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Artist: Doreen Southwood ( South Africa, 1974 - present ) -
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Main Category: Installation
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Genres: Contemporary African Art, Conceptual Art
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Biography: It's difficult to talk about Southwood's work without talking about the artist herself because she so unashamedly bares herself, warts-and-all, to an audience.
Plumbing the depths of her conservative, white, middle-class Afrikaans upbringing, Southwood unearths a nasty cycle of repression, abuse and the coping mechanisms offered her by this society where women occupy a silent and haunted interior.
Southwood's candidness about her own disposition leaves a viewer trapped between doubting her sincerity and wanting to know less about a near stranger. 'Too close for comfort', her first one person show, held in 2000, presented the viewer with this dilemma in an all too attractive way. The seductive surface, exquisite craftsmanship and obsessive nature of much of the work lulled a viewer into a complacency that was rudely disrupted by both the contents of individual works and an air of quietness and oppression attending the whole exhibition.
1974
Born in Cape Town, where the artist still lives and works
1998
BAFA University of Stellenbosch
Awards:
1998
University of Stellenbosch , Awarded Top Student for Fine Art
1999
Kempton Park Tembisa Competition
Awarded Stellenbosch 2000 Bursary
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Exhibition History: Selected Exhibitions:
2000
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery, Group Exhibition - 'Emergency'
The Granary, Cape Town, Group Exhibition - 'Celebrating Difference'
Bronze Age Foundry, Simonstown , Group Exhibition - 'Cast'
2001
Red Cross fundraising exhibition, Cape Town
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition - 'Too Close For Comfort'
ABSA Atelier Award Exhibition, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
Belville Arts Association, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Group Exhibition - 'Aarsel/Waver'
International Contemporary Art Fair of Marbella, Group Exhibition
Artscape, Cape Town , Group Exhibition
Cape Town group exhibition, curated by Public Eye - 'Homeport'
2002
Bellville Arts Association, ABSA- l'Atelier
Klein Karoo Kunstefees, group exhibition, curated by Clive van den Berg - 'Images of Self'
Spark! Gallery, Johannesburg, two person exhibition with Antoinette Murdoch - 'Eksie Perfeksie (Just Perfect)'
2003
Klein Karoo Kunstefees, group exhibition, curated by Lucia Burger- "The Swimmer"
2003
Winner of the prestigious Brett Kebble Art AWard
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Collections: Numerous private collections in South Africa, England, Holland and USA
Public Collections:
Sasol, SA National Gallery, Johannesburg At Gallery
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