Baker, Kenneth

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.

Baker, Kenneth

Born: 1926 Cape Town
Died: 1988 Cape Town

A painter of abstracted landscapes and seascapes. Worked in oil, acrylic, pencil

and charcoal, made relief constructions with gesso, steel, Perspex and plastic. 1968-71 a series of Geonich/Geo structures; 1972-80 a series of constructions; 1981-84 a seriesof relief paintings with constructions; 1985-86 a series of reliefs with semi-precious stones.

Studies: Continental School of Art, Cape Town,under George de Leon; 1953-55 at the Contemporary School of Art, Cape Town, under Erik Laubscher (qv).

Profile: 1954-64 a member of the SAAA. Until 1955 lived in Cape Town, then moved to Simonstown. Married to Bernadine Biden (qv).

Exhibitions: Participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1954 in SA and at the Venice

and Sao Paulo Biennials; from 1955 held six joint exhibitions with Bernadine Biden (qv); 1960 and 1964 Quadrennial Exhibitions; 1968 Silberburg Gallery, Cape Town, first solo exhibition.
Award: 1963 Medal – Mention of Honour,

Sao Paulo Bienale.
Represented: Ann Bryant Gallery, East London; Hester Rupert Art Museum,

Graaff-Reinet; Pretoria Art Museum; SA National Gallery, Cape Town; University

of the Witwatersrand; William Humphreys

Art Gallery, Cape Town; University of the Witwatersrand; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.
References: Art SA; SAA; 20C SA Art; SSAP; BSAK 2; SA Art; Oxford Companion to 20C Art (under SA); 3Cs; AASA; LSAA; SA Panorama January 1969; Lantern June 1970; Artlook November 1970 & August/September 1975.

Article credits to:

The Dictionary of South African Painters

and Sculptors by Grania Ogilvie