Thelma van Rensburg

Zuid-Afrika

Thelma van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969. She has a B.A Honours degree in physical education from the University of Pretoria and a B.A Honours degree in psychology from Unisa. In 2004 she decided to study art full time and received her B.Tech degree in Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology in 2007. She completed a further Hounours degree in Fine arts at the University of Pretoria in 2013 and completed a Masters of Arts degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2016. She completed three artist residencies through Transart Institute for creative practice in Berlin and Mexico between 2015 and 2018. She has participated in nine solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout South Africa. Her work has featured in prestigious competitions such as Sasol New Signatures, Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards and the Sanlam Vuleka Arts competition.

Solo Exhibitions:

2021:

The Grotesquerie of trauma, Exhibition of oil paintings and digital work, Longstreet

Art Lovers, Pretoria.

I exist in multiples, Exhibition of digital art, Lizamore and Associates Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2020:

The haunting of the never recovered pieces, Mixed media artworks, Longstreet Art Lovers, Pretoria

2018:

The allure of the unruly.

Exhibition of Mono prints, BlackBox exhibition, Pretoria Arts Association.

2017:

SurfaceAllure/Concealed decay, Exhibition of Mono prints, Art Lovers, Pretoria

2016:

Uneasy Bodies: Femininity and death. St Lorient fashion and Art gallery, Pretoria, South Africa.

Shut up and be still: Master of Arts final exhibition for grading, Van Wouw House, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.

“Poetic Death”, Exhibition of paintings: Art Lovers gallery, Pretoria, South Africa. 2014:

“Fragments of unbecoming”, Exhibition of paintings, Art Lovers, Pretoria. 2009:

“Seductress in distress”, Kunsthouse, Cape Town,

Artworks