Name: Annette du Plessis
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Education
PE technikon, South Africa, 1986
Foundation Study in Fine Arts, first year, did not complete degree
Awards & Achiements
King George Art Gallery, South Africa, 1994 - 1995
'people,places & perspectives'
work selected to go on national tour mayor South African Government galleries
Pendula Women's Art Exhibition, 1995
Organised a woman's art exhibition for Port Elizabeth City
Dakawa, Grahamstown, South Africa,1998
Selected as one of 17 Eastern Cape Artists to exhibit at a historical exhibition
Eastern Cape Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa, 1998
Certificate of Excellency
FNB Vita Awards, South Africa, 1998
Merit Award
Konst Epidemic Artist Residency, Sweden, 2001
Won residency award during 2001 after Annette's artwork was selected as a winner in the City to City - Face to Face Exhibition, Goteborg, Sweden - under the banner of the partnership between Port Elizabeth City and Goteborg City
Siyaya Centre for Young Arts, South Africa, 2001-current
Founded and running a community art centre in an African township, New Brighton, Nelson Mandela Bay.
Arts and Culture Community Participation
Imvaba Arts and culture Anti-apartheid organisation, South Africa, 1998-1991
Activist participating with other artist activists against apartheid, doing collective murals (at Mayibuye museum, Cape Town), logo's, posters, banners, etc.
Port Elizabeth Action Committee, South Africa, 1989-1990
'Give Conscripts a choice' Creative banner - embroidered and collaged - against forced apartheid conscription for all white male South African Citizens
Ex Detainees Committee, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1990
Creative art banner, collaged and embroidered - welcoming the Release of the ?Rivonia? prisoners from Robben Island (before the release of Nelson Mandela)
Port Elizabeth Woman's Organisation, 1989
Creative Banner against apartheid
PEPCO, 1989
Creative banner against apartheid
NIR - Koinonia, 1990
Creative banner against apartheid
Women's Decade, 1989
Creative banner against apartheid
SANSCO, 1989
Creative banner against apartheid
Uitenhage Civic Organisation, 1990
Creative banner against apartheid
NADEL, 1990
Creative banner against apartheid
COSAS, 1989/1990
Creative banner against apartheid
ANC, 1991-1996
Creative banner for first welcoming rally for Nelson Mandela
Several creative banners for various ANC branches within Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage
SACP, 1991
Creative banner
IDASA, 1990
Creative banner for 'One City, one municipality'
ANC Women's League, 1991
Creative banner
NESG, 1990/1991
Logo for welcoming t-shirts for the returning exiles
National Health Department, 1995
'Aids the new struggle' With 4 other artists, painted a mural on Brister House, Nelson Mandela Bay.
Port Elizabeth Tourism, 1989
'Pambile ne African Renaisance, Pambile' Commissioned with 2 other artists to do a mural on the historical Grand Hotel in Nelson Mandela Bay
Arts and Culture Organisational Commitments
ANC Cultural Desk - Western Districts, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1996
Head cultural Desk
Port Elizabeth Civic Society Forum, 1996
Representative City's visual artists
Port Elizabeth Arts and Culture Council, 1997
Chairperson Visual arts sector
Exhibitions
Local: Nelson Mandela Bay
Highbury Art Gallery ~ 1993-1994
Wezandla ~ 1994-1995
King George Art Gallery ~ 1994-1998
People, Places, Perspectives
GAP
EPSAFC Imvaba Exhibition ~ 1993
Ichthyology Department
Dakawa ~ 1004, 1997, 1998
People, Places, Perspectives ~ 1994
Eastern Cape Department Arts and Culture selected artworks ~ 1997
Selected Eastern Cape artists - 'land history and self' ~ 1998
Pendula Women?s Art Exhibition ~ 1995
Human Rights Exhibition
UPE & Dower College ~ 1997-1998
Eastern Cape Department of Arts and
Culture
Selection Exhibition (Wezandla, Green Acres, King George) ~ 1997-1998
The Rebirth of Art
Centenary, UPE ~ 1997-1998
Women?s Art Exhibition
King Edward Hotel ~ 1999
Partnership Port Elizabeth & G?teborg
Face to Face Exhibition ~ 2000 in G?teborg
Dammetjies Business Consultants
Local artist exhibition ~ 2005
Provincial: Eastern Cape, South Africa
Imvaba Exhibition
Ichthyology Department ~ 1993
Dakawa
People, Places, Perspectives ~ 1994
Dep. Arts & Culture (Selected works) ~ 1997
Land, History & Self (selected Artists) ~ 1998
National: South Africa
People, Places, Perspectives
Traveling to mayor Art Galleries in South Africa ~ 1994-1995
International:
Vancouver, Canada
1 work showing with Mariette Smith, Art Teacher at Le Broc, Vancouver ~ 1998
G?teborg, Sweden
City to City ? Face to Face ~ 2000
Collections
South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay, Humansdorp, Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg
International
USA - New York, Hartford, Beverly Hills
Canada - Vancouver
Europe - Germany, Faroe Islands, England, Sweden, France, Netherlands
Australia
deepspace art