Ann Gollifer
Botswana
World Art n Soul is pleased to offer a limited run of 1000 prints of a work by Botswana artist Ann Gollifer, with 20% of the money from sales of this work going to the Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust.
Ann Gollifer is a permanent resident of Botswana. She has lived and worked in Gaborone since 1985. In 1983 she graduated from Edinburgh University with a Masters degree in History of Art. From 1991 to 2001 she was part of the committee, involved with the administration and facilitation of the Thapong Triangle International Artist’s workshops that took place in Botswana, as well as the many smaller off-shoot art workshops that were organized annually by the Thapong committee. An Artist member of the Thapong Visual Art Centre, Gaborone, Ann was part of the executive committee, responsible for the building of the centre.
“I am a painter, printmaker, photographer and writer.
I migrate between these disciplines, trying to make sense of the worlds I live in, pass through, visit. I find more and more that the work I make has most resonance when it has been transformed, in the process of translation from one media to another, into an unexpected metamorphosis that has nothing to do with me as author but rather belongs to the workshop that is our expanding universe."
SELECTED SHOWS:
2000 – "THREE WOMEN THREE PERSPECTIVES", an exhibition of new work by Ann Gollifer, Coex ae Qgam (Dada) and Neo Matome that travelled to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Windhoek and Gaborone; funded and hosted by the Alliance Francaise, Botswana.
2001 - "HOCHE KOCHE" a multi media performance, originated, designed and co-produced by Ann Gollifer with Steve Dyer, musician and composer, Johannesburg and the Tumbuka Dance Company, Harare. The performance premiered in Harare at HIFA and then toured: Gaborone, The Grahamstown festival and the Dance Festival in Avignon, France. It toured France in 2002 and returned to the WITS theatre in Johannesburg for the 2002 Dance Umbrella.
2002 - "MONOMOTAPA", residency exhibition at the Fordsburg Studios, Johannesburg.
2006 - "LINHAS DE SANGUE, TERRITORIES OF THE HEART", a solo exhibition, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique.
2008 - OPEN STUDIO, DUMBO, Triangle Workshop. New York.
2010 -'WHAT AM I DOING HERE? KE DIRANG HA?’ Solo exhibition, BICHA Gallery, Gabriel's Wharf, South Bank, London.
2011 - ‘LIVING ON AN HORIZON’. A tribute to Bessie Head'. Solo Show at Circa on Jellicoe, Rosebank.
RESIDENCIES:
Fordsburg Art Studios, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, 2002
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS:
THAPONG, Botswana 1991, 1993, 2001
MBILE, Zambia, 1998
TUPELO, South Africa, 2000
TRIANGLE, New York, USA, 2008
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Sainsbury Africa Galleries, The British Museum, London, UK
The Triangle International Art Workshops, New York, USA
The Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg, South Africa
The National Museum, Gaborone, Botswana
The Thapong International Art Workshop, Gaborone, Botswana
The Mbile Art Collection, Lusaka, Zambia
Ann Gollifer is a permanent resident of Botswana. She has lived and worked in Gaborone since 1985. In 1983 she graduated from Edinburgh University with a Masters degree in History of Art. From 1991 to 2001 she was part of the committee, involved with the administration and facilitation of the Thapong Triangle International Artist’s workshops that took place in Botswana, as well as the many smaller off-shoot art workshops that were organized annually by the Thapong committee. An Artist member of the Thapong Visual Art Centre, Gaborone, Ann was part of the executive committee, responsible for the building of the centre.
“I am a painter, printmaker, photographer and writer.
I migrate between these disciplines, trying to make sense of the worlds I live in, pass through, visit. I find more and more that the work I make has most resonance when it has been transformed, in the process of translation from one media to another, into an unexpected metamorphosis that has nothing to do with me as author but rather belongs to the workshop that is our expanding universe."
SELECTED SHOWS:
2000 – "THREE WOMEN THREE PERSPECTIVES", an exhibition of new work by Ann Gollifer, Coex ae Qgam (Dada) and Neo Matome that travelled to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Windhoek and Gaborone; funded and hosted by the Alliance Francaise, Botswana.
2001 - "HOCHE KOCHE" a multi media performance, originated, designed and co-produced by Ann Gollifer with Steve Dyer, musician and composer, Johannesburg and the Tumbuka Dance Company, Harare. The performance premiered in Harare at HIFA and then toured: Gaborone, The Grahamstown festival and the Dance Festival in Avignon, France. It toured France in 2002 and returned to the WITS theatre in Johannesburg for the 2002 Dance Umbrella.
2002 - "MONOMOTAPA", residency exhibition at the Fordsburg Studios, Johannesburg.
2006 - "LINHAS DE SANGUE, TERRITORIES OF THE HEART", a solo exhibition, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique.
2008 - OPEN STUDIO, DUMBO, Triangle Workshop. New York.
2010 -'WHAT AM I DOING HERE? KE DIRANG HA?’ Solo exhibition, BICHA Gallery, Gabriel's Wharf, South Bank, London.
2011 - ‘LIVING ON AN HORIZON’. A tribute to Bessie Head'. Solo Show at Circa on Jellicoe, Rosebank.
RESIDENCIES:
Fordsburg Art Studios, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, 2002
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS:
THAPONG, Botswana 1991, 1993, 2001
MBILE, Zambia, 1998
TUPELO, South Africa, 2000
TRIANGLE, New York, USA, 2008
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Sainsbury Africa Galleries, The British Museum, London, UK
The Triangle International Art Workshops, New York, USA
The Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg, South Africa
The National Museum, Gaborone, Botswana
The Thapong International Art Workshop, Gaborone, Botswana
The Mbile Art Collection, Lusaka, Zambia
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A percentage of sales of this artwork go towards Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust
