Meerkotter, Dirk

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.

Meerkotter, Dirk

Born: 1922 Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal

A painter and graphic artist of semi-abstract

and abstract pictures. Works in oil, acrylic, watercolour , ink and in various graphic media. A ceramicist.

Studies: 1944 Witwatersrand Technical College under Maurice van Essche.

Profile: c.1948-58 a committee member of the Transvaal Art Society; from 1958 a member

of the SAAA. 1959-62 an art critic for Die Vaderland; 1963-66 an art critic for Die Transvaler. A number of designs for stained glass windows for churches. From 1962

he has run his own pottery studio in Johannesburg. From 1973 several of his works have been reproduced in calendars. An organist and pianist. Study visits in 1982 to the USA; 1958, 11968, 1972 and 1978 to Europe; 1984-85 worked at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Exhibitions: He has participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1949 in SA, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, Peru, Australia, the USA, West Germany and Zimbabwe; 1950 Constantia Art Gallery, Johannesburg, first of over 12 solo exhibitions; 1956 and 1960 Quadrennial Exhibitions; 1978 Rand Afrikaans University, solo exhibition; 1981 Republic Festival Exhibition.

Represented: Ann Bryant Gallery, East London; Durban Art Gallery; Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet; Johannesburg

Art Gallery; Pietersburg Collection; Potchefstroom Museum; Potchefstroom University for CHE; Pretoria Art Museum; Rand Afrikaans University; SA National Gallery, Cape Town; University of Durban-Westville; University of Natal; University

of Orange Free State; University of Pretoria; University of Witwatersrand; Willem Annandale Art Gallery, Lichtenburg; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.

Public Commissions: Large ceramic murals; 1969 Potchefstroom University for CHE;

1980 the State Theatre, Pretoria;

1981 Library, Goudstad College

of Education, Johannesburg;

1982 Municipal Offices, Phalaborwa, Eastern Transvaal;

1985 the Sand du Plessis Theatre, Bloemfontein.

References: Art SA; SAA; 20C SA Art; BSAK 1&2; Our Art 3; 3Cs; AASA; LSAA; Artlook February 1967, April 1967, August 1968 & October 1970; SA Panorama October 1968; Lantern December 1973