Sue Hoppe - "Be My Shelter"

Be My Shelter
Mixed Media, US$ 167
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Be My Shelter

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Details

Mixed Media

W: 700mm x H: 950mm x D: 44mm
W: 28" x H: 37" x D: 2"

Approx. Weight: 4kg

This work is unframed

Price

US$ 167 SOLD

Scale

About "Be My Shelter"

Baobabs are very special trees and I have painted them often over the years. They are so quintessentially African. They represent happy memories for me because I grew up in Harare, as landlocked as you can get, but whichever direction we travelled in for holidays, whether to Mozambique or South Africa for beach holidays, or to any of the lovely spots we frequented along the Zambezi, from Victoria Falls to Kariba or Mana Pools, we always had to go through a lowveld area dotted with these comical amazing trees. There is a wonderful one on the road to Beit Bridge from Harare, which is hollowed out, and has a cathedral like feeling when standing inside it. As in my ongoing Africa weeps for her Children series, the concern for nurture needed by children is also present.

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About Sue

I love expressing my reaction to what I see around me in bold loose brushstrokes and vibrant colours, sometimes abstract, sometimes not! My themes and the way I express them vary widely. I used to work mainly in oils, but also use photography and collage to express ideas. The latest series of work uses encaustic and cyanotype. The melted wax brings a wonderful dimension of transparency and texture to the work.

Price Range

US$ 56-1,081

Exhibitions

Ceramics: between 1985 and 1990, many group exhibions at regional and National level with APSA.
Ceramics: October 1990 Solo at Eastern Cape Society of Fine Arts
Photography: 1999 solo at Creative Designs Gallery, Port Elizabeth
Painting: 2002-now many Group Exhibitions (both open and ajudicated) at Blyth Fine Art, Cuyler Street, artEC/EPSAC, the Athenaeum Nelson Mandela Bay, Rick Bekker, Montage, Kuhne Boekkooi and Lipschitz Gallery in Plettenberg Bay, Leisure Isle Gallery in Knysna and VOA in Cape Town.
May 2006 Solo at Kuhne Boekkooi Gallery, PE
June 2007 Solo at Kuhne Boekkooi Gallery, PE
October 2007 Solo at Anne Bryant Art Gallery, East London
Feb 2008 Historic Port Elizabeth at EPSAC, PE
March 2008 War and Peace at Cuyler Street Gallery, PE
Nov 2009 4 Women at EPSAC, PE with Esme Goosen, Rina Badenhorst and Roma Cloete.
International painting Exhibition 2010 at Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.
June/July 2012: Alone:together with Jimmy Ndlovu and Ayanda Mji at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown
March 2013: on the (t)horns of a dilemma, Protecting what we value at artEC with Dorelle Sapere.
June/July 2013: Alone:together Again with Jimmy Ndlovu, Litha Ncokazi and Ayanda Mji at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
June/July 2014: Don't Fence me in at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
June/July 2015: Locking Horns with Earth and Sky with Donve Branch and Stephanie Liebetrau at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
June/July 2016: UnLocking Horns with Donve Branch and Stephanie Liebetrau at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
June/July 2017: UnLocking Horns with Donve Branch and Stephanie Liebetrau at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
2019/2020 Prince Albert Open Studios
2021 solo ot Old Nick, Plett Arts Festival
Featured in book "Art and Artists of the Eastern Cape" published by MBDA, 2011
Work in many private and corporate collections both in SA and overseas, including the World Bank and William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley.

Education

Geology, Maths, chemistry, also diploma in ceramic science

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