List of South African Artists
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List of South African Artists
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Paul Munro
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- Jane Alexander (1959-)
- Tyrone AppollisTyrone AppollisTyrone Appollis is a South African artist and poet.He studied art at the Community Arts Project under Cecil Skotnes between 1982 and 1987. He has held numerous local and international art exhibitions, and in 2008 released his first volume of poetry....
- Lionel Abrams (1931 - 1997)
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- Laurens Barnard (1957-) www.laurensbarnard.com
- Francois Badenhorst (1934-)
- Bridget Baker
- Beezy BaileyBeezy BaileyBeezy Bailey is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and ceramics....
- Kenneth BakerCecil Kenneth Baker (artist)Cecil Kenneth Baker was a South African artist.Kenneth, as he is better known, was born at Harfield Road, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa, which was, at the time of his birth, a predominantly working class suburb....
- Wayne Barker (1963-)
- Walter BattissWalter BattissWalter Whall Battiss was a South African artist, generally considered the foremost South African abstract painter and known as the creator of the quirky "Fook Island" concept....
- Hanneke Benade (1972-)
- Belinda Blignaut
- Charles Davidson BellCharles Davidson BellCharles Davidson Bell was the Surveyor-General in the Cape, an artist, heraldist, and designer of Cape medals and stamps.-Life history:...
(1813–1882) Scottish-born painter, artist and stamp designer - Willie BesterWillie BesterWillie Bester is a South African artist known for his installations made of found objects.- Life : Born in the Montagu section of Cape Flats, at the age of ten Bester was required to move to a township with his family after the area of Montagu was designated under apartheid’s Group Areas Act as...
- Harry BolusHarry BolusHarry Bolus was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the and bequeathing his library and a large part of his fortune to the South African College...
(1834–1911) botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist - Cobus van Bosch (1962-)
- Dineo Seshee Bopape
- Willem BoshoffWillem BoshoffWillem Boshoff is a South African artist known primarily for his conceptual installations. He is one of South Africa's foremost contemporary artists and regularly exhibits nationally and internationally....
- Wim Botha
- David Brown (1951), sculptor
- Rhona BrownRhona BrownRhona Brown is a South African botanical artist and housewife.She was educated at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and UNISA graduating with a B.A. in Fine Arts and with a National Art Teachers Certificate. She worked at the in Pretoria for two spells - 1944-46 and 1965-69 and taught...
(1920- ), botanical artist - Winifred BruntonWinifred BruntonWinifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry was a painter most famous for her portraits of Egyptian pharaohs, published as Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt and Great Ones of Ancient Egypt . She married Egyptologist Guy Brunton on 28 April 1906...
(1880–1959), painter, especially of Egyptian pharaohs - Francis Burger
- Anton ButlerAnton BütlerAnton Bütler was a Swiss painter.-References:*This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia....
artist, surfboard shaper and designer, paintings of landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes and wildlife. http://www.antonbutler.co.za
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- Norman CatherineNorman CatherineNorman Catherine in East London, South Africa is a South African artist whose œuvre spans painting, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media...
- Bettie Cilliers-BarnardBettie Cilliers-BarnardBettie Cillers-Barnard was a South African abstract artist, generally known for her large canvases of birds in flight.She was also the mother of well-known South African actress Jana Cilliers....
- Juilia Rosa Clarke
- Steven Cohen
- Gillian CondyGillian CondyGillian Condy, born 5 December 1952 Nairobi, is a South African botanical artist. She has illustrated over 200 plates for , contributed to various other publications and 8 plates for . She has illustrated two books by Charles Craib, Geophytic Pelargoniums and Grass Aloes in the South African Veld...
(1952- ), botanical artist - John CowanJohn CowanJohn Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival...
- Gavin Collins - artist in oils, sculptor and designer
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- Gabriel de Jongh
- Tinus de JonghTinus de JonghMartinus Johannes "Tinus" de Jongh was one of South Africa's most popular painters.Self-taught, he began his career as a decorator in Holland, and then pursued painting full-time. He achieved some note when the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam purchased one of his early pictures...
, painter, father of Gabriel de Jongh - Ethel May DixieEthel May DixieEthel May Dixie was a South African botanical artist.Ethel Dixie was largely self-taught unlike her older sister who enjoyed the benefits of tuition by Thomas Bowler. Nonetheless, she was the principal artist for Rudolf Marloth's The Flora of South Africa...
(1876–1973), botanical artist
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- Peter EastmanPeter EastmanPeter Eastman is the lead developer of the free 3D graphics application Art of Illusion and creator of other software titles such as the interactive fiction game, ....
- Paul Edmunds
- Paul EmsleyPaul EmsleyPaul Emsley is a South African painter now resident in Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire, England. He is a former lecturer at the Stellenbosch University and the 2007 winner of the BP Portrait Award for portrait painting.-Awards:-External links:**...
(1947- ), portrait painter and lecturer - Garth ErasmusGarth ErasmusGarth Erasmus is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting,Garth's work is represented in several art collections, including the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution.- External links :* * * *...
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- Dumile Feni (1939-1991), sculptor and printmaker.
- Cyril FradanCyril FradanCyril Fradan was a South African artist and designer who worked almost exclusively in acrylic paints incorporating various glazing techniques.- Life and work :...
(1928-?), artist and designer especially of acrylic paints incorporating various glazing techniques
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- Anthony GaddAnthony GaddAnthony Gadd was a British bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, he competed in the two-man event, but fell during the third run and did not finish.-References:****...
Nudes, landscapes, trees and abstracts - Kendell GeersKendell GeersKendell Geers is an artist, performance artist, musician and film-maker. Geers was born in Johannesburg in 1968.Geers' commonly given birthdate of May 1968 is fictional. Freire Barnes, "", Artist Pension Trust, 4 October 2007. Accessed 15 February 2011. In Venice in 1993, Geers rose to...
- Anna Maria Chalotte Geldenhuys
- Josh Ginsberg
- Jared Ginsberg
- David GoldblattDavid GoldblattDavid Goldblatt is a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes.-Life and work:...
- Simon Gush
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- Carl Otto Hager (1813-1898), architect, painter and photographer.
- Dan Halter
- Farouk Hanslo (1939-2010), landscape artist and painter.
- Trasi Henen
- Caesar Carl Hans HenkelCaesar Carl Hans HenkelCaesar Carl Hans Henkel , was a German-born South African forester, cartographer, painter, soldier and botanist. He was the father of John Spurgeon Henkel....
(1839–1913), German-born South African forester, cartographer, painter, soldier and botanist - Matthew HindleyMatthew HindleyMatthew Hindley is a South African artist born in Cape Town 1974, who lives and works in Cape Town. After graduating with the Michaelis Prize from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2002, Hindley has explored sculpture, drawing, video and physical computing and more recently has focussed on...
(born 1974) - Candice Hirson
- Mark Hipper (1960-2010).
- Nicholas HloboNicholas HloboNicholas Hlobo is a South African artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born in 1975 in Cape Town. He earned a Bachelor of Technology from Technikon Witwatersrand in 2002. He creates large sculptural works that are expansive masses which at once feel oozey, voluptuous and highly...
(born 1975), sculptor. - Robert HodginsRobert HodginsRobert Hodgins was a British-born South African artist, best known for paintings and printmaking.-Life history:Robert Hodgins was born in Dulwich, London, on 27 June 1920, and immigrated to South Africa in 1938...
(1920-2010), English-born South African painter and printmaker. - Ruan Hoffmann (born 1971),South African ceramic artist,printmaker and painter
- Rosa HopeRosa Hopethumb|Tableau on Irene Post Office near Pretoria - 1940Rosa S. Hope , was an English painter who visited South Africa in 1935 and stayed on...
(1902–1972), English-born South African painter - Pieter HugoPieter HugoPieter Hugo was born 1976 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture and whose work engages with both documentary and art traditions with a focus on African communities. - Early Life :...
(born 1976), photographer
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- Gavin JantjesGavin JantjesGavin Jantjes is a South African painter.A native of Cape Town, Jantjes studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art and the Hochschule für bildende Künste, in Hamburg, where he received a master's degree in 1972....
(1948- ), painter - Barbara JeppeBarbara JeppeBarbara Jeppe was a South African botanical artist.Born in the mining town of Pilgrim's Rest, she was the daughter of Victor Brereton, a land-surveyor, and Gladys Evans. At an early age her mother introduced her to the world of wild flowers.She was married to Carl Louis Jeppe, a psychiatrist...
(1921–1999), botanical artist - Tinus de JonghTinus de JonghMartinus Johannes "Tinus" de Jongh was one of South Africa's most popular painters.Self-taught, he began his career as a decorator in Holland, and then pursued painting full-time. He achieved some note when the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam purchased one of his early pictures...
(1885–1942), painter
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- Anron Kannemeyer
- William KentridgeWilliam KentridgeWilliam Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two...
- David KoloaneDavid KoloaneThe artist David Nthubu Koloane was born on June 5, 1938 in the township of Alexandra, a suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa. In his drawings, paintings and collages he explores actual questions about political injustice and human rights...
- David KuijersDavid KuijersDavid Kuijers is a South-African painter.Kuijers was born on 30 March 1962 in Vanderbijlpark, near Johannesburg, of Dutch immigrant parents. He completed his schooling at the School of Art, Music and Ballet in Pretoria achieving a distinction in Graphics and in 1980 received the best Painter award...
(1962- ), painter, designer and illustrator - Sydney Kumalo (1935-1988), sculptor and painter
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- Niankoye Lama
- Dylan Lewis (1964–), Sculptor focusing on the animal form
- Cythna LettyCythna LettyCythna Lindenberg Letty , was a South African botanical artist and is regarded as a doyenne of South African botanical art by virtue of the quality and quantity of her meticulously executed paintings and pencil sketches, produced over a period of 40 years with the National Herbarium in...
(1895–1985), botanical artist - Johann Louw (1965–)
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- Noria MabasaNoria MabasaNoria Muelwa Mabasa is a Venda artist, who works primarily in the ceramic and wood mediums. Completely self-taught, Mabasa currently resides at the Tshino village in the Vuwani area of Venda, where she runs an art school in which she instructs her students in the art of clay-pot and sculpture making...
- Virginia Mackenny
- Billy MandindiBilly MandindiBuysile "Billy" Mandindi was a black South African activist-artist who participated in a landmark protest in Cape Town in 1989, the so-called Purple Rain Protest...
- Louis MaqhubelaLouis Maqhubela- Biography :Louis Maqhubela studied at the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg. One of his earliest exhibitions was in 1959 in Johannesburg, within Artists of Fame and Promise...
- Gerhard MarxGerhard Marx-Biography:Born in 1976, he completed his Master degree in Fine Arts cum laude at the University of Cape Town in 2004. He has worked with well known artists such as William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company...
- Judith MasonJudith MasonJudith Mason, born Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, is a South African artist who has created oil paintings, graphics, mixed media and tapestries, rich in symbolism and mythology, and displaying a rare technical virtuosity....
- Michael McgarryMichael McGarryMichael McGarry was a successful association footballer who frequently represented New Zealand in the 1980s and 90s.-Club career:...
- Johannes Petrus Meintjes (1923–1980), artist, author and historian
- Jan van der MerweJan van der MerweJan van der Merwe is a South African sprinter.Jan van der Merwe, the South African athlete, recently signed a contract to play rugby with the Blue Bulls, a South African provincial franchise. He has also been included in the Springbok-Sevens group.-External links:...
- John MeyerJohn Meyer (artist)John Meyer is a South African painter.He has exhibited extensively in South African and abroad specialising in landscapes and portraits in a photo-realist style...
(1942- ), painter - Tommy Motswai (1963)
- Zwelethu MthethwaZwelethu MthethwaZwelethu Mthethwa is a South African painter and photographer.Mthethwa, a native of Durban, received his diplomas at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received...
(1960- ), painter and photographer - Brett MurrayBrett MurrayBrett Murray is a South African artist mostly known for his steel and mixed media wall sculptures. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa...
- Credo Mutwa
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- Robyn Cooke
- Christian Nerf
- Robyn Nesbitt
- Hermann NiebuhrHermann NiebuhrHermann Niebuhr is a South African artist who lives in Johannesburg. He utilizes oils on canvas in a classical painterly style to document urban decay as well as rural landscapes.Niebuhr was born in Johannesburg in 1972...
(1972- ), painter of primarily urban and rural landscapes - Andre van Niekerk
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- Georgia PapageorgeGeorgia PapageorgeGeorgia Papageorge is a South African installation artist active in the field of earth art.A native of Simonstown, Cape Province, Papageorge earned her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of South Africa in Pretoria in 1979; she earned a higher diploma in graphics from Pretoria...
- Tracy Payne
- George PembaGeorge PembaGeorge Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba was a South African painter and writer. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Ikhamanga.Pemba was born in 1912 in Hill's Kraal, Korsten, Port Elizabeth...
- Peet PienaarPeet PienaarPeet Pienaar is a South African performance artist, most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000...
- Jacobus Hendrik PierneefJacobus Hendrik PierneefJacobus Hendrik Pierneef Pretoria, was a South African landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters...
- Barbara PikeBarbara PikeRosalie Barbara Pike born 29 March 1933 in Johannesburg is a South African botanical artist.-Biography:Barbara Pike is one of two daughters born to Barend Elzas, an industrial chemist, and his wife Klara 'Claire' Kindinger. She attended the Parktown High School for Girls in Johannesburg and...
(1933- ), botanical artist - Alexis PrellerAlexis PrellerAlexis Preller was a South African painter. He trained at the Westminster School of Art from which he graduated in 1934 and later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris ....
- Andrew Putter
- Penny Siopis
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- Trevor RabinTrevor RabinTrevor Charles Rabin is a South African born musician, best known as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British progressive rock band Yes from 1983–1994, and since then, as a film composer.- Early years :...
(born 1954) South African-born (now American) musician and composer - Jo Ractliffe
- Gavin RainGavin RainGavin Rain is a contemporary South African artist, working primarily in acrylic, best known for his Neo-Pointillist style paintings.-Life and work:...
- Surendran ReddySurendran ReddySurendran Reddy was a South African composer and pianist.After his studies at the Royal College of Music and King's College in London he had a highly successful international career as a classical and jazz pianist...
(born 1962) South African composer and pianist - Richard Rennie
- Dolf RieserDolf RieserDolf Rieser was a South African born British painter, printmaker, and teacher.-Early life and education:Dolf Rieser was born in King William's Town, South Africa, and educated in Germany and Switzerland...
(1898–1983), South African-born British painter, printmaker, and teacher - Tracy Rose
- Athi-Patra Ruga
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- Jonah Sack
- Ruth SacksRuth SacksRuth Sacks is a South African artist currently living in Johannesburg. She completed a laureateship at the HISK in Gent, Belgium, in 2009 and an MFA at the University of Cape Town in 2007. She was born on the 27th September 1977...
- Peter Schutz
- Berni SearleBerni SearleBerni Searle is a South African photographer and installation artist. Trained originally as a sculptor, she is best known for her installations consisting of found objects mixed with photographs of her own body, marked in some fashion to suggest scarification ritual and displayed to suggest...
- Gerard SekotoGerard SekotoGerard Sekoto , was a South African artist and musician. He is recognized as the pioneer of urban black art, social realism, and more recently as the father of South African art and of his 8 daughters and 3 sons...
- Claudette Schreuders
- Irma SternIrma SternIrma Stern was a major South African artist who achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime.-Life:...
- Lucas SitholeLucas SitholeLucas Sithole was a South African sculptor best known for his work in mainly indigenous woods, as well as for his sculptures in bronze, stone and other media....
- Mary Sibande
- Penny Siopis (1953)
- Cecil SkotnesCecil SkotnesCecil Skotnes was a prominent South African artist.He was born in East London in 1926, studied drawing in Florence, Italy, the Witwatersrand Technical Art School and then the University of the Witwatersrand....
- Sean SlemonSean SlemonSean Slemon is a South African artist who works in sculpture, installation and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City, New York...
- Kathryn Smith
- David Southwood
- Frank Sydney SpearsFrank Sydney SpearsFrank Sydney Spears was a South African artist. He was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.He arrived in South Africa as a designer for Brimble and Briggs Ltd. in 1928...
(1906–1991) - Paul StopforthPaul StopforthPaul Stopforth is a South African artist. His politically charged work was suppressed in his native country by the apartheid government and he left for the United States in 1988. He recently retired from his position as Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate...
- Richard Scott (artist)Richard Scott (artist)Richard Scott is a South African artist, residing in Cape Town and well known for the phrase Naive meets Pop art to describe his unique take on Art. He is very well known for his art both in South Africa and internationally.Richard matriculated in 1986 from Norkem Part High School in Kempton Park,...
- Richardt StrydomRichardt StrydomRichardt Strydom is a practicing artist, and Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the North-West UniversityRichardt Strydom is a practicing artist, and Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the North-West University...
(1971)
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- Seima Tebogo
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- Angus Taylor
- Michael Taylor
- Guy TillimGuy TillimGuy Tillim is a South African photographer known for his black and white and later digital work, mainly of third world Africa and often of war- and trouble-stricken areas....
(born 1962), photographer - Vladimir TretchikoffVladimir TretchikoffVladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff was one of the most commercially successful artists of all time - his painting Chinese Girl is one of the best selling art prints ever.Tretchikoff was a...
(1930 - 2006) - Lawrence Holme TwentymanLawrence Holme TwentymanLawrwnce Holme Twentyman was a prominent Silversmith in Cape Town.-Life:Lawrence Holme Twentyman was born in Tithebarn St., Liverpool son of John Middleton Twentyman and Phoebe Holme. In 1818 he went to the Cape with his younger brother William Holme Twentyman after they inherited money from a...
(1783-1852), silversmith
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- VerikaVerikaVerika is an South African, abstract expressionist painter focusing on femininity and sensuality.She has Fine Art diploma, majoring in painting and mixed media at Ruth Prowse School of Art.-Theme:...
- Jan Vermeiren (born 1949), paintings mainly in oil on canvas, etchings and lithography ,
- Diane VictorDiane VictorDiane Victor, renowned artist and printmaker who has established herself as a major figure in South Africa and internationally, was born in Witbank, South Africa...
- Jan Ernst Abraham VolschenkJan Ernst Abraham VolschenkJan Ernst Abraham Volschenk , was a South African painter, noted for his majestic landscapes of the Langeberg Range in the Western Cape Province....
(1853–1936), landscape painter - Maurice van EsscheMaurice van EsscheMaurice van Essche was a major South African artist and art teacher who achieved national and international recognition in his lifetime.-Life:...
(1906-1977 ), Belgian-born South African painter, oil, guache, acrylic and water-color; inspired by time in Belgian Congo (1939), inter alia
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- Jeremy WaferJeremy Wafer-Early life:Born in Durban, to Laura, a nurse, and Michael "Mick" Wafer, a World War II naval pensioner from Aghada, Co. Cork, Ireland, Wafer grew up on a farm with his brothers Patrick & Timothy before earning his undergraduate degree in fine arts from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg in...
- Mary Wafer
- Donovan WardDonovan WardDonovon Ward is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting and sculpture....
- Ellaphie Ward-HilhorstEllaphie Ward-HilhorstJohanna Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst was a noted South African botanical artist.She received her early education in Pretoria. After matriculating from Pretoria Girls' High School she started work in 1939 as a cartographer in the Survey Department of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines...
(1920–1994), botanical artist - James WebbJames WebbJames Webb, Jim Webb or Jimmy Webb may refer to:Public service*James B. Webb, known as J. B. Webb , influential in shaping Australia's international relations and aid during the 1950s, 60s and 70s*James E...
- Aaron Witkin (1934-1999)
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- Asha ZeroAsha ZeroAsha Zero is a South African artist.Asha Zero is a pseudonym, intended to draw attention to identity as a shifting, unstable concept, while deflecting attention from the so-called person behind the name...
- Ian van ZylIan van ZylMatheus Christiaan van Zyl, known as Ian van Zyl , is a Namibian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for the Namibian team against Uganda in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup. In the same competition the following year, he took 8-34 against Ireland, albeit in a losing cause...
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