Thelma van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South-Africa in 1969. She has studied and travelled extensively. The artist has always had an interest in art, but did not pursue it as a career until 2000. You could say she was a late bloomer. She has a B.A Hons. Degree in Physical education and Psychology. In 2004 she decided to study art full time and received her B.Tech/ Honours degree in 2007 and majored in Printmaking and Painting. Her thesis focused on the Postmodern Identity, which she passed with distinction
I am interested in the female form and the objectification and dismemberment of women. I try to make sense of this dismemberment by the very act of dismembering. My main means of art making is the manipulation of images in Photoshop. By manipulating the skin or surface of the female body, I am subverting the traditional role of men, not taking control of the body myself and fragmenting and dismembering it – more often than not, the artworks manifest themselves through the female gaze. Through this process I create my own phantasmagoric world of women.

Thesis completed cum laude
Exhibitions:
Resident Artist at : Kunsthouse Cape Town www.kunsthouse.co.za
Smudge Contemporary Gallery Clarens
Art-Mine Gallery New York – www.art-mine.com
November 2006 :
Students exhibition at UNISA, Pretoria with news paper review
June 2007:
Finalist in the Sasol new Signatures Art Competition
2008:
Group Exhibition at the Fried Contemporary Gallery in Pretoria
Group Exhibition at Magpie Gallery in Centurion
Group Exhibition at The Gallery, Duncan yard, Pretoria
Group Exhibition at the MAP Gallery in Graskop
2009:
Group Exhibition at Dluxeville Gallery, Woodstock.
Group Exhibition at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town
Members Exhibition at the Arts Association, Pretoria

Group Exhibition at Magpie Gallery in Centurion
Group Exhibition at Kunsthouse Gallery in Cape Town
Group exhibition at Fried Gallery, Pretoria, Affordable Art Fair Pretoria
Group exhibition at St lorient Fashion and Art Gallery, Pretoria
Group Exhibition at Duncan yard gallery, Pretoria
Group Exhibition at Duncan Yard Gallery, Pretoria
Entry for Sasol competition
Entry for Spier competition
Entry for Aesthetica magazine competition, www.aestheticamagazine.com
Magpie group exhibition
* Solo Exhibition Kunsthouse, Cape Town 24th September
Aardklop Exhibition, Potchsefstroom
Magpie group exhibition
Entry for Artslant showcase competition, www.artslant.com
Group exhibition St Lorient Fashion Gallery, Brooklyn
Sanmart Gallery
The Gallery Duncan Yard
Competitions:
Finalist in Ekhurhuleni competition South-Africa2009
Finalist in Vuleka competition, Cape Town 2009
Entry – Spier Competition 2009, Cape Town
Finalist in Sanlam Vuleka competition Cape Town 2010
2010
Fried Contemporary: Group exhibition-Bodies in Transition
Art@ The Hub, Centurion
The Gallery, Duncan Yard, Pretoria
Platform on 18th, Pretoria
Art Space Warehouse, Johannesburg, group exhibition-skin
Art Space Warehouse-Oppitafel
St Lorient Fashion, Pretoria – Perfume bottle exhibition
2011
Rust-en-Vrede gallery, durbanville, Solo exhibition
Map Retrospective, U.J gallery

ITCH Online Magazine publication of work, issue 04
ITCH online magazine publication e.05 http://www.itch.co.za/?article=301
ITCH online magazine publication e.07
Publication in Art Volumes and Magazines:
Publication in A Look away Magazine May 2010
International Contemporary Artists Volume 1, by I.C.A Publishing 2011 http://www.incoartists.com/
“International Contemporary Masters Volume 5”, 2011 by World Wide Art Books http://www.internationalcontemporarymasters.com/artists.html
Publication in “International Dictionary of Artist 2011” by World Wide Art books
Selected for “Selected Creative’s “ for One Small Seed magazine issue 22, 2011