Mahlangu, Speelman

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.

Mahlangu, Speelman

Born: 1958 Katlehong, Transvaal

A sculptor of figures. Works in clay, bronze and wood. A painter of figures and genre, working in oil, acrylic, ink, pencil, charcoal and mixed media.

Studies: 1977-80 Katlehong Art Centre, under Rose Shakanovsky

and Stanley Nkosi.

Profile: A member of the Katlehong Art Centre. 1977-81 a part time teacher, from 1986 a full time teacher at the Katlehong Art Centre. 1987

a graphic and sculpture teacher

at the Ezebeleni Cripple Care Centre, Tokoza, East Rand. A designer of tapestries woven at the Katlehong

Art Centre, also creates pots and makes relief murals in clay.

Exhibitions: He has participated in numerous group exhibitions from

1977 in SA, West Germany and Israel; 1985 Tributaries, touring SA and West Germany.

Represented: Frankfurt Ethnology Museum, West Germany;

University of Zululand

References: SA Panorama June 1985