Thelma van Rensburg

Biography

Thelma van Rensburg is South African by birth (1969).  She holds B.A Honours degrees in Physical education and Psychology.  In 2004 she decided to pursue art as a full time career and received her B.Tech degree in Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology in 2007.  She has undertaken numerous research trips and travelled extensively to broaden her knowledge of art.

Since graduating in 2007, she has participated in four solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout South Africa.  Her work has featured in prestigious competitions in South Africa such as Sasol New Signatures, Thami Mnyele Fine Arts awards and the Sanlam Vuleka Arts competition in South Africa.  

Her work is in art collections in Holland, France, South-Africa and Germany.  She has also exhibited alongside well-known South African artists such as Claudette Shreuders, Jan van der Merwe, Wilma Cruise, Asha Zero and Diane Victor.

Her art making process includes mixed media, painting and drawing and focuses on the grotesque in female representation.  She thus explores the female form, with a focus on female sexuality, beauty and ugliness, otherness, the gaze and the representation of women in the media.

Personal details:

Email: thelmav@lantic.net

tel:+27(0)82 858 3958

Website: https://www.facebook.com/ThelmaGrotesquefemininities

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