Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris - France
: Graffinova ‘94 - 6th annual triennale of prints and drawings - Vaasa
- Finland

: Deuxieme triennale mondiale d’estampes petit format,
Chamalieres - Auvergne - France
1995
: Art ‘95 - Bardonia - NYC - USA
: 18th International Independent Exhibition of Prints - Kanagawa -
Japan
: 21 Leipziger Grafikbörse - Leipzig – Germany
1996
: Show with Stanislav Marijanovic - Isle of KRK, Croatia
1997
: Quatrieme triennale mondiale d’estampes petit format -
Chamalieres - Auvergne, France
: 7th International biennale of portrait drawings and graphics - Tuzla -
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Artistas de l’atelier Torben Bo Halbirk, Museo Nacional del Grabado
- Buenos Aires - Argentina
1998
: Graffinova ‘98 - 7th triennale of prints and drawings - VAASA -
Finland
1999
: Mini print internacional cadaques - Barcelona - Spain
2000
: Cinqueme triennale mondiale d’estampes petit format,
Chamalieres - Auvergne – France
: International print triennial 2000 - Cracow - Poland
: International print triennale - Nürnberg - Germany
2001
: Address/Redress print collection, Cultureel Centrum - Leper -
Belgium
: Address/Redress print collection - Co Art Foundation - Ostend -
Belgium
: Breaking the silence print collection, Human Rights Convention,
Geneva, Switzerland
2002
: Breaking the silence: the HIV/AIDS billboard and print portfolio
: National Art Gallery of Namibia

:UCLA Fowler Museum, USA
:Palais de Nation, Geneva
: TATHAM Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
: University of Dundee, Scotland
:Dakar biennale, Senegal
: Asian biennale, Bangladesh
:South Africa House, London
2003
: 4th International graphic triennial, Bitola, Macedonia (special mention)
2004
: Caixanova engraving biennial, Spain
2005
: Galerie Gora, Montréal, Canada
2006
: New York That Is, Brooklyn Arts Council, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC,
USA
: Lilly Oncology on canvas, Royal College of Art, London, England
2007
: Group exhibition, Gallery 5+5, Brooklyn. NYC newmediafest2007:
Forum for internet technology in contemporary art
Curated by wilfried agricola de cologne http://www.javamuseum.org/blog/?page_id=44 http://www.nmartproject.net/artists/?p=1442
2008
: Art Actually!, Leslie/Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Foundation,
Soho, NYC, USA
: July, artSPACE, Berlin, Germany
: Einladung, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: Elledorado Jubiläumsauktion, Galerie Lorch+Seidel Contemporary,
Berlin, Germany
2009
: New Acquisitions, Leslie/Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Foundation,
SOHO, NYC, USA

: ASPOA (A small piece of Africa), artSPACE, Berlin, Germany
: Cold Sweat (The print series), Focus Contemporary, Tourtour,
France
2010
: Dystopia, Jan Colle Galerij – October 17 – November 21, 2010,
Ghent, Belgium
: The Landscape: Unity and Diversity, Centre for Exposition of World
Arts and Culture (CEWAC), Hyderabad, India, 23 July to 7 August
2010
: Summer Show, Focus Contemporary | Fine African Art. Tourtour,
South of France, July/August 2010
: A CULTURAL BRIDGE - INDIA / SOUTH AFRICA, Arts Association,
Pretoria, September 2010
2011
: Biennale Internationale D’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois
Rivieres, 19 June to 4 September, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada
: Collection 2010, 20 January to 31 March, Frans Masereel Centrum,
Kasterlee, Belgium
1993-96: Participated in numerous (more than 40) group shows in
Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Potchefstroom,
Grahamstown, George, Sasolburg and Boputhatswana
1993: South African Arts Association - Pretoria
1995: Pretoria Art Museum with Michael Heyns and friends
1996: Gala opening of the Open Window Contemporary Art Gallery
- Pretoria
: Squared Art - Café Palette - Pretoria Art Museum
: Masters exhibition - NSA - Durban
: Artists working in collaboration with the artist’s press - SAAA – ABSA
Centre – Pretoria
Selected exhibitions after 1996:
1997
: The Open Window Art Gallery - Pretoria
: Erotic Art - Thompson Gallery - Melville
: Annual Exhibition - Strydom Art Gallery - George
: The Art Circle - Potchefstroom
1998

: Gallery 88 - Sasolburg
: Johannes Stegman Art Gallery - Bloemfontein
: NSA - Durban with Diane Victor and Deanne Donaldson
: Campus Gallery - Printmaking 2 - University of Pretoria
1999
: Gallery 88 – Sasolburg
2000
: African French Connection – Pretoria
2001
: Written on the body - Millennium Gallery with Jaco Benade and
Errol Westley - Pretoria
: Flush - The Open Window Art Gallery with Hanneke Benade,
Annelise Bowker-Marais and Maja Pfeiffer - Pretoria
: NERVE - Vega staff exhibition - Sandton
: Official opening of the Millennium 2 gallery - Rosebank,
Johannesburg
2002
: Chance Encounters, The Art Space, Johannesburg
: 88 Artists, Gallery 88 Sasolburg
: Erotic Exhibition, Merely Mortal, Hyde Park
: Edge, Vega staff exhibition, Johannesburg
: Chance Encounters, Artspace gallery, Johannesburg
: Male Order, Durban Art Gallery (DAG), Durban
2003
: Love in a time of ambivalence, SANAVA Gallery, Pretoria
: Gay and lesbian film festival, Rosebank, Johannesburg
: Design exhibition, Merely Mortal Gallery, Johannesburg
: Erotica exhibition, SANAVA Gallery, Pretoria
: Male Order, Pretoria Art Museum
: gordart Gallery, Melville, Johannesburg
2004
: Residue, AVA, Cape Town with André Naudé
: art.co.za Group exhibition, Johannesburg
: Bonolo Botshelo (Fragile Life), Museumafrica, Johannesburg
: art lp, gordart Gallery, Melville, Johannesburg
: t-shirt Show, Supreme Guardian Council, Johannesburg

: Residue 2, Waterkloof, Pretoria
: David’s Choice, Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch
: Studio show with André Naudé, Waterkloof, Pretoria
: ani(male), Artspace, Johannesburg
: Points & Pixels, NSA, Durban
: Post – POP, Moja Modern, Johannesburg
: Cheap Scate, Moja Modern, Johannesburg
: Oppitafel, Artspace, Johannesburg
: Christmas show, gordart Gallery, Johannesburg
2005
: Group show, AVA, Cape Town
: Miniature Art, gordart Gallery, Johannesburg
: CUBE, CARFAX, Johannesburg
: Porn Again, Merely Mortal & gordart Gallery, Johannesburg
: Appletiser Art Commission, Studio Gesso, Johannesburg
: Smirnoff fridge commission, ATLAS Studios, Johannesburg
: Now is the time, Moja Modern, Johannesburg
: Beelspraak, Exhibition in Die Beeld Newspaper (co-curator with
Gordon Froud)
: MAN, Rust and Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
: Ansisters, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
: When joburg Is Asleep…, Moja Modern Gallery, Johannesburg
: Gallery Voir, Brooklyn Square, Pretoria
: Artists in Conversation, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
: Oppitafel, Artspace, Johannesburg
: ’Splat’, gordart Gallery, Johannesburg
2006
: 40 x 40 x 40, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
: 40 x 40 x 40, Melville, Johannesburg
: Corpus Colossus with Merwelene van der Merwe and Angus Taylor, gordart Gallery, Melville
: Group portrait show, AVA, Cape Town
: 18 years, Gallery 88, Sasolburg
: Chapter one (2003 – 2006), gordart, Snowflake building, AARDKLOP
Festival, Potchefstroom
2007
: Boerekitch, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
: ct24, Focus Contemporary, Cape Town
: Grand opening, Off the Wall Gallery, Paarl
: Talents, Focus Contemporary, Cape Town
: On Paper, Off the Wall Gallery, Paarl
: The postcard exhibition, Off the Wall Gallery, Paarl
2008

: Rendezvous sculpture exhibition, North-West University,
Potchefstroom
: Faces and Places, Off the Wall Contemporary, Paarl
: The postcard 2 exhibition, Off the Wall Contemporary, Paarl
: Centenary Exhibition, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
: Masters & Muses, KKNK, Oudtshoorn & iArt Gallery, Cape Town
: Substance, Lourensford Estate, Somerset West
: Festival of light (four person show), Focus Contemporary, Cape
Town
: Baring (Curated by Eunice Guestyn), AVA, Cape Town
: Ball Sports (Curated by Kirsty Cockerill), AVA, Cape Town
2009
: Exquisite Corpse print portfolio, Spencer Street Studio, Cape Town
: Exquisite Corpse print portfolio, KKNK Festival, Oudsthoorn
: Exquisite Corpse print portfolio, Rust & Vrede Gallery, Bellville
: Exquisite Corpse print portfolio, Arts Association, Pretoria
: Exquisite Corpse print portfolio, Arts Association, Cape Town
: CAPE Printmakers, South African Print Gallery, Cape Town
: Dark side of the moon, UCA Gallery, Cape Town
: All together now group exhibition, Focus Contemporary,
Cape Town
: Group show with Judy Woodborne & Paul Birchal, Rust & Vrede
Gallery, BelLville
: Cultivaria 2009 – Offthewall Contemporary Art Gallery - Paarl
: Affordable art show – artSPACE Gallery – Durban
2010
: EsCape – Arts Association, Pretoria
: Untitled – Rust and Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town
1991: Cosmos Gallery - Potchefstroom
1993: Potchefstroom Museum
1994: Salle Edouart Sandoz - Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris -
France
: Potchefstroom museum
: SAAA - Pretoria
1995: Melville - Johannesburg
: Forest Town - Johannesburg
: The Visual Art Gallery - Melville
1996: The Open Window Art Gallery - Pretoria
: Potchefstroom Museum
: Orange Grove - Johannesburg
1997: The Open Window Art Gallery - Pretoria
1998: NSA Galleries - Durban
: The Visual Art Gallery - Melville

1999: Graceland - Secunda
2000: Brother (masters degree exhibition)- Millennium Gallery –
Pretoria
2002: (Dis)obedience: the first Icarus and Pandora dialogue, Merely
Mortal, Hyde Park
2003: Bitter Love, artist’s book launch and show at Merely Mortal,
Johannesburg
: Studio exhibition, Craighall, Johannesburg
2005: Mavericks, Magicians & Immortals 1, Moja Modern,
Johannesburg
: Secrets & Lies: Her majesty’s (ivory) tower, Gesseau Art, Craighall
2006: Secrets & Lies: Her majesty’s (ivory) tower, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
Crash, Artspace Gallery, Johannesburg
Corpus Colossus, gordart Gallery, Johannesburg
Desiderium: Recens cosmicos, KWV Emporium, Cultivaria Festival,
Paarl
Selected work, Memories of Zanzibar Gallery, Stonetown, Zanzibar,
Tanzania
2007: The Eye Does Not See Itself, Upstairs at the AVA, Cape Town
2007: Indigo Boy, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery
2007: Wings of clay | Feet of light, Gallery 5+5, Brooklyn, NYC (A collaboration with Dianne Heesom-Green)
2008: Indigo Boy, Dorpstreet Gallery, Stellenbosch
: Small Poison, FRIED Contemporary, Pretoria
2009: Cold Sweat, Focus Contemporary, Cape Town
: Cold Sweat (The graphic works), artSPACE, Durban
2010: Pretending to be Flesh, Focus Contemporary, Cape Town
Potchefstroom Museum - South Africa
Potchefstroom University - South Africa
Ostrobothnian Museum - Vaasa - Finland
Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris - France
Museum of Contemporary Art - Chamalieres - Auvergne - France
SAAA - Head office - Pretoria - South Africa (collection sold)
Biblioteque Nationale - Paris - France
The Robert Loder private collection - Johannesburg - South Africa
Telkom SA LTD - Johannesburg
Investec Bank - Cape Town
Pretoria Technikon - Pretoria
Durban University of Technology
Sasol – Johannesburg
Sasol Group Services – Secunda
Sasol Gas – Johannesburg
Medunarodna Galerija Portreta - Tuzla - Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Muceo Nacional del Grabado - Buenos Aires - Argentina
Durban Art Gallery - Durban

ABSA Bank – Johannesburg
Rand Merchant Bank – Johannesburg
Spier Collection – Stellenbosch
Sanlam Collection – Cape Town
MTN Collection – Johannesburg
Artbank – Johannesburg
The Department of Art and Technology, – Pretoria
New York Public Library print collection, - New York City, USA
The Leslie/Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Foundation, - Soho, New
York City
Ampersand Foundation studio collection, - New York City
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Gallery 5 + 5, Brooklyn, - New York City
Dept of Science and Technology - CSIR – Pretoria
RMB Academy – Johannesburg
Potchefstroom Gimnasium – Potchefstroom
University of Johannesburg – Johannesburg
ATKV – Johannesburg
Frans Masereel Centrum – Kasterlee, Belgium
MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art) – New York City, USA
1995:
I have not forgotten my heart – in the Bibliotheque Nationale’s artist book collection – Paris, France
: Natal Technikon print exchange ‘95 - Durban
1998:
Rhodes University print exchange - Grahamstown
2000:
Address/Redress - Bloemfontein National Museum print exchange - Bloemfontein
: (re)creation - Artist’s portfolio - Johannesburg
: Breaking the silence - Artists for human rights portfolio
(gold medal in Geneva 2001) - Durban Technikon
2003:
Bitter Love, artist’s book, Johannesburg, - in the collections of
Heather Greig (Merely Mortal), Spier wine estate and Jack Ginsberg
2004:
Residue , artist’s book, AVA , Cape Town
2005:
MTN X10: Ten years of democracy , artist’s portfolio exchange
2006:
Crash – the photographic works, Johannesburg
2007:
Gentle wind – artist’s book, New York City
2007:
The little book of secrets – artist’s book, Indigo Boy, in the collection of Richard Berger and Ettienne Koekemoer
2009:

Exquisite Corpse – print exchange curated by Judy Woodborne,
Cape Town, Pretoria, KKNK Festival, Oudtshoorn
Cold Sweat – artist’s book, Cape Town - in the collections of Jack
Ginsberg (Johannesburg), Spier wine estate (Stellenbosch), Ettienne
Koekemoer & Richard Berger (Cape Town) and Adv. André
Bezuidenhout (Johannesburg)
2010:
The Feather Room – mid-career book, Cape Town – with funding from the NAC (with contributing text by Franci Cronjé)
2011:
Beautiful World – artist’s book, Cape Town and Belgium – During a three week residency at the Frans masereel Centrum on invitation from the Flemish Government, Belgium
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Leefstyl. Sondag 24 Oktober: 10
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1989:
EVE prize for achievement in painting and graphic design -
Potchefstroom University
1990:
Ster Kinekor bursary - Potchefstroom University
: First prize for original poetry - Standard Bank campus talent festival -
Potchefstroom University
1991:
RB Hagat bursary - Potchefstroom University
: August Venter bursary - Potchefstroom University
: First prize for original poetry - Standard Bank campus talent festival -
Potchefstroom University
1992:
SABS Design Institute Achievers Award - nominee
: First prize for fine arts - Standard Bank campus talent festival -
Potchefstroom University
1996:
FRD grant for MA(FA) studies at the University of Pretoria
1997:
Department of Art, Culture, Science, and Technology grant for the
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi exhibition at The Open Window Art Gallery -
Pretoria
1999:
NAC International bursary for workshops in non-toxic printmaking at the Grande Prairie Regional College - Alberta - Canada
2001:
Gold medal for the Breaking the Silence portfolio of prints (27 SA artists ) at the Human Rights Convention - Geneva – Switzerland
2003:
Top 71, Ekurhuleni fine arts award, Johannesburg
2004:
Top 71, Ekurhuleni fine arts award, Johannesburg
1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2004:
Invited artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris,
France
2005:
Chosen artist to appear on the 13th “The Apprentice”, SABC3,
Johannesburg
2006:
Ampersand Foundation Fellowship - NYC
: Kanna Award, best visual artist at the KKNK Festival, Oudtshoorn
: NAC International bursary, Ampersand Foundation fellowship, NYC
2007:

Invited curator: Flesh! @ KKNK, Oudtshoorn
2009:
NAC grant for a published book of own mid-career work – The
Feather Room (preparation)
2010:
Invited artist in residence - Frans Masereel
Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2011:
Invited artist in residence - Frans Masereel
Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
1.
Prof and Titia Ballot – History of art, University of Stellenbosch
Tel: 021 887 1445
Cell: 0828502053
Email: 31001134@icon.co.z
2. Franci Cronjé – PhD candidate, film and media studies,
UCT
Tel: 0825573647
Email: franci.cronje@gmail.com
3. Migo Manz – Gallery director, Focus Contemporary, Cape
Town
Tel: 0729122929
Email: migomanz@aol.com
4.Stefan Hundt – curator, Sanlam Collection, Cape Town
Tel: 0834572699
Email: stefan.hundt@sanlam.co.za
5. Jack Ginsberg, art collector, Johannesburg
Tel: 0116468279 OR 0116706515
Email: JACKG@cjpetrow.co.za
6. Dr Carla Enslin – principle, Vega The Brand
Communications School, Cape Town
Tel: 0723400665
Email: carla@vegaschool.com
Edited biography for Christiaan Diedericks
By Hayden Proud
The densely layered images and objects in Christiaan Diedericks’ work bear testimony to the course that he has charted for himself as a professional artist since 1994. His works collectively facilitate a greater appreciation of a creative endeavour, which are contemporary with the halcyon years of the 'new' South
Africa. Some of the earliest works in his oevre date from the watershed year of

the first democratic elections in 1994 followed by the country's adoption of a new constitution in 1996. The protection and freedoms afforded gay , bisexual and transgendered people through the prohibition of any discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation established a new legal and social 'landscape' against which Diedericks' works have not only been created, but by which they must also be evaluated and interpreted. His work confirms him not only as a speculative artist-philosopher on the diverse and complex psychosexuality of masculinity, but latterly, especially in his most recent Cold Sweat series of 2009, as a commentator on global political and social issues.
The sheer diversity of the visual sources, references and styles evident in
Diedericks' work define him as an avowed post-modernist. He openly defines himself in as a sort of 'cat burglar' who 'loves to “steal” from popular and contemporary culture', while at the same time 'employing my own photography as a tool more and more'.(1) It is not only popular and contemporary culture that come under his purview, but also the deeper recesses of art history, and specifically, it seems, the work of iconic artists who also happened to have been homosexual, such as Leonardo da Vinci ,
Michelangelo and the sculptors of Antiquity. To this can be added more recent figures such as Tom of Finland who in turn had drawn on the work of the
American Paul Cadmus and other figures of the early twentieth-century
American avantgarde who openly expressed their sexual orientation in their work.
However, to only seek the purely visual cues in Diedericks' work is to overlook the literary and philosophical elements which underpin his thinking. Among the literary sources that have inspired him is that of the 19th-century American poet Walt Whitman. Whitman's open homosexuality and his belief in individual freedoms has made him a cultural role-model for many gay writers and artists, especially in the post-Stonewall (post-1969) era. It has been suggested that the very nature and texture of Whitman's poetry, which was itself derived from the diverse vernacular rhythms of New York slang and the rhetoric of American journalese, inspired certain gay visual artists to play with its visual equivalent, to similarly overlay, mix and fuse imagery drawn from social history, the mass media and personal, autobiographical sources. The autobigraphical runs like a leitmotif through much contemporary and 'queer' art produced in this vein.
Diedericks’ body of work sits well within this relatively new 'tradition', even as he brings his peculiarly South African experience to bear upon it. Part of the serious intention of the new and openly-gay artist is to reject his 'outsider status'; to proclaim his shared humanity with the rest of human-kind and to embrace it, as Whitman himself stated in the following words:
I celebrate myself,
And what I assume, you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you.(2).
Diedericks, like the gay American artist and AIDS-activist David Wojnarowicz
(1954-1992) and even the so-called 'Pop' artist Robert Rauschenberg before him, produces work that is highly self-conscious and deliberate in its hyperbolic, if not anarchic, eclecticism. Textual elements overlay images

appropriated from photography and the mass media, art history, the cinema and sources of an autobiographical nature. Elements articulated in terms of pure line are juxtaposed with, or suspended over others that are either painterly or photographic in nature. The effect of layering this diverse imagery is one of compressing historical time within a single image. Despite the apparently idiosyncratic and incidental nature of Diedericks' approach to image-making, his firm hand, fine craftsmanship and his calculated content deliver to great effect. His meticulous mastery of a variety of graphic techniques, both traditional and experimental, support the complex images that flow in unison from the twin sources of his artistic imagination on one hand and his indignation at the hypocrisy and inhumanity of the world on the other.
Diedericks is an artist who is continually involved in evolving his own distinctive language around his South African gay identity. The internal dialectic in his work is between a deep sense of longing for love, completion and acceptance and a deep critique of the needless internal pain and suffering that a denial of these inflicts on the other.
Ultimately, any gay artist who chooses to identify himself openly with queer issues and the politics of gay identity has to deal with the politics and issues of the body; of the matters of sexual expression and the nature of love. As
Gregory Woods has summed up so articulately:
Eros pitches his house in the human body. It is here that all declarations of love, poetic or otherwise, have their origin; and it is hither that, even dizziest flights of spirituality, they must return. The verbal after their flourish of erotic candour – the song or the sonnet, graffito or billet doux – is an echo of the body's signs, an articulation of the flesh.(3)
To this one could equally add, in the case of the work of Christiaan Diedericks, the marks of the artist's hand as he inscribes and articulates with brush, burin, chisel or pencil. These too echo the body's signs; these too are ultimately an articulation of the flesh.
Cape Town, November, 2009
1.
email correspondence with Chris Diedericks, 27 October, 2009.
2.
From Whitman's ‘Song of Myself’ in his extended poem Leaves of Grass.
3.
Gregory Woods. 1987. Articulate Flesh: Male homoeroticism and
Modern poetry. Yale University Press: New York and London, p. 1.