has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Recent Activities of and on Thelma Van Rensburg
About me
Thelma Van Rensburg (thelma)
My work deals with the masquerade as concealment of identity. Woman conceal their true identities to fit into societies rules. They therefore disguise their true identities and use the mask as an accessory. Eventually they loose their identity in this constant concealment and loose touch with themselves. My work portrays this as a dismemberment of the self, as Orlan says I try to make sense of this dismemberment by the very act of dismembering. .
- Biography
3.3 Thelma van Rensburg
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. 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.- Exhibitions
Since 2008 she participated in several group exhibitions including ones at Fried Contemporary Gallery in Pretoria; Magpie Gallery in Centurion; The Gallery, Duncan yard, Pretoria and the MAP Gallery in Graskop. In 2009 van Rensburg took part in group exhibitions at Dluxeville Gallery, Woodstock; Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town; Pretoria; Kunsthouse Gallery in Cape Town; in the Affordable Art Fair at Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria; St Lorient Fashion and Art Gallery, Pretoria, Aardklop Arts Festival, Potchsefstroom. The artist also had a solo Exhibition at Kunsthouse, in Cape Town in September 2009 and was a finalist in the Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Awards as well as in the Vuleka Sanlam competition in Cape Town in 2009.
In 2010 her work was show cased at the The Gallery at Duncan yard on several occasions. Articles and frames in Pretoria, Artcafe@thehub in Centurion, Gallery 18th Avenue In Pretoria and at Art Space Warehouse in Johannesburg.
- Publications
She has been selected for online publishing of her work by Itch Magazine on two occasions and has been selected by One Small Seed Magazine as one of the Selected Creative’s, where only 10 were chosen to participate to appear in the magazine.
Her work has been published in The “A look Away magazine”, 2010, “International Contemporary artists - Volume I, 2010 and The International Contemporary Masters Volume V", 2011, a juried annual art book.
Work “ Masquerade, 2008” featured in Pink Panther Magazine 26/01/2011 www.pinkpanthermagazine@wordpress.com
Thelma Van Rensburg wrote on June 18, 2011 18:48:
They are great, love them
angela rohde wrote on June 18, 2011 18:13:
dear thelma,
thank you for adding some favourites and for showing your great collages.
cheers angela