Rossouw, Roelof
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- Roelof Rossouw
Born: 1957, Gauteng, South Africa.
Profile:
1976
Completed school at the Kimberley Boys’ High
1979-1981
Studied at the Johannesburg School of Art gaining a
National Diploma in Art and Design
1977-1978
Regiment artist during his National Service
1979-1981
Studied at the Johannesburg School of Art gaining a
National Diploma in Art and Design
1982-1990
Employed by the Medical University of Southern Africa
as graphic artist and medical illustrator
1992
Started painting seriously on a daily basis
2001
Moved to Robertson, Western Cape Province
Exhibitions:
1989-2008
Several group exhibitions in Johannesburg, Pretoria,
Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Umhlanga, Glasgow, London,
Jersey, Cheltenham, San Francisco, Armagh (N. Ireland), Miami and Galway
1999
Three-man exhibition at the Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
2001 & 2005
Two-man exhibitions in Pretoria
31 Solo exhibitions
Rentmeester Gallery, Verwoerdburg 1988
Coetzee Roux, Johannesburg 1994
Galerie Estelle Rossouw, Lynnwood 1993; 1994; 1995
Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch 1995
Crake Gallery, Norwood JHB 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 00; 01; 02; 03; 05
Zona Boshoff, Brooklyn 1996
The Cape Gallery, Cape Town 1997; 99; 01; 02; 03 ; 04; 05; 06; 07
Compton Cassey Gallery, near Cheltenham UK 2002
The Art Gallery, Menlo Park, Pretoria 2003; 2004
The Stellenbosch Art Gallery 2004
Galerie Gora, Montreal, Canada 2006
Public Collection:
JCI; The Sage Group; Anglo-Vaal; MTN; SAFMARINE; SAA; TRANSNET; The Cape Grace Hotel, Cape Town; Mount Grace Hotel, The Woodburn Mann Art Collection; Rupert International; The Clough Collection; The Pretoria Art Museum and many private collections in South Africa and throughout the world.
Awards:
First prize - Front Cover for Eric Bolsmann’s book on Pretoria
Influences:
For many years I have been studying the works of contemporary artists such as:
Everett Raymond Kinstler, a noted painter of New York; Bernard Dunstan, Ken Howard and Fred Cuming of England; Josep Sala of Barcelona and more recently Wolf Kahn of USA.
