Hang On
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Oil on Canvas
Oil and Pencil on Canvas
W: 500mm x H: 600mm x D: 40mm
W: 20" x H: 24" x D: 2"
Approx. Weight: 1.7kg
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About "Hang On"
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today' - African proverb
During the time I worked on my Master's Degree, I travelled extensively through Africa in order to collect research material. I've always had a true love and respect for this mystical, wild continent. It deepened though my travels as I got to know the land, the culture, the people and animals. Later in life, as the growing threat on our Rhino population escalated, I grew more and more aware of this problem. As a result, I am deeply concerned about the destruction that is taking place. During 2014, in South Africa alone a staggering 1,215 rhinos were killed by poachers. That's one every eight hours.
Having two young children of my own I realised that their children will never have the privilege to experience these powerful creatures. Every person on earth has a responsibility as a human being not to allow this graphic cruelty in order to nurture a senseless belief. Man, woman and child. There is a saying, 'We haven't inherited the planet from our parents, we borrowed it from our children.'
My exhibition is titled 'One Life'. It portrays different aspects of life. Freedom and bondage, power and vulnerability, youth and old age are contrasts in my work. I try to reach the viewer through the ways these contrasts balance. Everyone is exposed to transience. The juxtaposition between transience and youth is a big inspiration
In 2016 I will be exhibiting in Lugano, Switzerland. I want to carry this message via my solo
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About Sua
My main focus during my studies was the female figure. Feminism and humanism, freedom and bondage, power and vulnerability, youth and old age are contrasts in my work. I try to reach the viewer through the way these contrasts balance. Everyone is exposed to transience. The juxtaposition between transience and youth is a big inspiration.
SHORT CV
Sua was born in 1969 in South Africa. She matriculated in 1986 from Three Rivers High School with a distinction in Fine Arts. She completed her Masters degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 1994. Sua found the fine art market unsustainable and sought employment within the advertising environment. In 1997 she founded her own design and advertising agency. It has only been since 2009 that Sua has re-entered the fine arts arena for the first time after 12 years. Whilst woman and art have remained a central theme in Sua's work, the interaction between man and animal is now a visible theme.
Sua Van Der Westhuizen obtained a BA Fine Art (Sculpture), at the University of Pretoria in 1990 and a MA Fine Arts (Sculpture), at the University of Pretoria in 1994.
AWARDS
1988 Winner of the Portland Cement Young Artist Award
1989 Winner of the Portland Cement Young Artist Award
1989 Merit Award in the New Signatures Art Competition
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Portland Cement Company
Kempton Park Town Council
Doxa Deo Collection
SANLAM
Price Range
US$ 294-607
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Exhibitions
2013
- Group exhibition at SOTA, Cape Town
- Group exhibition at Grande Provence, Franschoek
- Group exhibition at Dorpstraat Gallery, Stellenbosch
- Group exhibition at Aardklop National Arts Festival
- Alice in Wonderland travelling exhibition - Trent Gallery
- Art Fair – Fried Contemporary
- ‘Horing’ exhibition, Franschoek Literary Festival
- 4D Art Gallery, Pretoria
- Tina Skukhan Gallery, Pretoria
2012
- Group exhibition at 4D gallery, Pretoria
- Group exhibition (Angels) Grande Provence, Franschoek
2011
- Group exhibition at 4D gallery, Pretoria
- Group exhibition (Angels) Grande Provence, Franschoek
2009
- Two Man Show - "You and Me" at Platform on 18th Gallery - Pretoria
- Two Man Show - Sugerbush 56 Gallery - Vereeniging
- Group Exhibition - Nanda Barnard Gallery - Sasolburg
- Group Exhibition - London Affordable Art Fair, UK
- Solo Exhibition - MendesBenade Gallery - St Albans, UK
- Group Exhibition - Lighthouse Gallery - Penzance, Cornville, United Kingdom
1995
- Groundswell Contemporary South African Art Exhibition,The Mermaid Theatre Gallery, London
- Group Exhibition at Mackie Street Gallery, Pretoria
- Solo Exhibition at the Parktown Gallery, Johannesburg
- Group Exhibition - Gerhardt Moerdyk Gallery, Pretoria
1994
- Group Exhibition at the Pretoria Art Association
- Group Exhibition - Vereeniging Gallery
- Solo Exhibition at the Longstreet Gallery - Cape Town
- Portland Cement Exhibition - Arts Association, Pretoria
- Group Exhibition - Verwoerdburg Art Gallery, Verwoerdburg
- Group Exhibition - Kempton Park Art Gallery, Kempton Park
- Solo Exhibition - Vereeniging
- Group Exhibition - Terre Verte Gallery, Pretoria
1993
- Group Exhibition - Sasolburg Gallery
- Group Exhibition - Gallery 88 Pretoria
- Solo Masters Exhibition – Nico Roos Gallery
- Group Exhibition - Kempton Park Art Gallery, Kempton Park
- Group Exhibition - Folwaczny Gallery, Pretoria
- Group Exhibition - Vereeniging
- Group Exhibition – Nanda Barnard Gallery, Sasolburg
- Solo Exhibition - Studio 161, Pretoria
- Group Exhibition - The Artist Co-operative, Midrand
1992
- Group exhibition - Pretoria Art Foundation
- Group Exhibition - Thames Gallery, Vereeniging
- Momentum Art Exhibition - Pretoria
- Volkskas Atelier - Johannesburg
- New Signatures - Pretoria
- Group Exhibition - University of Pretoria
- Group Exhibition (Artists of Pretoria), Pretoria Art Museum
- Masters Group Exhibition, Northern Transvaal Arts Association
- Group Exhibition - National Sculpture Conference, Durban
- Group Exhibition - Technorama, Vereeniging
- Three Man Exhibition, Johannesburg
- Group Exhibition - Studio 22, Pretoria
1991
- Group exhibition - Gallery 88, Pretoria
- Solo exhibition - Thames Gallery, Vereeniging
- Escom's Sculptures in the Park Exhibition
- Group exhibition - Pretoria Art Museum
- Three Man Exhibition - Pretoria
- Group Exhibition -Vereeniging
1990
- Solo exhibition - Gallery 88, Pretoria
- Solo exhibition - University of Pretoria
- Three Man Exhibition - Thames Gallery, Vereeniging
- Group exhibition - Nanda Barnard Gallery, Sasolburg
- New Signatures, Pretoria
1989
- Winner of the PPC sculpture exhibition
- Created a 5 meter high sculpture for the PPC sculpture gardens
- Solo exhibition - Three Rivers Gallery
- Group exhibition - University of Pretoria.
- Rolfes Impressions - Pretoria
- Group Exhibition - Portland Cement Company, Midrand
Education
MA (Fine Arts) Pret
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