WELGEMEEND: Exhibition – Cape Moments/ Kaapse Oomblikke

DATES
3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 31 August 2023

TIME
9:30am – 3pm

VENUE
Welgemeend Manor House, 2 Welgemeend St, Gardens, Cape Town

ENTRANCE FEES
General Public – R50.00
Friends of Welgemeend – R30.00
Scholars (u/18) – Free
Group Fees – On Request

MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Frank Kilbourn, who is curating the exhibition together with Strauss & Co’s head curator Wilhelm van Rensburg, adds: “For the tenth edition of August Art Month at Welgemeend, we thought it would be rewarding to look specifically at the many and diverse portrayals of life and the landscape of the Cape by artists we collect. It is always a joy to hang these exhibitions at Welgemeend, and this year we hope to once again surprise visitors with a selection of artworks that encompass both the natural beauty of the region and important social events particular to this part of South Africa.”

The artist line up is thoroughly diverse and ranges from celebrated Cape landscape painters like Gregoire Boonzaier, Gwelo Goodman, J. E. A. Volschenk, Hugo Naude’ and Erik Laubscher to documentary photographers David Goldblatt, George Hallett and Jürgen Schadeberg. The exhibition will include a focus on Simon’s Town-born painter and graphic artist Peter Clarke, whose socially minded work lovingly focussed on life in the Cape Peninsula. Nic Bladen’s life-size bronze studies of petite Cape flora contrast with painter Matthew Hindley’s larger-scale studies of fires on Table Mountain.