Garth Erasmus

Garth Erasmus (born April 12, 1956, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting.[1]

Garth Erasmus
Born (1956-04-12) April 12, 1956
Eastern Cape, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Alma materRhodes University

Early life and education

He attended Paterson High School in Port Elizabeth and later attended a teachers training program at Hewat Training College in Cape Town. He later attended Rhodes University, and founded the community artists organization Vakalisa Arts Associates in the Cape.[2] He was a participant in the Thupelo Workshop program during the 1980s.[1]

Career

Erasmus' work is represented in several art collections, including the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Among other formats Erasmus is known for his Resistance Art protesting the apartheid regime in South Africa. Beginning as graffiti protest art his State of Emergency series depicts images of entrapment.[1] Writing in a review of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Arts 2002 exhibition "Encounters With the Contemporary," critic Mark D'Amato called Erasmus' painting The Muse 3 (1995) "a highlight."[3] Erasmus' work uses his archival research to approach his Khosian lineage, and drawing on figures from Khosian cosmology. Erasmus has "employed Afrikaans text to comment on the brutal Khosian history and its impact on present descendants, opening a window onto the way this history has been repressed."[4]

He has also provided illustrations for numerous books, including Nape 'a Motana's book of proverbs, published in 2004, as well as a volume of conversations with figures from Cape Town's District 6.[5]

Sources
  • 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, edited by Sophie Perryer, 2004, Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.
  • Adams, Keith, and Garth Erasmus. Memory Keepers. Betty's Bay [South Africa: Backbooks Publishers, 2012. Print.
  • Erasmus, Garth, Siemon Allen, and Julie L. McGee. Resoundings: Garth Erasmus & Siemon Allen. , 2015. Print.
  • Motana, Nape'a, and Garth Erasmus. Sepedi (northern Sotho) Proverbs. Cape Town: Kwela, 2004. Print.

References
  1. Williamson, Sue (1989). Resistance Art in South Africa. Claremont, South Africa: David Phillip, Publisher (Pty) Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 0-86486-124-9.
  2. "Bio at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art".
  3. D'Amato, Mark. "Review". JSTOR 3337900. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, edited by Sophie Perryer, 2004, Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.
  5. Memory keepers. Adams, Keith., Erasmus, Garth. (1st ed.). Betty's Bay [South Africa]: Backbooks Publishers. 2012. ISBN 9780620547161. OCLC 819390748.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)


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