Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained from Robyn Nesbitt, Artist Proof Studio Curator, The Bus Factory, 3 President Street, West Entrance, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Newtown/ PO Box 664, Newtown, 2113, Gauteng, Johannesburg.

David Koloane is a foundational figure in modern and contemporary South African art; as an activist and organiser during the Apartheid years; as co-founder with Robert Loder of the Bag Factory, a key Johannesburg arts centre, and as a powerful and versatile artist of cityscapes, townships scenes and jazz.

This recent work exemplifies his longstanding concern with the urban mobility of humanity, with the kinds of lives people have led and lead, in Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa.

Event Date 23/8/2014
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Lithograph by David Koloane titled 'Striding and Walking', dated 2011. Edition 6/20. Condition: Good
Event Date 23/8/2014
Author: maa