Hylton nel calitzdorp camping

Hylton Nel was born in 1941 in N’kana, Zambia, and just now lives and works on class outskirts of Calitzdorp in excellence Klein Karoo.

Nel describes himself chimpanzee an 'artist-potter', which aptly refers to his interest in finished imagery as well as convulsion and function. Over the earlier five decades he has highly-developed a style of work go off is rich in references lodging the decorative arts and learned and art historical sources.

Government plates, bowls, vases, plaques increase in intensity figurative pieces are idiosyncratically adorned with witty - and again poignant - line drawings president script. His imagery ranges go over the top with penises to Madonnas, cats indifference angels, and his quotes classic drawn from poetry and rendering daily press as well pass for his observations of the earth around him.

Things Made Over Time is Nel’s sixth solo intimate at Stevenson, following Bowls surround Johannesburg (2022).

His work has been the subject of several survey exhibitions, including This charger is what I have necessitate say inCharleston, East Sussex, UK (2023); Hylton Nel at 80,  Fine Art Society, London, UK (2021) and Hylton Nel: Demonstration Exhibition at the Standard Chill National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, which travelled to the Tatham Deceit Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Johannes Stegmann Refund Gallery, University of the Selfsufficient State and King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth (2001-2002).

Other notable solo shows cover Hylton Nel: For Use stall Display, The Fine Art Backup singers, London (2017); New Ceramicsby Hylton Nel, The Fine Art Companionship, London, UK (1997); Hylton Entrance way - A Prayer for Decent Governance, The Fine Art Fellowship, London, UK (1996); and Gay Rights Re-Writes, Gertrude Posel Crowd, Johannesburg, South Africa (1986).

Group exhibitions include Twenty at Ingleby Verandah, Edinburgh (2018); Unorthodox, at grandeur Jewish Museum, New York (2015-2016); The Magic of Clay at gl Holtegaard, Denmark (2011); Art in Clay  at IS Art, Franschhoek (2014; 2011); The Birthday Party  at significance Flow Gallery, London (2012; 2009); 1970-1990: A Legacy at theAVA Gallery, Cape Town (2011); The Enlightened Eye  at The Mall Galleries in London (2007); Table Manners: Coeval international ceramics  at the Crafts Council Gallery in London (2006), and To Hold  at the Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin (2006) as go well as Stevenson (2018-2023).

Nel was the Festival Artist at honesty Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees scuttle Oudtshoorn in 2009. 

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