; ARTIST STATEMENT ;medium, processes and techniques ;Annette always explores new ways of expressing herself - as a preschool child she began her art journey by building installations on the river banks - imagining herself flying forth and exploring the universe. She has used paints, newspapers, magazines, glass, stones, fiber, computer art, ect ; ;producing the artworks ;Colours, objects, observations, visions, impressions - form the background to each work. Deep thought processes increase from the point of production. The work progresses spontaneously and poetic insights, sounds flow forth from an invisible source. She is always amazed by revelations through the artworks and she believes God speaks to people especially through artists. During the process of each artwork, movements, patterns, balances, sounds circle boundlessly at 360degrees within her soul. ; ;reason why specific artworks are produced ;Through her artworks Annette aspires to reach out to people, letting them pause to grasp the awesome splendour of creation, the existance of all (material and beyond)to mentally forsee beyond the small and shortspanned life on earth and to be passionately connected to God, the Creator of all. She desires to serve others through her art as she realises that she is blessed to be be talented and did not earn her skills and insights in any manner. ; ; ;; ;ART CURRICULUM VITAE ; ;Name: Annette du Plessis ;Cell ;27835652967 ; ;E-mail ;; ;URL ;; ;Education ;PE technikon, South Africa, 1986 ;Foundation Study in Fine Arts, first year, did not complete degree ; ;Awards & Achiements ;King George Art Gallery, South Africa, 1994 - 1995 ;'people,places & perspectives' ;work selected to go on national tour mayor South African Government galleries ; ;Pendula Women's Art Exhibition, 1995 ;Organised a woman's art exhibition for Port Elizabeth City ; ;Dakawa, Grahamstown, South Africa,1998 ;Selected as one of 17 Eastern Cape Artists to exhibit at a historical exhibition ; ;Eastern Cape Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa, 1998 ;Certificate of Excellency ; ;FNB Vita Awards, South Africa, 1998 ;Merit Award ; ;Konst Epidemic Artist Residency, Sweden, 2001 ;Won residency award during 2001 after Annette's artwork was selected as a winner in the City to City - Face to Face Exhibition, Goteborg, Sweden - under the banner of the partnership between Port Elizabeth City and Goteborg City ; ;Siyaya Centre for Young Arts, South Africa, 2001-current ;Founded and running a community art centre in an African township, New Brighton, Nelson Mandela Bay. ;; ;Arts and Culture Community Participation ;Imvaba Arts and culture Anti-apartheid organisation, South Africa, 1998-1991 ;Activist participating with other artist activists against apartheid, doing collective murals (at Mayibuye museum, Cape Town), logo's, posters, banners, etc. ; ;Port Elizabeth Action Committee, South Africa, 1989-1990 ;'Give Conscripts a choice' Creative banner - embroidered and collaged - against forced apartheid conscription for all white male South African Citizens ; ;Ex Detainees Committee, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1990 ;Creative art banner, collaged and embroidered - welcoming the Release of the ?Rivonia? prisoners from Robben Island (before the release of Nelson Mandela) ; ;Port Elizabeth Woman's Organisation, 1989 ;Creative Banner against apartheid ; ;PEPCO, 1989 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;NIR - Koinonia, 1990 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;Women's Decade, 1989 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;SANSCO, 1989 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;Uitenhage Civic Organisation, 1990 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;NADEL, 1990 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;COSAS, 1989/1990 ;Creative banner against apartheid ; ;ANC, 1991-1996 ;Creative banner for first welcoming rally for Nelson Mandela ;Several creative banners for various ANC branches within Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage ; ;SACP, 1991 ;Creative banner ; ;IDASA, 1990 ;Creative banner for 'One City, one municipality' ; ;ANC Women's League, 1991 ;Creative banner ; ;NESG, 1990/1991 ;Logo for welcoming t-shirts for the returning exiles ; ;National Health Department, 1995 ;'Aids the new struggle' With 4 other artists, painted a mural on Brister House, Nelson Mandela Bay. ;; ;Port Elizabeth Tourism, 1989 ;'Pambile ne African Renaisance, Pambile' Commissioned with 2 other artists to do a mural on the historical Grand Hotel in Nelson Mandela Bay ;;; ; ;Arts and Culture Organisational Commitments ;ANC Cultural Desk - Western Districts, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1996 ;Head cultural Desk ; ;Port Elizabeth Civic Society Forum, 1996 ;Representative City's visual artists ; ;Port Elizabeth Arts and Culture Council, 1997 ;Chairperson Visual arts sector ; ;Exhibitions ;Local: Nelson Mandela Bay Highbury Art Gallery ~ 1993-1994 Wezandla ~ 1994-1995 King George Art Gallery ~ 1994-1998 People, Places, Perspectives GAP EPSAFC Imvaba Exhibition ~ 1993 Ichthyology Department Dakawa ~ 1004, 1997, 1998 People, Places, Perspectives ~ 1994 ;Eastern Cape Department Arts and Culture selected artworks ~ 1997 ;Selected Eastern Cape artists - 'land history and self' ~ 1998 Pendula Women?s Art Exhibition ~ 1995 Human Rights Exhibition UPE & Dower College ~ 1997-1998 Eastern Cape Department of Arts and Culture Selection Exhibition (Wezandla, Green Acres, King George) ~ 1997-1998 The Rebirth of Art Centenary, UPE ~ 1997-1998 Women?s Art Exhibition King Edward Hotel ~ 1999 Partnership Port Elizabeth & G?teborg Face to Face Exhibition ~ 2000 in G?teborg Dammetjies Business Consultants Local artist exhibition ~ 2005
;Provincial: Eastern Cape, South Africa Imvaba Exhibition Ichthyology Department ~ 1993 Dakawa People, Places, Perspectives ~ 1994 Dep. Arts & Culture (Selected works) ~ 1997 Land, History & Self (selected Artists) ~ 1998 ; ;National: South Africa People, Places, Perspectives Traveling to mayor Art Galleries in South Africa ~ 1994-1995 ; ;International: Vancouver, Canada 1 work showing with Mariette Smith, Art Teacher at Le Broc, Vancouver ~ 1998 G?teborg, Sweden City to City ? Face to Face ~ 2000 ; ;Collections ;South Africa ;Nelson Mandela Bay, Humansdorp, Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg ;International ;USA - New York, Hartford, Beverly Hills ;Canada - Vancouver ;Europe - Germany, Faroe Islands, England, Sweden, France, Netherlands ;Australia ; ; |