Appollis, Tyrone

Bobbie Burgers is a contemporary Canadian painter. Her lush and Expressionistic depictions of flowers teeter on the verge of abstraction, bursting with bright color and laden with thickly applied, textural paint. “Flowers, to me, are the opposite of still,” the artist has explained. “Changing from minute to minute, they are perfect symbols for life, death, yearning, and beauty. My brushstrokes are layered with my own internal charges, depicting anger, frustration, softness, wanting, and more.” Born in 1973 in Vancouver, Canada, she studied Art History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad, notably including Art Market San Francisco and Equinox Gallery. Today, her works are in the collections of the Berost Corporation in Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada, among others. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Appollis, Tyrone

Tyrone Appollis started his art career as a painter and began sculpting in wood seriously from 1990. Currently he views himself as being a sculptor, painter, print-maker, poet and street musician. He considers political and social reconciliation to be a function of art – art

as cross-cultural dialogue.
Training
1982-1987, CAP (part-time classes under Cecil Skotnes.
Tyrone works in Mitchells Plain, Western Cape. He was active in the formation of the Mitchells Plain Art Group in 1988. Appollis traveled to England in 1989 on a British Council visitation for two weeks.
Exhibitions
Appollis has participated in numerous solo

and group exhibitions in multi-media. These exhibitions have taken place all over South Africa as well as outside of its borders.
1982
Solo exhibition, Rocklands Library, Mitchells Plain, Cape.

1988/ Solo exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Cape TownLuxurama Theatre, Wynberg, Cape (Artists Against Apartheid)University of the Western Cape, mural./ 1989 Solo exhibition, British Council Offices, JohannesburgRahmen Galerie, Langei, Germany. (Peter Clarke and Ishmael Thyssen) / 1990 Solo exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Worcester, Cape.The Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek. (Namibian Independence Exhibition)/ 1991South African Triennial/ 1992Solo Exhibition, Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape/ 1993Solo Exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, JohannesburgSalon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France1994/ Large mural for the University of the Western Cape 1996/

Commissioned to do South African Gourmet Festival Poster 1997/ Solo exhibition South African Association of Arts, Cape Town Commissioned by the City to do “Freedom of the City” painting of Bishop Tutu./ 1998 Athens Group show.J & B Met poster (biggest horse race in South Africa)

Group show celebrating Steve Biko in District Six/ 1999 Spent year teaching and motivating disadvantaged children music and painting./ Book jacket cover for James Matthews:

“The Party is Over”2000/

Built a monument for the “Trojan Horse” commemorating the death of children killed

in apartheid era.
Group show of selected artists from “Postcards in South Africa” in New York Gallery.
Artwork on CD cover of musician Errol Byers
Collections

South African National Gallery; University

of the Western Cape; Department of National Education, Cape; University of Kansas, USA; Sasol Oil Company, South Africa; South African Fine Worsteds, Cape Town; Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town; Michaelis School of Art (University of Cape Town); National Gallery of Namibia; Durban Art Museum, South Africa; Florida Museum, USA.
Works Appearing on Book Jackets

“Contrast” Magazine – 1985/1986
“Emergency” by Richard Rive
“Ten Years of Staffrider”, 1988
“A Walk in the Night” and “Stone Country”,

by Alex la Guma;
“The Struggle for District Six” – Hands Off District Six Committee
“William Zungu” by Ari Sitas
Bibliography

Tribute, October, 1991
Ogilvie Graine – Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors
ADA No.6, 1989 – Arts Magazine.

(This article is reprinted in Friends of SA National Gallery Newsletters, 1988.)