The only way to achieve the impossible, is to believe it’s possible. C.S. Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
17 SEPTEMBER 2015
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3 Since its establishment in 2012 The Click Foundation has continued to evolve, expanding its reach to over 12,500 learners in 64 environments. ArtAngels has played a fundamental role in allowing us to achieve this growth and deliver on our vision of the use of technology in education, through teaching learners to read and communicate in English at an age-appropriate level. The Reading Eggs programme has proved to be a fun way of engaging learners, whilst also allowing them to feel comfortable with the use of technology.
Through the money raised over the years we have bought, inter alia, 323 computers. This has enabled us to grow in current environments, saturate environments where possible and replace troublesome old hardware to maximise the programme’s effectiveness.
From 2012 to 2014 the Grade 5 English Annual National Assessments (ANAs) in our three Mpumalanga partner schools improved 204% compared with the national improvement of 57%. This means that the rate of improvement in our Mpumalanga partner schools, after two years on the programme, is 260% above the national rate of improvement.
This year we have introduced our own online evaluation tool that has been used to test all Grade 1’s and will be expanded across the Foundation phase over the next two years. We will also be launching our bespoke management system that will allow us to seamlessly report, and make data-driven and well-informed decisions.
All the above has been achieved with a small team at Click Foundation and the facilitators in our environments. We will be increasing our capacity in the field by the end of the year, in line with our growth plans.
Our intention for 2016 is to double our current numbers by saturating the current partners, working with our current partners in new environments and adding strategic new partners.
4 NUMBER OF LEARNERS GROWTH OF LEARNERS PER REGION SINCE INCEPTION
14,000 PREDICTED 2015
AUGUST 2015 12,857
7,493 2014
2,903 2013
865 2012 3 4 0 8 6 8 3 3 23 00 6 86 , , , , 202 9 45 526 2 4 2 1
JOBS NUMBER OF TEACHERS Y R 1 2 3 4 5 6-9 CREATED ENVIRONMENTS TRAINED ER S LEARNERS BY UR GRADE
53 64 183 N 5 AUCTION ITEMS
What an idea. What a mad, crazy wonderful idea. C.S. Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
6 BONNIE WALTERS
Sophiatown – The Dance had just Begun, 2007
Charcoal and pastel on paper
65 x 80 cm
Estimated value: R24,000 – R28,000
Donated by the artist
Bonnie Walters was born in Springs, matriculated in Bloemfontein and achieved a BA (English and Psychology) at Stellenbosch University. After careers in advertising, finance and property she acquired a BTech honours (cum laude) at Wits Tech, now University of Johannesburg, in 2001.
After lecturing in drawing at Wits Tech, Bonnie became a full-time artist in 2006. She lives and works in Johannesburg and is currently on sabbatical from doing her Masters degree in Fine Arts. She successfully curates her own solo exhibitions and participates in joint exhibitions - including Jaco Sieberhagen - and GIBS Charity Auctions.
Initially Bonnie’s work was informed by rich and conflicting childhood memories including her formative years in a mining town, family holidays in multi-cultural Schweizer Reneke and the small Karoo town of Laingsburg. Her works are ambivalent: they often deal with and express personal memories and inner longings, or they awaken in the viewers their own lived experiences. Bonnie’s work shows great skill and confidence that can only be achieved through a prolific work ethic and all-consuming commitment.
Her art is held in private collections both in South Africa (including Ellerman House Contemporary) and internationally.
7 BAMBO SIBIYA
Happy Times, 2015 Charcoal and water colour 92 x 160 cm (unframed)
Estimated value: R19,000 – R22,000 Donated by the artist
Bambo Sibiya completed a Design certificate at Benoni Technical College in 2005 and, together with a friend, opened a small graphic design business. In 2008 he was offered a full bursary to Artist Proof Studio.
As a student Sibiya was encouraged to develop his personal content through cultural and art-historical research as well as by participating in social advocacy programmes.
He began to etch poignant compositions of poverty in his local community. His subsequent themes, based loosely on the experience of his mother, led to an accomplished series concerning single mothers as heads of their households. Bambo lived with a culture of alcoholism, growing up amidst the breakdown of his own family structure. Many of his prints depict mothers as the most elevated figures in his compositions, conveying the message that despite hardship and unemployment, women still manage to find ways to feed their families, nurture and protect their children and keep their families in relative security.
He has received a number of awards including the Gerald Sekoto Award for the most promising artist in the 2012 L’Atelier art competition and the Arts and Culture Trust Award 2012.
8 LIONEL SMIT
Source #4, 2015 Digital print on archival paper, hand finished with indian ink 173 x 125 cm Edition 5 of 12
Estimated value: R41,000 – R47,000 Donated by the artist
Lionel Smit was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1982. He started developing and exhibiting straight after art school at Pro Arte Alphen Park. Smit is best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvasses and sculptures.
Smit is considered one of South Africa’s youngest investment artists. He exhibits locally and abroad and is currently showing at art fairs in Amsterdam, Germany, India, Miami, Monaco, London and Hong Kong.
Over the past ten years he has established a substantial international following with collectors ranging from the Standard Chartered Bank to Laurence Graff Art Collection at Delaire Graff Estate.
One of Smit’s paintings has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, where it was chosen as the ‘face’ of the BP Portrait Award 2013. He was recently honoured with a Ministerial Award from the Department of Culture for Visual Art and a highlight of his career has been the publication of one of his paintings on the cover of Christie’s Auction Catalogue.
9 DIANE VICTOR
Marakana - System Devolution , 2014 Etching, digital print and ash 56 x 67 cm (unframed) Artist proof of edition of 20
Estimated value: R7,500 – R10,000
Donated by the artist
Diane Victor received her BA Fine Arts Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg with a major in Printmaking. In addition to graduating with distinction and winning various awards, Victor also became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Volkskas Atelier Award in 1988. Since 1990, Victor has been a part-time lecturer, teaching drawing and printmaking, at various South African institutions.
Victor prefers imagery to words and the strength of her visual eloquence hits one in the gut and takes one’s breath away. Her work examines the underbelly of society and our lives with an extraordinary intensity and yet the marks that she makes are exquisitely beautiful.
Diane Victor has won numerous awards and has exhibited widely within South Africa and overseas including at the 2015 South African Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale. Her work is in leading South African corporate, state and private collections as well as in international collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
10 LIBERTY BATTSON
50% of your happiness is determined by day-to-day behavior and even more so if you sit upright and don’t slouch, 2015 2K automotive paint on canvas 70 x 120 cm 24.97% Of this one is brushstroke, 2015 2K automotive paint on canvas 70 x 70 cm
Estimated value: R24,000 – R27,500 Donated by the artist
Liberty Battson was born and raised in Benoni, South Africa. She matriculated from St. Dunstan’s College in 2009 and graduated with a BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2013.
Battson has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Most recently, she was named the winner of the ABSA L’Atelier Awards 2014 which saw her complete a 6 month residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts this year. Her artworks feature in the Telkom, Sasol and Ellerman House art collections.
“I love stripes,” she enthuses. “I love Modernism and abstraction… It’s searching for the truth. Stats are presented as a form of the truth, but I am trying to play with the boundaries. This work is part of a series called Sidesplitting, so funny that it makes you get a pain in your side. I wanted to created art that represented joy - looking inward I recognised my optimism and passion and I wanted to share it.”
11 ANGUS TAYLOR
Composite Portrait, Researched (III), 2015 Belfast granite, stainless steel and solidified with concrete Edition 6 of 12
Estimated value: R155,000 – R176,000 Donated by the artist
Angus Taylor (born 1970) is known in South Africa and abroad for his powerful, often large, works of sculpture, characterised by outstanding craftsmanship. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Pretoria which bestowed an Alumni Laureate on him in 2005.
In 1997, he founded his own undertaking, Dionysus Sculpture Works, where he casts his own and other sculptors work, and nurtures the talent of young and developing artists. In addition to numerous solo and group shows, Taylor is predominantly involved in national and local government, as well as private sector, large-scale commission.
Characteristically, Taylor currently incorporates large pieces of granite in his work, which he sources from locations such as Belfast and Rustenburg.
Taylor designed many key elements of the Ellerman House Wine Gallery, including the granite floors, a terroir wall made up of soil samples from 100 wine farms, a monolithic bar counter, the 13 stone steps that lead to the underground cellar, and the tasting counter in the Champagne cellar.
12 FRIKKIE EKSTEEN
Hollow Men VIII, 2014 - 5 Oil and inkjet print on canvas 84 x 46 cm
Estimated value: R29,000 – R34,000 Donated by the artist
A graduate in the town of his birth, Frikkie Eksteen completed his Masters degree at the University of Pretoria in 2000. His work has received both local and international attention on prominent group exhibitions and has garnered awards at the ABSA L’Atelier, SASOL New Signatures and Spier Contemporary competitions. His most recent solo exhibition was Eremozoic / Era of Solitude at the KKNK National Arts Festival in Oudtshoorn in 2015.
Formerly a permanent lecturer in fine art and multimedia at UNISA, Eksteen currently lectures part-time at the University of Pretoria. His work is principally concerned with the interface between portrait painting and computer imaging and is represented in the Pretoria Art Museum, University of Pretoria, UNISA, SASOL, ABSA and MTN permanent collections.
13 BRUCE BACKHOUSE
Karoo preserved series: Wide Landscape I, 2013 Oil on canvas 50 X 150 cm
Estimated value: R42,000 – R48,000 Donated by the artist
Bruce Backhouse is a full-time artist based in Johannesburg. Born in 1950, he studied fine art at Rhodes University and gained work experience as an Art Director and Creative Director at ad agencies in South Africa for 25 years. He became a full-time artist in 2004 and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015 as part of the Luciano Benetton Small Canvasses Project. Backhouse focuses primarily on landscapes, executed in watercolour and oil. Although versatile in figural satires, he is concerned primarily with the contemporary South African landscape. He believes that the average South African landscape has been over exploited to a point where it is no longer visually challenging to either post-modern artist or viewer. In trying to review this genre, his aim is to make people question and think differently about landscape, being a journey for both artist and viewer.
14 MARCO CIANFANELLI
Untitled (Vertical Figure 3), 2014 Laser-cut mild steel with rust patina 45 x 13 x 9 cm
Estimated value: R30,500 – R36,000
Donated by the artist
Marco Cianfanelli was born in Johannesburg in 1970 and graduated, with a distinction in Fine Art, from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992. He has had several solo exhibitions and has won numerous awards, including the ABSA L’Atelier and Ampersand Fellowship. He is a member of the design team for The Freedom Park, South Africa’s national monument to freedom, situated in Pretoria. The inauguration of his monumental fragmented portrait sculpture, Capture, symbolically marked the 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s capture at the site in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Cianfanelli’s work can be found in public and private collections in South Africa, Europe and the United States. Marco Cianfanelli works across the public and private realms, engaging the world in terms of systems rather than discrete objects or fenced off territories. He realises art where one doesn’t expect to find it and tests the possibilities for artistic intervention in the public realm. He has been involved in a wide range of projects involving art, architecture and public space.
15 SAM NHLENGETHWA
Starting a Day, 2011 Mixed media 118 x 115 cm
Estimated value: R120,000 – R145,000
Donated by the artist
Sam Nhlengethwa was born in Springs, South Africa in 1955 and currently lives and works in Johannesburg. In 1978 Nhlengethwa received a fine art diploma from Rorke’s Drift Art Centre in Natal. After graduating he taught part-time at the Federative Union of Black Artists (FUBA) in Johannesburg. Currently FUBA provides instruction in music, singing, fine arts and theatre for more than 3,000 children every month.
Once seen as one of South Africa’s leading resistance artists, Nhlengethwa has grown from this and adjusted the style and content of his works to explore other themes such as music, specifically jazz and the mechanics of everyday living. He works with found printed images from posters and magazines, including his recollections of township life in his imagery. Nhlengethwa was urban-born and therefore relates intimately to township existence, not only in his collages but also in his prints.
Nhlengethwa has received various prestigious awards throughout his career.
16 WAYNE BARKER
Bubble Trouble Bubble, 2013 Oil on canvas 27 X 20 cm
Estimated value: R22,500 – R27,000 Donated by the artist
Wayne Cahill Barker was born in Pretoria, South Africa and was awarded a Diploma in Fine Art from the Pretoria Technikon in 1981, followed by a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Michaelis at the University of Cape Town in 1984. Barker pursued postgraduate studies in Luminy, Marseille in the late 90s at the École des Beaux Arts and was a Merit award winner at the Volkskas Atelier twice.
Images on Metal, Barker’s first solo exhibition was shown in 1987 at the Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg. Following this, Barker became known for his deconstruction of JH Pierneef’s landscapes, a subversion of apartheid and the Afrikaner nationalism implicit in the landscapes. The late Professor Alan Crump said of Barker’s work, “It was visionary and loaded with a plethora of socio-political and cultural inversions. At that time only a courageous and committed artist would have attempted such accusations.”
Barker is fast becoming locally and internationally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost artists.
17 LYNETTE TEN KROODEN
Oerdelta, 2015 Gold leaf and oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Estimated value: R33,000 – R38,500 Donated by the artist
Lynette ten Krooden is a fulltime artist with B.A. Fine arts credentials from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. For 13 years she lectured at the Tshwane University of Technology and is currently a guest lecturer at the University of Pretoria.
Lynette is an academic and world-class traveller, having left her footprints over the patterned lava rocks of South Africa; from Petra (Jordan) to Timbuktu, the Sahara desert to the Fiji Islands. Her excursions reveal her awareness of time as an agent of change, information and the fragility of mankind.
She has held 35 solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows both locally and internationally. Her work is represented in numerous corporate and private collections and her commissions stretch from the Fiji Islands to the Middle East.
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