SEKOTO: The Art of Gerard Sekoto

SEKOTO: The Art of Gerard SekotoThe tradition of black artists in South Africa has, until recently, been neglect ed. However, in the last ten years a new art history has developed from a growing awareness of the omissions of the past. At the forefront of this reassessment is the work of Gerard Sekoto. Born at a Lutheran Mission Station in the Transvaal, Sekoto started drawing early but did not have access to colour pencils until he was a teenager; the introduction to colour

we wanted to explore the possible futures of objects marked by colonial relations of power and knowledge(s)

the project responds to the disruptions that challenge young people’s emotional and spiritual growth

David Turnley

while others were sourced from books in university libraries or other archives

Alexis Schofield

transforming ordinary and everyday scenes and situations into something quite extraordinary

is evidence that we must begin at once to reverse the complex origins of our apathy

She is an excellent team player and extremely proactive in our classes

he photographed more than 125 covers

Mining the imagery of modernist abstraction

for more than sixty years

China and Romania