Thelma van Rensburg

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,

“Masquerade”, Exhibition of digital works: Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town