Strijdom van der Merwe Born 2 June 1961 He resides in Stellenbosch, South Africa Can be contacted at: 12 Du Toit Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa Telephone and fax no: 0027 (0)21 8866496 e-mail: info@strijdom.com Website: www.strijdom.com Occupation: Full time artist In 1983 he obtained a BA Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Stellenbosch. Received the John van Reenen bursary as the best Graphic Design Student. He finished a BA Hons Degree in Fine Arts in 1984 at the same university. From 1984 onwards he worked as a graphic designer and in 1990 received a bursary from Dutch Government to study print-making at the Hooge School voor de Kunste, Utrecht, Holland. In 1992 he became head graphic designer at the graphic design studio of the University of Stellenbosch. From 1993 - 1995 he also lectured computer graphics at the Art Department of the University of Stellenbosch. During 1995 he studies sculpture for six months at the Academy of Art,Architecture & Design in Praha, the Chezh Republic and went on to become artist in residence at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, England in 1995/1996. Since 1996 he is working full time as an artist. Exhibitions and commissions on invitation were done in South Korea x 2, Turkey, Belgium x 2, France, Sweden, Lithuania, Japan, Australia, Germany, Kenya, England and Italy x 2. Finland, Norway and Belgium. He held many personal exhibitions in various art galleries in the past years and his work has been bought by numerous private and public collectors locally and abroad AWARDS Nominated Finalist artist 2018 in the category Land art for the COCA price Center Of Contemporary Artists: www.cocaproject.art Nominated Finalist for the International Award for Public Art (IAPA) The IAPA was established to increase visibility for public art internationally and is administered by the Institute for Public Art (based in Hong Kong) in collaboration with Forecast Public Art (USA) and Shanghai University (China). Member of the curatorial panel for World Design Capital Cape Town 2014. Winner in the catagory Sculpture and installation. It's LIQUID International Contest - First Edition 2012 Italia. Nominated for the Daimler Crysler Award for Sculpture in Public Spaces 2008 Medal of honor from the South African Academy of Arts and Science Recipient of the Jackson Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient of the Prince Claus Grant Amsterdam The Netherlands

Festival artist at the Aardklop Festival Potchefstroom 2013 Festival Artist at the Fjellfestival, Andelsnes, Norway 2013 Kanna Award in collaboration with Laurinda Hofmeyr at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival best musical visual Art production John van Reenen Bursary as the best Graphic Design Student, Univ of Stellenbosch PUBLICATIONS

March 1995 De Kat Magazine July 1995 De Kat Magazine September 1997 De Kat Magazine November 1997 De Kat Magazine July 1998 XOE Site Specific Visual Art Project September 1998 Catalogue District Six Sculpture Project January 1999 Insig Magazine January 1999 Garden and Home Magazine February 1999 Rooi Rose Magazine March 1999 Sarie Magazine April 1999 Insig Magazine June 1999 House and Leisure Magazine September 1999 SA Architect Magazine December 1999 First Rand Limited Annual Report December 2000 South African Airways Summer Festival at Spier January 2000 Elle Decoration Magazine September 2000 Insig Magazine November 2000 Rooi Rose Magazine February 2001 Condé Nast, House and Garden Magazine September 2001 Style Magazine August 2002 Insig Magazine September 2002 House and Leisure August 2003 Moving in time and space, Shifts between abstraction

and representation in post-war South African Art. Editor: Michael Stevenson

August 2003 Lulea Sommer Biennal Publication/Catalogue December 2003 Insig Magazine May 2004 Confluent Magazine Namur Belgium June 2004 Wine Magazine July 2004 Elle Decoration Magazine December 2004 Visi Magazine February 2005 Design Indaba Magazine March 2005 Visi Magazine March 2005 Built Magazine April 2005 Inflight Magazine for KLM (Dutch Airlines) June 2005 SA Journal of Natural Medicine Sept 2005 De Kat Magazine Dec 2005 House and Leisure Magazine Feb 2006 Insig Magazine March 2006 Art South Africa

April 2006 Mercedes Benz Magazine April 2006 Contempo Magazine (Launch of the First Publication) April 2006 Utne Magazine, Minneapolis, USA May 2006 Mercedes Magazine, New Media Publishing October 2006 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, South Korea Catalogue 2006 2006 ‘Etre Sable’ and ‘Etre Caoutchouc’ by Carlo Rocella

France 2006 Arte Sella, Sculpture Park, Italia, Catalogue Jan 2007 The Edge, Hapton-Brown Educational Publishers,

National Geographic USA September 2007 Mango Airlines in flight magazine September 2007 House and Leisure magazine September 2007 WWF Panda Magazine the Nederlands November 2007 Plus Eight One Voyage Design Magazine Japan Dreamy voyage through South African Design March 2008 DEKAT Magazine Front cover and inside article March 2008 Sarie Magazine April 2008 POMP a new once a year Afrikaans arts magazine April 2008 Good Taste Magazine July 2008 DEKAT July 2008 H&G BbICTABKA ( Russian House & Garden ) September 2008 House and Leisure Magazine December 2008 Garden and Home January2009 Russian Interior Magazine „ ME3OHNH‘ March 2009 House and Leisure May 2009 Conde Nast / House & Graden April / May 2009 Catalogue- Sources, Contemporary sculpture in the

Landscape. Exhibtion at Nirox Foundation. July 2009 Beelden, Dutch Art Magazine Front cover and inside August 2010 Personal Finance. Article on am/pm Shadow Lines August 2010 Star Landscape Architecture, The stars of landscape and

Land Art. Page One Publishing Singapore September 2010 Design Magazine, 17th Edition, (5 page article) October 2010 Elle Decoration, painting a line November2010 Country Life Magazine 2 pages on am/pm Shadow lines June 2011 Taste Magazine, Casparus restaurant June 2011 VISI Magazine July 2011 Happinez . Dutch Magazine August 2011 Transgressions and Boundaries of the page.

Catalogue/Book on Artists books. University of North West

September 2011 Sculpting the Earth, Artistic Interventions in the landscape Strijdom van der Merwe. 2nd Book on my work. Publshed

by Protea Bookhouse. September 2011 Cond Nast Garden and Home Magazine September 2011 FNB Johannesburg Art Fair Catalogue October 2011 Tokara Sculpture Exhibition Catalogue October 2011 500 x Art in Public. Publisher : Braun Germany January 2012 Yatoo International Project Publication South Korea

Unexpected Communication January 2012 Documentation Catalogue for the firts Site Specific Land

art event held at Plettenberg Bay 2011 , South Africa 2012 Design Indaba Magazine. Future prejects September 2012 House and Leisure Magazine, South Africa October 2012 House and Leisure Magazine, South Africa November 2012 Art Times , South Africa December 2012 The second YATOO International Project Nature Art

Exhibtion Jaargang 15, No 60 Beelden Magazine, Kwartaalblad, Nederland February 2013 Visi Magazine March 2013 Catalogue Site Specific Here After April 2013 House and Leisure Magazine November 2013 Earth Matters, Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts

of Africa. Catalogue Book, 320 pages, smithsonian Institute, Author: Dr Karen E Melbourne

December 2014 Natural Architecture Now. Francesca Tatarella. Princeton Architectural Press. New York.

October 2015 Nature Art . Istvan Eros. Hungary October 2015 The world Nature Art Catalogue. Yatoo. South Korea. November 2015/16 Breathing Art Catalogue. Yatoo. South Korea. 2016 Global Nomadic Art Project 2016 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2017 Yatoo Calendar 2017 Saadjies Catalogue, Cool capital biennale.

https://issuu.com/coolcapital/docs/saadjie_catalogue 2018 Yatoo Calendar 2018 Echigo Tsumari Biennale Catalogue 2018 Yatoo Video Exhibition: Wind 2019 Pro Landscaper. Coffee Tabel Edition. 2020 STILSPRAAK. Strijdom van der Merwe en Landkuns Author: Carina van der Walt. 278 pages. Published by SUNPRESS FILMS:http://www.youtube.com/user/strijdomvandermerwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACPq7xSxeU https://wn.com/flits_galery_strijdom_van_der_merwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ooPVykBnEw

EXHIBITIONS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS / LECTURES / TEACHING. etc. 2020 Goyang Sculpture Symposium. Korea Changwon Sculpture Biennale. Korea.

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale – Nature Art Video Exhibition. Korea The Lockdown Collection UJ Arts & Culture’s The Pandemic project. The Lockdown Extension portfolio. Collaboration with Peter Mathews Architect on the Pavilion for the Stellenbosch Trienale Group Exhibition: KNOOP. Slee Gallery, Stellenbosch Group Exhibition: Double vision. Photography, ArtB, Bellville, South Africa. Group Exhibition: Leaves and Waves. WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchatel, Switzerland Group Exhibition: Spier Light Art Festival 2019 Land Art Festival, Darmstadt, Germany Wadden Tide, Project, Denmark Group Exhibition, Art in the Yard, Franschhoek, Group Exhibition, Imibala Gallery, Somerset West. Kunskamer / Art Room, Group exhibition, Stellenbosch Group Exhibition: Spier Light Art Festival Curating the cube. Group Exhibtion University of Johannesburg Art Gallery Artist in residence ( February ): WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Group exhibition, Sculpture X, Sandton, Johannesburg. 2018 Artist in Residence, 1 month. WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Nature as a Cube. Group exhibition. Geumgang , South Korea SCULPT X 2018 Group exhibition Melrose Arch , Sandton. Johannesburg 2 x Sculptural installation for private client, Bantry Bay, Cape Town. Commisioned Artistic interventions in the landscape. Aus. Namibia. artist Sculptural installation for Edward Nathan Sonneberg’s ENS New Building at the Marc, Sandton Johannesburg. Sculptural installation for the Exhibition: FORWARD FORWARD FORWARD. Stellenbosch University Museum. HIV and AIDS Pencil Tree. For the Africa Centre for HIV and AIDS Management. University of Stellenbosch. Commissioned art work for the Faculty of Agri Science, Univ of Stellenbosch 100TH Anniversary. Earth Symbol, Canola planted in Wheat Fields. Boontjieskraal Farm, N2, Western Cape, South Africa. #Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018 Video Exhibition in S. Korea curated by Erőss István Gnab Yatoo Sculptural installations for Hazendal Wine Estate, South Africa Korean Nature Art Organisation YATOO-i 2019 Calendar.

Sculptural Installation at Kevin King South Hill Wines. South Africa Group exhibition Corobrick Ceramic Biennale . Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville. South Africa Echigo Tsumari Triennale, 2018. Japan Group exhibition The Grand . Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville. South Africa Group exhibition Museo de Santo Domingo at Pollença, Mallorca, Spain. Group exhibition Nature Art Cube Exhibition of Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Group exhibition Sequence and Formation Abstract art. Absolute Art Gallery Stellenbosch. Group exhibition Hermanus FIne Arts gallery Group exhibition PJ Olivier Arts Centre, Stellenbosch Group exhibition Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust, Stellenbosch 2017 Agulhas Icon Project. Most Southern Point of Africa Sculpture, as part of the Agulhas Icon Design Team. Group exhibition Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust, Stellenbosch Solo Exhibition, Lizamore Gallery. Johannesburg Group Exhibition, Sculpture, Circa Gallery. Johannesburg Group Exhibition, SculptX, Melrose Gallery. Johannesburg. Group Exhibition, Contemporary South African Art, Linteloo Showroom, Zeist, The Netherlands Sculpture Group Exhibition. Boschendal Wine Estate. South Africa Sculpture Group Exhibition. Durbanville Hills Wine Estate. South Africa Collaboration with Jan-Hendrik Harley. Classical live music performance / projection of images , Endler Hall. US Woordfees. Stellenbosch Sculptural Installation. Kweekskool, Univ of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch Group Exhibition, Saadjies , Botanical gardens, , Stellenbosch. Group Exhibition, Durbanville Hills , Cape Town Group Exhibition, Almenkerke, Grabouw, Group Exhibition, Land Rover, Stellenbosch. 2016 Pencils. Sculpture Installation Commissioned for National English Literature Museum, Grahamstown. Fragments of a landscape. Imibala gallery, Somerset West Global Nomadic Art Project. Association for Visual Arts. Cape Town 100 Geographies exhibition. Sasol Art Gallery. Stellenbosch Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, South Korea Land art Installation for the Nederburg Wine Auction , South Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ooPVykBnEw Group Exhibition, Cool Capital, Saadjies, Aardklop Arts Festival. Potchefstroom. Co-Curator and Organiser of the Global Nomadic Art Project South Africa, final exhibition at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibition, 100 Geographies, Sasol Museum, Stellenbosch Group Exhibition, Venice Sculpture Biennale, Italy Group Exhibition, Imibala Gallery, Somerser West, South Africa Group Exhibition, Land Art, Humus Park, Polcenigo, Italy Group Exhibition, D-Street Gallery, Stellenbosch. Sculpture Group exhibition,Lizamore@Clairvaux, Robertson Group Exhibition: Queretara & Oaxaca Mexico Sculptures on the Cliffs. Hermanus Fine Arts Festival. Hermanus. Ik Ben Een Afrikander & African Equations. Group Exhibition Lizamore and Associates Gallery Johannesburg. Feb 2016 2015 Co-Curator for: 1. Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAB) 2015-2016. South Korea 2.The Exhibition of 30 Nature Artists in the World 2015. South Korea Participating speaker at the International Nature Art Seminar. South Korea Group Show. Between Heaven and Earth, Video . Geumgang, South Korea. Group Show. 30 Nature Artist of the World 2015 . Geumgang, South Korea. As a collaboration exhibtion: ATKV Aartvark price for most innovative work at the Aardklop Arts Festival in Potchefstroom 2015 South Africa Group Show. Free State Art Festival, Bloemfontein. Place / Plek / Identity Group Show. INTOTO Gallerie. Gache III. Johannesburg Solo Exhibition , Whow Studios, Durbanville, South Africa Solo Exhibition , D Street Gallery, Woordfees, Stellenbosch. South Africa Group Exhibition: TWENTY: Art in the time of Democracy. UJ Art Gallery Group Exhibition: MŰVÉSZETI MALOM, Intimimacy and the Public Sector Szentendre, Hungary Group Exhibition: TWENTY: Art in the time of Democracy. Pretoria Art Museum. Ik Ben Een Afrikander: The Unequal Conversation. Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein Ik Ben Een Afrikander: The Unequal Conversation. NWU Gallery Potchefstroom Group exhibition, D Street Gallery, Woordfees, Stellenbosch. Ik Ben Een Afrikander: The Unequal Conversation. Freedom Park, Pretoria. SAADA South African Antique and Art Dealers Association. Lookout, Cape Town Industrial Karoo Fear and Loss, Group Exhibition , Pretoria Art Museum 2014 Group exhibition: TWENTY: Art in the time of Democracy Appalachian State University Turchin Centre in North Carolina Group exhibition: Summer of sculpture, Everard Read / Mount Nelson. Cape Town. Instalation of 10 000 ceramic cups in the Castel of Good Hope, Cape Town for the Ukusela Ekapa project in collaboration with Hennie Meyer Sculptural Installation, Private client on the farm Speekhoutfontein Eastern Cape, South Africa Solo Exhibition at D-Sreet gallery, Dorp Street, Stellenbosch. Drawing a Line‘ as part of MOP6 ( Month of photography and World Design Capital )

Installation worshops and lectures at Cool Capital Pretoria, Tswane. Group Exhibition, Utopia, Cavalli Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa Regional Judge for the Sasol New Signatures Competion, Western Cape. Group Exhibition, Industrial Karoo , Fear and Loss, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South africa Group Exhibition, Tankwa Karoo, Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch. Group Exhibition, Sculptures on the Clif, Hermanus Fine Arts Festival. Group Exhibition, Nirox Sculpture Park, Winter 2014, Johannesburg Psyche and Soul, Group Exhibition, D-Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Sculpture for the group exhibition ‘Kom Sit’ as part of the Stellenbosch Sculpture Trust annual exhibition, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Video Installation for the Choir Performance: Karoo Nagte, conducted by Martin Berger as part of the Woord Fees, Stellenbosch, South Africa Nirox Sculpture Exhibition 2014 , Group Show, Johannesburg, South Africa Group Exhibition, ‘Our Country” Oude Libertas Art Gallery, Stellenbosch. Group Exhibition, 'Dialogues' 2013 at the Association of Arts Pretoria 2013 Installation Cape Town Art Fair Group exhibition: Reart Gallery Vienna, Austria Back to the future, Abstract art in South Africa past and present. SMAC Art gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Festival artist at the Aardklop Festival Potchefstroom 2013 Co-Founder Organizer of the 2nd Site Specific Land Art event held in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa X-Border Biennale, Commissioned work for the city of Rovaniemi, Finland, permanent installation Invited Artists for the Exhibition SWIM , Malta Festival Artist; Norsk Festival Molde, Norway Monochrome, Group Exhibition at the ArtB gallery Bellville, South Africa "Dialogues 2013" exhibition. at the Orangerie Exhibition Çenter of the French Senate, 15 Rue de Vaugirard, Paris Klip and Klei at the Breytenbach Art Center Wellington . South Africa. Earth work installation for the Museum of Africa Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washigton DC Artist talk on my work in the Audetorium of the Hirshhorn Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Group exhibition. After the Rainbow Nation. Nirox Foundation. South Africa Member of the curatorial panel for World Design Capital Cape Town 2014. Group exhibition. Sasol Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Guest lecturer at the Univerity of Stellenbosch School for Journalist. Group exhibition, Slee Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Group exhibition. Word Festival, Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Group exhibition, New Beginings, Belville, South Africa 2012 Installation sculpture Segera Lodge for the Zeitz Foundation, Puma International, Kenya

Group exhibition: Summer of sculpture, Everard Read / Mount Nelson. Cape Town Presenting two day workshop at the Architectural Department of the University of Tshwane. Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Solo Exhibition at the CIRCA Gallery, Johannesburg , South Africa. It's LIQUID International Contest - First Edition 2012 Italia. Winner in the catagory Sculpture and installation Green Sanctus Group Exhibition at the Oude Libertas Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Landscape. Group Exhibition and curator at the Oude Libertas Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Landscape. Set and stage design for the Musical production Landscape at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2011 Group Show. Tokara Sculpture Exhibition, Stellenbosch, 2011 Group exhibition 20 Years of sculpture in South Africa, Stellenbosch Group exhibition, Yatoo International Project. Geumgang Nature Art Centre, South Korea FNB Johannesburg Art Fair / Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg Sculpture installation Lourensford, Somerset West Water the delicate thread of Life. Group Exhibition, Standard Bank Gallery , Johanneburg Organizing committee First Ever , Site_Specific Land Art Event , Plettenberg Bay, South Africa Solo Exhibition, IS Art , Franschhoek, South Africa Commissioned sculpture for the University of the Free State, South Africa Group exhibition Modern Art Practice, at the University of Johannesburg Sculpture for private house; May vd Merwe, Stellenbosch, South Africa Completion of design and opening of the restaurant Casparus , Stellenbosch 2010 Sculpture for the Warekloof Wine Estate Somerset West, South Africa Group exhibition Gallery Grand Provance, Franschhoek, South Africa Group exhibition ISart, Franschhoek, South Africa Public Art Around the World. A Exhibition, Sandton Central, Johannesburg Ecotopian Estates, Group Exhibition, UJ Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa “Land: Unity and Diversity” Group Exhibition Association of Arts Pretoria, Cultural change between India and South Africa Photographic Group exhibition ISART Franschoek. South Africa Installation: Fileds of Flowering Hands, Gilloolys Interchange, Johannesburg South Africa. Fifa, Soccer World Cup Group Exhibition Video Installation Chowmohalla Palace Hyderabad, India The 2ndAllArtNow International New Media Art Festival, Damaskus, Syria Earth Work Installation am/pm Shadow Lines De Beers Namaqualand Mines, West Coast South Africa

Installation exhibition for ABSA Bank at the Cape Epic Cycle Tour Installation exhibition for ABSA Bank at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn South Africa 2010 Visuel projection Exhibition in collaboration with the Jazz Art Dance Theatre Company in the stage production GROND at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival Oudtshoorn South Africa Water For Life Installation: Eerste river Stellenbosch Group Exhibition: Artists Book Exhibition, Word Festival Stellenbosch Sculpting the Land: Arts on Main, Johannesburg. Nirox and Sylt Foundation 2009 Sculptural Installations for new Gallery at Ellerman House, Cape Town. Ilarge Scale, Installation at Neethlingshof Wine Estate, Stellenbosch Group Exhibition Gallery Red Black and White, Stellenbosch Group Exhibition Gallery Grand Provance, Franschoek Exhibition at the newley renovated: Pier Rabe Antiques Art and Contemporary Design Space. Stellenbosch Exhibition at the Aardklop Arts Festival Potchefstroom Group Exhibition: Exploration of the Southern African Geography. On exhibition in Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch, Durban, East London 5 sculptures for Simonsig Winery and the Stellenbosch Wine Festival Sculpture for the Wild Mushroom Academy Guest House Stellenbosch Commisioned art work for the OEROL Art Festival Terschelling Holland Artist in Residence Sylt, Germany 1 month 20 works on rotation exhibtion. Various venues. Distell Company. South Africa Group Sculpture exhibition at Nirox Foundation, Cradle of Human Kind, South Africa Opening Solo Exhibition, Gallery Red Black and White‘ Stellenbosch, South Africa Installation Art Work for the ‚Woordfees‘ 2009 Stellenbosch, South Africa 2008 Sasol Art Gallery Stellenbosch, Mercedes Benz Awards Exhibition. Art in Public Spaces Décor for the play ‚BOOM‘ at the Arts Festival in Bloemfontein with text by Nataniel, costumes by Erol Arends and regie by Adriaan Meyer Solo exhibition at the Association for Visuel Arts in Cape Town Land Art Installation of 393 trees wrapped in red material in Dorp Street Stellenbosch Suth Africa Pretoria Art Museum. Mercedes Benz Awards Exhibition. Art in Public Spaces Invited Land Art Installation, Pordenone, Italy Artist in Residence ( 4 weeks ) NIROX Foundation Cradle of Human Kind Gauteng South Africa Field Museum Chicago USA, Invisioning Change Exhibition Dorp Street Gallery Stellenbosch, South Africa Klein Karoo National Arts Festival Oudtshoorn South Africa

2007 Group exhibition in collaboration with MAP (Modern art Practice) in Richmond Northern Cape South Africa Group exhibition Grand Provance Franschhoek and Dorp street Gallery Stelenbosch, South Africa Experimenal Film Festival Carbunanari Florean Museum Baia Mare, Romania Experimenal Film Festival Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York Invisioning Change, Nobel Peace Centre Oslo Norway BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium 14 Sculptures for the Simonsberg Ward Wine Route, Stellenbosch, South Africa 30 x 30 Exhibition Univ of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, South Africa Focus Contemporary Gallery , Cape Town, South Africa Medal of honor Award from the South African Academy of Art and Science 2006 Recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for 2006/7. Sculpture for the Sunday Times News Paper: First Long Distance Flight: London - Cape Town. Sculptural installation of yellow hands for the opening season of the Oude Libertas Amphiteater, Stellenbosch, South Africa Invited sculpture for Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, Chungnam, South Korea. Installation art work for the outdoor play “TREK” at the Klein Karoo Ntional Arts Festival Oudtshoorn, directed by Gaerin Hauptflish. Solo opening exhibition for the New Gallery of the University of Johannesburg. Commissioned sculpture for Floating land, Brisbane, Australia. Commissioned sculpture for the art park, Art Sella, Borgu Valsugano, Italy. Three rivers / wild waters,sacred places. Art exhibition Gallery film. Canada. Video installation exhibition in collaboration with the music of Laurinda Hofmeyr, Oude Libertas Amphiteater, Stellenbosch. Group Exhibition for the opening of ‘Kwa Ttu’ San Bushman Culture Centre near Yzerfontein, South Africa. Land Art Installation for the play ‘Trek’ directed by Gaerin Hauptflisch at the Klein Karoo Nasional Arts Festival, Oudsthoorn. Group Exhibition at Grand Provance Gallery, Franschhoek. 2005 Opening Solo exhibition, New gallery for the University of Johannesburg Commissioned sculpture for Floating land, Brisbane, Australia Commissioned sculpture for the art park, Art Sella, Borgu Falsugano, Italy Three rivers / wild waters,sacred places. Art exhibition Gallery film. Canada. Entrance Installation for Design Indaba, Cape Town, South Africa Two day workshop for Dept. Architecture University of Port Elizabeth Three day workshop for Dept. Architecture University of Pretoria Commissioned sculpture for Rooiberg Winery Robertson

Installation for homemakers Expo in Cape Town International Convention Centre Installation Art work for the company J.P. Morgan Tygervallei, Cape Town Solo exhibition, Cuyler Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth Group Exhibition Overgaauw Wine Farm Stellenbosch 2004 Spier Sculpture Biennale, Spier, Stellenbosch, South Africa KKNK Oudtshoorn, South Africa : Kanna Award for the best production at festival with Laurinda Hofmeyr La Fete de Mai, Belgium, Namur, Gesves 40 Years, University of Stellenbosch Art Department, Sasol Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa The Art of Drawing, Durbanville Art Gallery, South Africa Group exhibition, Cuyler Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Sculpture for Europo Parkos, Lithuania Three sculptures for SHG, public building, Cape Town, South Africa Group exhibition, Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2003 Land Art images used by Sanlam for the 2003 calender Commissioned sculpture for Rooiberg Winery, Robertson, South Africa Five day workshop for Architecture Department, University of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Group exhibition : “Dialogue” at three galleries in Western Cape, South Africa Group exhibition at Cuyler Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa One day workshop for Architecture Students’ Congress, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa Installation exhibition, Afrikaans Word Festival, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at Bloom Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at Natalie Fitz-Gerald Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico Luleå Summer Biennal, Sweden Artist in residence for six weeks and commissioned work, Kamiyama, Tokushima, Japan Joint exhibition at Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2002 Group exhibition : “Landscape and Architecture” at University of Pretoria, South Africa Commissioned sculpture for Campus Square, Mellville, Johannesburg, South Africa Design the stand for Plascon, main sponsor of the Decorex SA exhibition at Cape Town Solo exhibition at Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Commissioned sculpture and exhibition at Tokara Winery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at Morgenhof Winery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Group exhibition : “Eclipse of the Sun” at Minds’i Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa Group exhibition at Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at Bloom Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Five day workshop for Architecture Department, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa Co-curator of the first Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennale in conjunction with the Jan Marais Nature Reserve, Stellenbosch 2001 Curating and exhibiting the exhibition “Dialogue” at the University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Invited artist to “La fete de Mai” sculptures in a forest, Gesves, Belgium Solo exhibition at the Open Window Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa International Eskisehir Terra Cotta Symposium, Turkey. Group exhibition at Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa Group exhibition at Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa International Sculptors Exhibition, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, Korea Sculpture group exhibition, Seoul Museum of Modern Art, Korea 2000 Invited artist, presenting South Africa, at the Sculptor Symposium for the 50th anniversary of the Korean War in Pusan, Korea, organised by the United Nations Solo exhibition at the Association for Visual Arts, Metropolitan Life Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Commissioned artist for one month near Lassaube, France (private collection) Group exhibition at the South African Association for Visual Arts, Bellville, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa 1999 Solo exhibition at the Cuyler Street Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Group exhibition at the Gencor Gallery, RAU, Johannesburg/SAAA Pretoria, South Africa Officially invited artist at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa Solo exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at the University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Print making, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at the South African Association for Visual Arts, Bellville, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Group exhibition at the South African Association for Visual Arts in Worcester, South Africa Invited artist for the Spier Summer Festival Programme, sponsored by South African Airways Design the winning stand for House and Leisure at Decorex SA 1998 Officially invited artist at the Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Life Gallery, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa Solo exhibition at the Gencor Gallery, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa Group exhibition at the A.R.T. Gallery in Paarl, South Africa Second group exhibition at A.R.T. Gallery in Paarl, South Africa Group exhibition at the South African Association for Visual Arts in Worcester, South Africa Invited group exhibition at the Helderberg Arts Festival, South Africa Curating a group exhibition at the South African Association for Visual Arts, Bellville, South Africa 1997 Officially invited artist at the Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa Solo exhibition at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town, South Africa Group exhibition at the SAAA, Worcester, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Group exhibition at the Primart Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Group exhibition at the University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Solo exhibition at Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, University of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Solo exhibition at the BCI Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Group exhibition at the Area Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Invited landart installation/documentation exhibition at Rooiberg Winery, Robertson, South Africa Western Cape Regional Judge, Volkskas Atelier Award 1996 Solo exhibition at the Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, Kent, England Solo exhibition, SAAA, Bellville, South Africa Solo exhibition, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, South Africa Group exhibition, Absolute (Secret) Vodka at AVA Cape Town, South Africa

Two persons exhibition, SAAA, Bellville, South Africa Judge for the final entrance of the Santam International Childrens Art Exhibition 1995 Group exhibition, SAAA, Bellville, South Africa Group exhibition, VSUP, Namesti Jana Palacha 80, Praha, Chezh Republic Solo exhibition, SAAA, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, South Africa Artist in residence for six months at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, England Judge for the Chezh Republic entrance to the Santam International Childrens Art Exhibition 1994 Solo exhibition, University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, South Africa Solo exhibition, SAAA, Bellville, South Africa Invitation to exhibit at Gallerie du Temple, 31 Rue du Temple, Paris, France Chosen by Drew University, Madison, New York to take part in the New York Semester on Contemporary Art 1993 Two person exhibition at the SAAA, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, South Africa Group exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Two person exhibition at the Grahamstown Standard Bank National Arts Festival, South Africa Two person exhibition at the Arts Alive Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa Two person exhibition at the Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa 1992 Two person exhibition at South African Association of Arts (SAAA), Jean Welz Gallery, Worcester, South Africa