Tyrone Appollis |
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b.
Cape Town, 1957 |
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Gallery
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Curriculum Vitae
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Art Education
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1978-1987: Mostly self-taught, part-time student at Community Arts Project.
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Residencies
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2004: Pro Helvetia Residency, Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland.
1989: Toured Europe on British Council grant.
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Exhibitions (solo)
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2010: The Framery Gallery, Sea Point, Cape Town.
2006: Yesterday and Today, Sanlan Art Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.
1997: AVA, Cape Town.
1993: Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg.
1992: Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town.
1988: South African Association of Art, Cape Town.
1982: Rocklands Library, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.
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| Exhibitions (group) |
2010: 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. International Museum Day, George Museum, George, South Africa.
2009: Precedents and Currents, Mayibuye Centre, UWC, Bellville, Cape Town. Decade, Sanlam Art Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.
2007: africa south, AVA, Cape Town.
2006: Self portraits, Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town. Botaki 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Pinelands, Cape Town. Boland Kelder (with Garth Erasmus and Sophie Peters), Paarl.
2005: Botaki 2, OMAM; Botaki 3, OMAM, Cape Town.
2004: Arty milk cans, AVA, Cape Town.
2000: Itheko lokuza nethemba elitsha (A Celebration for Bringing New Hope), Bell-Roberts Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: Post Cards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York.
1996: Cognizance, Ingqwalasela, Herkening., AVA, Cape Town.
1993: Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris.
1991: Cape Town Triennial, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1990: Freedom Now, Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek, Namibia.
1989: Rahmen Gallerie, Langei, Germany.
1988: Artists against Apartheid, Luxurama Theatre, Wynberg, Cape Town.
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| Performances (poetry reading and music) |
2010: Geroeste Musiek, Tyrone in Concert, Artscape, Cape Town.
2009: Cape Town Book Fair (reading to children his new story The Silver Saxophone and The Magic Paintbrush), CTICC, Cape Town. Tyrone's Geroeste Musiek, Voorkamer Fesival, Darling, Cape Town.
2008: Cape Town Book Fair, book launch, Train to Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. Poetry Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
2007: Joe Schaffers and fellow musicians (with Tyrone Appollis and Boeta Katjie), District Six Museum, Cape Town.
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Collections
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Public collections: Iziko South African National Gallery, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape; Western Cape Provincial Government; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; South Africa House, London; Department of Education, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital; Constitutional Court of South Africa; SASOL and SANLAM. National Gallery of Namibia; University of Kansas (USA), Norton Museum, Florida, (USA).
Private collections: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Judge Albie Sachs, former Nelson Mandela and former President Thabo Mbeki.
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Commissions
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2006: Woolworths bags, Cape Town.
2004: Mural painting, Bridgeville Primary School, Cape Town.
2000: Trojan Horse Memorial, Athlone, Cape Town.
1998: J&B Metropolitan Horse Race poster.
1997: City of Cape Town (painting for Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Freedom of the City).
1996: SA Gourmet Festival poster.
1994: Large mural painting, University of Western Cape.
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Publications (books, magazines, newspapers, videos and catalogues)
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2010: Friends pitch in for jazz maestro cancer care. Daily News, July 9.
2009: Cultural vagabond has his own flair. Cape Times, August 27. Appollis, A. The Silver Saxophone. Cape Town: Cambridge University Press. Appollis & Maclay-Mayers The Magic Paintbrush. Cape Town: Cambridge University Press. Hundt, S. (ed.) Decade. Bellville: Sanlam Life Insurance Ltd (exhibition catalogue).
2008: Appollis, T. Train to Mitchells Plain. Cape Town: Tyrone Appollis. Appollis art exhibition. Cape Times, September 9.
2006: Hundt, S. (ed.) Tyrone Appollis-Today and yesterday. Bellville: Sanlam Life Insurance Ltd. Appollis presents a study of contradictions. Cape Argus, September 1. Pissarra, M. Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversation with Tyrone Appollis (exhibition catalogue).
2005: Blum, C. Kapkunst/Cape Art: 12 Portraits of South African Artists. Hamburg: Murmann. Pissarra, M. Botaki: Exhibition 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters. Cape Town: Old Mutual Asset Managers.
2004: Darrol, M. et. al. Art for Aids Orphans Auction. Cape Town: Paperback. Pissarra, M. Botaki: Conversations with South African artists. Cape Town: OMAM. The rights of a child. Cape Town: Kwela Books and Rotterdam: Lemniscaat.
2003: McGee and Voyiya The Luggage is Still Labelled: Blackness in South african Art (dvd).
1993: Martin, M. et. al. Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape. Cape Town: South African National Gallery.
1991: Till, C. et. al. Cape Town Triennial. Cape Town: Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation. Tribute Magazine. Sitas, A. William Zungu-Xmas Story. Cape Town: Buchu Books.
1988: Ogilvie, G. The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors. Johannesburg: Everard Read. Oliphant, A. Ten Years of Staffrider. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. Rive, R. Emergency. Claremont: David Philip Publishers.
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Current
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Full-time artist since 1986. Lives in Athlone.
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| Links |
Profile on Cape Gallery website
Profile on Hout Bay Gallery website
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