Desmond, Nerine

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.

Desmond, Nerine

Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908, Died 1993

She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely self-taught.

The commemoration of the Great Trek occurred in 1938, and she explored Voortrekker themes at this time, more concerned with themes of hardship and suffering than expressing any nationalist sentiments. Rosa Hope also did the same. Both artists entered works on this theme on the Eighth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the SANG in 1938-1939.

Evening Prayers is representative of this theme in Desmond's work. Her association with SASA was not consistent, as she often exhibited independently. Pagel's Circus, which is undated, is most likely from the 1940s, when this circus, owned by William Pagel, was a familiar sight in SA. In 1949 she painted extensively in Namibia and in 1954 did the same along the east coast of Africa. Although also a member of the New Group, she seems to have actively exhibited on SASA exhibitions in the early 1940s, despite their rivalry.

Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitor on SASA-related exhibitions c.1898 - 1950: 1936: SASA sect., with NA & jndep. artists, 6th Annual Exh. of Contemp. Art, SANG, 17 Dec - 17 Feb. 1937. 1938: SASA sect., with NA, 8th Annual Exh. of Contemp. Art, SANG, 15 Dec - 15 Feb.1939.

1940: SASA 37th Annual Exh., AG, Burg St., 29 Jan - 10 Feb. 1941: SASA 38th Annual Exh., SANG, 17 Feb.-31 Mar. 1942: SASA 39th Annual Exh., SANG, 23 Feb. - 18 Apr.

1942: SASA Winter Exh. (venue not stated) 14 - 29 Aug. 1943: SASA 40th Annual Exh., (in comb. with NSA) SANG, 1 Feb. 1944: 41st Annual Exh. of SA Contemp. Art, org. by SASA with other Societies, SANG, 25 Feb.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/nerine-constantia-desmond-fial

African Woman with Deer

Oil on Panel Signed 28 cm x 36 cm