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(Bio) 'Kim Berman is the Executive Director of the Artist Proof Studio in Newtown, JHB, and a Senior Lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Johannesburg. She received her BFA degree from Wits University in 1981 and her MFA in printmaking from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Mass., USA, in 1989. In 1991, together with Nhlanhla Xaba, she founded the Artist Proof Studio, a community printmaking centre which provides training and studio facilities to emerging artists. In 2000, Kim initiated Phumani Paper, a national poverty relief project which includes a significant research and training component based at the University of Johannesburg. She has lectured widely in South Africa, Europe and the United States, and is represented in South Africa by the Goodman Gallery, where she has held a number of successful solo exhibitions. Kim was a finalist in the Sasol Wax Art Award competition in 2007.
Kim is a hugely energetic person who is deeply committed to political and social transformation in South Africa. She uses printmaking as a vehicle to reflect on the social and political processes that surround her. She has an uncanny ability to take a neglected, peripheral landscape and to transform it into an image that not only comments on society but is also transformed into something beautiful and poignant. She has long been concerned with fire and its ability to destroy and create. Kim says “Art provides us with a tool for participation in life. The challenges we face as South Africans today make us acutely aware of the broader role artists have as catalysts for change”.' [From http://artistproofstudio.co.za/home/index.php/kim-berman, accessed 27/8/2014].
Event Date 27/8/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

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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.

Part of the Portfolio 'Volatile Alliances', 1995 with 23 prints (2014.258 - 2014.280), edition 50/65 (though this is the only print with a different edition number, 63/65). Participating artists included Paul Molete, Gordon Gabashane, Nhlanhla Xaba, Joe Ndlovu, Simon Mthimkhulu, Ezekiel Budeli, Pepe Jose Abela, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi, Philippa Hobbs, Dominic Tshabangu, Giulio Tambellini, Moleleki Frank Ledimo, Lothar Riedel, Mbongeni Richman Buthelezi, Velaphi Mzimba, Elvin Sefati Nethononda, Sokhaya Charles Nkosi, Vincent Baloyi, Simon Sejake, Durant Sihlali, Diane Victor, Muzi Donga and Kim Berman.
Event Date 27/8/2014
Author: maa

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Etching by Kim Berman titled 'The Madibogo Prayer', 1995. Edition: 50/65. Inscribed, signed and dated: '50/65 The Madibogo Prayer Kim Berman 95'. Condition: Good. Printed skewed on paper. Marks along the right edge of paper. Part of the Volatile Alliances 1995 portfolio, edition 50/65.
Event Date 27/8/2014
Author: maa