Sophie Peters |
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b.
Johannesburg, 1968 |
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Gallery
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Curriculum Vitae
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Art Education
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1994: Advanced Teacher Training, Community Arts Project, Woodstock, Cape Town.
1988: Ceramics with Barbara Jackson, Cape Town.
1986-1987: Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
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Workshops & Residencies
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2006: Community Art Workshop, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
2000: Print 2000, Maastricht, Netherlands.
1997: Printmaking Project, Robben Island, Cape Town.
1990: Zabalaza Festival, London.
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| Solo Exhibitions |
2007: Hand To Plough Landscapes, The Framery Gallery, Cape Town.
1994: Cry from the Heart, Belville Association of Arts, Cape Town.
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Group Exhibitions
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2008: Provoke, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town. Some South African Voices, Rose Korber Art Consultancy, Camps Bay, Cape Town. SA Art Times, November.
2005: Botaki: Exhibition 2, Old Mutual Asset Managers. Botaki Exhibition 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Her Story, AVA, Cape Town. Renaissance, Cape Gallery, Cape Town. A Decade of Democracy, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2003: Dreams of Our Daughters, Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn.
2001: The Hourglass Project: A Women's Vision, Art on Paper, Melville, Johannesburg; UNISA Gallery, Pretoria. Homecoming, Guga S'Thebe, Langa, Cape Town.
2000: How the Land Lies, Chelsea Gallery (with Lyn Smuts and Lien Botha), Wynberg, Cape Town. Greatmore Studios Official Opening, Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town.
1999: Print Exchange 1998-1999: Portfolio for Playing Cards, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; Gencor Gallery, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg. Ten Years of Printmaking, Hard Ground Printmakers, Sanlam Art Gallery, Bellville.
1998: Siwela Ngaphesheya, Crossing the water,
Robben
Island
Museum. Ekhaya, travelling exhibition, Western Cape. Dis Nag- The Cape's Hidden Roots in Slavery, Iziko South African Cultural
History
Museum, Cape Town. Recent Publications, Hard Ground Printmakers, Grahamstown Festival, Grahamstown.
1997: Recent Publications, Hard Ground Printmakers, AVA. Body Politic (with Judy Woodborne, Alma Vortster and Fritha Langerman), AVA.
1996: Human Rights, South African Cultural History Museum, Cape Town. Barricaded Rainbow, Centre for African Studies, UCT, Cape Town. Artists Against Apartheid, Parliament, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994: Creating Image, Castle of Good Hope,
Cape Town.
1993: South Africa in Black and White, ISANG. Picturing Our World, Grahamstown Festival. Grahamstown; ISANG, Cape Town. Women on Women, Seef Trust Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1992: Looking Back, Community Arts Project, Woodstock, Cape Town. Visual Arts Group Travelling Exhibition, Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Uluntu centre, Gugulethu; Mannenberg Peoples Centre; Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. Tapestry Wall, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
1991: Visual Arts Group Travelling Exhibition, Cape Town. Transition, Baxter Theatre Gallery, Cape Town. Art in the Avenue, Cape Town.
1989: Nude, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town. Serendipity, Gallery, Cape Town.
1987: Invited Artists, Johannesburg Art Foundation. Volkskas Atelier Exhibition, Cape Town.
1986: The Eye of an Artist, Gugulethu. Young Blood, SAAA,
Cape Town.
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| Group Exhibitions (international) |
2008: Mapping Cultural Echoes-Voyage Ensemble, Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA), Harare, Zimbabwe.
2001: Canada.
2000: Germany. Iceland.
1998: Artist for Africa, Sweden. Sicula Sizhentsha Xa Sisonke - The South Africa Aesthetic, travelling exhibition, USA.
1997: Sicula Sixhentsa Xa Sisonke - The South Africa Aesthetic, travelling exhibition, Mississippi, Detroit, New York, USA.
1995: Peace for Africa, Geneva, Switzerland.
1994: [Travelling exhibition] Brooklyn, NYC & Massachussets, USA.
1994: Relief in Black and White, Brighton Festival, UK.
1990: Zabalaza Festival, Institute for Contemporary Art,
London.
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| Collections |
Public collection: Iziko South African National Gallery; Durban Art Gallery; Constitutional Court of South Africa; Western Cape Provincial Government; Mayibuye Centre, UWC.
Private collection: South Africa, Europe, USA and Australia.
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| Commissions (mural painting and book illustrations) |
2007: Safmarine (4 paintings), Cape Town.
2005-2004: Pentecostal Rapha Mission (mural painting).
2004: Cape Span. Protea Hotel, Sea Point, Cape Town.
1998: Puleng and the Pumpkin, children's book (book illustration). Hair, children's book (book illustration). Truworths' Millenium Calendar (two linoprints).
1997: True Love at Last-Ginwala Dowling. No More Stars in my Roof-Ginwala Dowling (book illustration). The Original Natural Living Diary (illustration).
1996: Robben Island Museum, Cape Town. District Museum, Cape Town. Department of Health, Cape Town. Mural painting, Mayibuye Centre, University of Western Cape. The Black Sash Trust Annual Report (Book cover illustration). Day by Day-English Pupils' Book 5 M. Niller Longman (Illustration).
1993-1994: Mural painting (with Tshidi Sefako and Xolile Mtakatya), Nico Malan Opera House.
1991: Transitions, mural project (with members of Hard-Ground Printmakers Workshop), Baxter Gallery.
1990: 4 mural paintings with other artists, Zabalaza Festival, London.
1989: Mural painting with other artists, Community House, Salt River, Cape Town.
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| Publications (books, magazines and catalogues) |
2008: SA Art Times, issue 11 vol. 3, November.
2006: Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 4, Conversations with Tyrone Appollis, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue).
2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 3, Conversations with Donovan Ward, OMAM, Cape Town. Marion Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 2, Conversations with Sophie Peters, OMAM, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue).
2004: Sophie Perryer (ed.), 10 years 100 artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town. Renaissance Printmakers Exhibition, Cape Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Die Burger, October 1, p7.
1999: R Christian, The Hourglass Project-A Women's Vision, Fulton Country Arts Council, Atlanta, USA (exhibition catalogue).
1998: Marie Caire Magazine. Stern Magazine (Germany).
1997: Emma Bedford (ed.), A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, Double Storey Books, Cape Town. E Rankin & P Hobbs, Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa, David Phillip Publishers, Cape Town. "Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995", Third Text, vol 11 issue 39, pp 95-103.
1994: Sarie Magazine.
1993: Femina Magazine.
1992: A Oliphant (ed.), Culture and Empowerment: Debates, Workshops, Art and Photography from Zabalaza Festival, Staffrider, vol 10 no 3, Cosaw Publishing, Johannesburg.
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| Awards |
Numerous awards for book illustrations. |
| Other |
Has taught art to children since 1987 (including for Sakhile Childrens Art Project, Community Arts Project and the Visual Arts Group. |
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