Ntukwana, Hargreaves

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.

Ntukwana, Hargreaves

Born: 1938 Johannesburg

A painter and sculptor of figures and township life. Works in oil, gouache, ink, wash, pencil, charcoal, wood, plaster of Paris, clay and terracotta.

A Witch Doctor series, a rural life series and a factory series.

Studies: Polly Street Art Centre, Johannesburg under Cecil Skotnes; 1955-56 African School

of Art, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); 1960-62 privately under Cordelidos in Toledo, Spain; 1971-73

privately under Professor Mel Edwards, in New York.

Profile: Has lectured on SA art in New York and

in Switzerland. 1984 a workshop teacher at the University of Witwatersrand. 1979 designed clothes for “Black and White is Beautiful”, a modelling show in Germany. A photographer and jazz musician who participated in the musical “King Kong”. Designed the record sleeves for “Underground

in Africa” by Dollar Brand in 1980; “Did You Tell Your Mother” by the Cape Town Jazz Musicians

in 1982 and “Plum and Cherry” by Basil Manenberg Coetzee in 1984. 1984 designed a wine bottle label for a Swiss company bottling SA wine. Designs

for rugs made in Lesotho and for Christmas cards. 1971-3, 1981-2 and 1985 lived in the USA; 1973-4 travelled in Europe; 1977 in Switzerland; 1979 visited West Germany.

Exhibitions: He has participated in several group exhibitions in SA, Europe, the USA, Lesotho and Zimbabwe; 1967 Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg, first of over 15 solo exhibitions held in SA, France, Switzerland, West Germany, The Netherlands and the USA.

Represented: Rutgers State University, New Jersey, USA; University of California USA; University of Fort Hare; University of Witwatersrand.

Public Commission: 1986 mural for the Italian School, Johannesburg.

References: BSAK 1&2; AASA; Hit May 1983