Penny Siopis valuation
South African artist whose cake paintings, history paintings and later work deal with memory, the body and shame.
Penny Siopis was born in Vryburg, South Africa, in 1953, to Greek parents.
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Bio
Penny Siopis was born in Vryburg, South Africa, in 1953, to Greek parents. She studied fine art at Rhodes University, completing a master's degree in 1976, and went on to postgraduate study at Portsmouth Polytechnic in England. She taught in Durban and, from 1984, at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and she lives in Cape Town, where she is an honorary professor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. She came to prominence in the early 1980s with her cake paintings, in thick impasto, followed by history paintings that were read as a form of resistance to apartheid. Since then her work, across a wide range of materials and processes, has dealt with memory and truth, the body, grief and shame, migration and, more recently, climate change.
Paintings, works on paper and films all appear. Some of her paintings use unusual materials whose surfaces can be fragile, so condition should be checked, and a gallery invoice and the date of the work place it within her output.
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