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.
18 ED YOUNG
Can’t Paint, 2014
Oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
Estimated value: R17,000 – R20,000
Donated by the artist
Ed Young was born in 1978 and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Since 2003, Young has presented solo exhibitions in Cape Town, Durban, Miami, Zurich and Basel. His work has also been included in various group exhibitions locally and abroad, including The Pantagruel Syndrome in 2005 during the Triennale Turin at Castello di Rivoli d’arte Contemporanea di Torino in Turin, Italy; How Contemporary Video Artists See the USA (Part I) at the Figge von Rossen Galerie in Cologne in 2006 and The Art of Failure at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel in 2007. In 2008, his work featured in Hollywood Remix at the Hayward Gallery in London and Here Once Again: Where Art and Cinema Interact, The Gallery Loop / Museum of Art, Seoul National University in South Korea. Young showed his video It’s Not Easy at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town in the same year. He also exhibited there in 2009 and 2010.
Young presented a solo installation at VOLTA9 in Basel in 2013, followed by a solo exhibition, ARCH in Cape Town. He was awarded the AiR Rote Fabrik residency facilitated by Pro Helvetia in Zurich, Switzerland that same year. In 2014, his work was included in Brave New World¦20 Years of Democracy at the Iziko South African National Gallery; KULTURPALAST in Berlin, Germany and Analogue Eye Video Art Africa at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa and later in 2015 at the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, Austria. Young recently exhibited in Towards Intersections: Negotiating Subjects, Objects and Contexts at the UNISA Art Gallery in Pretoria and Museum Africa in Johannesburg.
19 BEEZY BAILEY
Peaceman, 2015 Bronze 120 x 53 x 27 cm Edition 1 of 12
Estimated value: R185,000 - R215,000 Donated by the artist
Beezy Bailey was born in Johannesburg and received a Fine Arts degree from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London in 1986.
Bailey has exhibited in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and England, and has collaborated with a variety of world renowned artists. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the SANG, Sasol, Standard Bank and the Kunsthuis Museum collections in Germany. Furthermore he exhibited in the 2008 Cuban Biennale, the Saachti Gallery in London and and is currently exhibiting, in collaboration with Brian Eno, his sound paintings titled “the creation of sound” at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
20 DYLAN LEWIS
Torso I, 2013 Archival hahnemuhle german etching 92 x121 cm Edition 17 of 75
Estimated value: R17,000 – R20,000 Donated by the artist
Dylan Lewis was born in Johannesburg in 1964 and has emerged as one of the foremost figures in contemporary sculpture. Lewis’s work features in private collections throughout the UK, Continental Europe, United States and Australia, and he is one of only a handful of living artists to have had more than one solo auction with Christies in London.
Working within a strict self-imposed discipline of direct observation of nature, he immerses himself in his subject, sketching and sculpting ceaselessly. It is this combination of love, truth and hard work that gives shape to his powerful evocations of animal form and force.
Dylan has moved onto figurative works in the last few years, achieving the same success as with his much-loved cats. Where does animal-kind end and humankind begin? What of the wild and primitive within? In exploring these enigmas, Lewis searches wilderness, myth and ancient belief systems for inspiration, meaning and answers.
21 DENBY MEYER
Chobe River Acrylic on canvas 90 x 120 cm
Estimated value: R90,000 – R105,000 Donated by the artist
Denby Meyer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1966 and became a professional artist in the late 1990s. Perhaps her best training came from growing up in and around the studio of her father, South Africa´s foremost realist painter, John Meyer. It comes as no surprise then that she has manifested a similar penchant and aptitude for realism.
Denby Meyer’s work represents a personal view of the world that we live in, and the effect we have on it. The human stamp is to be found everywhere we look. Nowhere is untouched by mankind’s presence. The social connection with our environment, its effect on our behaviour and the manner in which we react to it leaves an indelible stain that forever changes the landscape we inhabit. Her paintings emphasise this connection. Without imposing too much, relying on her instincts and medium to explore that which unfolds, Meyer distils areas of clutter into their primal tonal values.
22 ADRIAAN DIETERICH
Adamastor, 2014 Bronze 171 x 105 x 50 cm Edition 1 of 8
Estimated value: R123,000 – R143,000 Donated by the artist
Adriaan is a 25-year-old Fine Arts degree graduate from the University of Stellenbosch, currently based in Strand. Prior to his studies at Stellenbosch he had no art education. He says: “I applied for graphic design, not knowing what the difference was between Fine Art and Visual Communication Design (VCD/Graphics). After my first year I realised that VCD was not fulfilling my urge to create things intuitively similar to when I was younger. I shifted to Fine Art.”
Two days prior to graduation, he accepted an apprenticeship under the talented eyes of Lionel Smit, where he worked from 2012-2014.
Adriaan learnt human and horse anatomy and, in 2015, started working entirely independently. He has exhibited in Art Fair Cologne and Strasborg, placed an additional two public sculptures in Stellenbosch and was taken in by Everard Read to be their youngest artist. His works are held in collections such as PPC Private Collection, Art Association of Pretoria, Modern Art Projects in Richmond and in private collections internationally.
23 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Tear & Repair 2, 2013 Digital pigment prints on archival cotton rag paper 84 x 101 cm Edition 9 of 50
Estimated value: R16,000 – R18,500 Donated by Ravi Naidoo
William Kentridge is a world-renowned South African draughtsman, filmmaker and sculptor. He first studied politics and African Studies atthe University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1973–6) before studying Fine Art at Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–8). Throughout this time he was heavily involved in theatre. His interest in theatre has continued throughout his career and clearly informs the dramatic and narrative character of his art as well as his interests in linking drawing and film.
This print depicts an evocative series of ink drawings taken from “Refuse The Hour”, the chamber opera presented as part of the Design Indaba Festival 2015 at City Hall. It shows the artist in his trademark white shirt and black pants, and South African dancer, Dada Masilo, who features in both “Refuse The Hour” and his exhibition “The Refusal of Time”.
Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1998, 2010), and the Musée du Louvre in Paris (2010). He has received numerous prestigious prizes and commendations.
24 COLBERT MASHILE
Goja Gago Jelwe Charcoal, ink and pastel on paper 107 x 80 cm
Estimated value: R40,000 – R45,000 Donated by the artist
Originally from the rural Mpumalanga province, Colbert Mashile currently lives and works in the picturesque area of Howick in Kwazulu-Natal. He is a painter and visual artist who has developed a unique iconographical language within South African art, often dealing with the mystical, mythological and archaic elements of traditional African culture and its legacy on present-day life.
Mashile’s consummate understanding and application of colour conveys metaphorical meaning and signifies the artist’s innate, organic understanding of and connection to the land and its occupants. Colour is a tool employed to evoke emotional responses and, through very considered colour combinations, the subtle manipulation of light and the sensitive insertion of visual stimuli, Mashile communicates on an instinctual level.
Mashile’s training and formative background in printmaking, is ever-present and his predisposition for graphic construction serves to integrate and anchor the disparate wanderings of the unconscious and the subconscious. Mashile’s distinctive and original work escapes typical classification and despite the inherent cultural references, the visual landscape and its inhabitants are ambiguous and intriguing beyond its local origins. From within his well-honed and individual stylistic framework, the scope of Mashile’s focus has expanded in recent years to deliver incisive political commentary and criticism.
25 DEBORAH BELL
Sphinx, 2013 Bronze 35 x 27 x 27 cm Edition 3 of 9
Estimated value: R65,000 – R75,000 Donated by the artist
Deborah Bell is one of South Africa´s most acclaimed artists, a transcendent sculptor, painter and printmaker. She received her BA (FA) (Hons) and M (FA) degrees at the University of Witwatersrand, and has been an artist working abroad and lecturer at various South African tertiary institutions including the University of the Witwatersrand.
Bell has worked with a great variety of media during her career and has collaborated on various historically important projects with her contemporaries and co-forerunners of the resistance art movement such as William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins. Her work is a highly spiritual and personal experience of mark making. Memory and the role it plays personally and in society thematically prevails throughout her body of work, from the 1980s to present. Bell’s work explores notions of Africanness and what it means to her as a South African artist. Bell lives and works between her studios in Magaliesburg and Rosebank.
26 JIMMY LAW
A Heart’s Journey, 2015 Oil on canvas 140 x 130 cm
Estimated value: R34,000 – R39,000 Donated by the artist
Jimmy Law was born in 1970 in Bloemfontein and studied Graphic Design at the Free State Technikon. After being enrolled in National Service, Law moved to Cape Town and found work at a printing company in Woodstock. Thereafter he delved in a number of diverse enterprises, including fashion design, surfboard manufacturing and comic book inking.
In 2008 Law decided to focus entirely on his painting. At first he painted in a photo realistic style and paintings took forever to complete. In December 2010 he radically changed his painting style by using only large brushes, which initiated some remarkable changes. The result was the artwork he is known for today: energetic and expressive portraits and nudes on a fairly large format in oils and acrylics.
During this time Law had his first solo exhibition at Bell-Roberts, Cape Town. He has subsequently participated in exhibitions at Chelsea House, Somerset West, Bang Gallery, Johannesburg, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town and at the University of Stellenbosch Gallery.
27 100 BOTTLES OF TOP SOUTH AFRICAN WINE & A SEVEN COURSE DINNER WITH PAIRED WINE FOR 12 PEOPLE
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This lot encompasses a seven course dinner with paired wines for 12 people in the Ellerman House Wine Gallery as well as an astounding collection of one hundred bottles of wine, selected from the farms featured on the famous Terroir Wall. Hand-selected by sommelier Manuel Caballo, the wines each represent an aspect of the diverse nature of South African terroir and will be a magnificent addition to any discerning cellar.
28 TWO NIGHTS AT THE SELINDA CAMP, BOTSWANA & TWO NIGHTS AT ROYAL CHUNDU, ZAMBIA
Estimated value: R68,200.00
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31 CHEFS
The Mad Hatter :Have I gone mad? Alice :I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are. C.S. Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
32 NEIL PERRY
Neil Perry AM is one of Australia’s most influential chefs. He has managed several quality restaurants in Australia and today concentrates on his flagship brand,the Rockpool Group, which includes Rockpool est. 1989, Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, Spice Temple Sydney and Melbourne, Rosetta Ristorante, Melbourne, and the recently opened Burger Project in Sydney’s World Square. This year, Perry’s seven restaurants have been awarded a combined total of 15 Hats in the Good Food Guide titles in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and all are featured in Gourmet Traveller’s Top 100 List, with Rockpool sitting at No 2. Perry also heads a team of seven consultants to Qantas. His team plays a pro-active role in the entire menu development process, from designing the dishes, to writing and testing the recipes, training chefs in ports all over the world as well as the cabin crew who cook and deliver the food on board. Rockpool Consulting’s work with Qantas also includes the set up and implementation of domestic Business Class menus and a stronger focus on the Qantas First and Chairman’s Lounges. Perry is author of eight cookbooks - Good Food, The Food I Love, Rockpool, Simply Asian, Balance & Harmony, Rockpool Bar & Grill, Easy Weekends and Simply Good Food - and a television presenter with regular appearances as a judge on MasterChef Australia and his own show on The Lifestyle Channel. He has a weekly food column in Good Weekend in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and contributes a monthly food column to Qantas: The Australian Way magazine and Good Food. Through Perry’s involvement in the Starlight Children’s Foundation and various other charities, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2013 for ‘significant service to the community as a benefactor of and a fundraiser for charities, and as a chef and restaurateur’. Perry’s passion and the importance he places on quality are evident in all his dishes, the business projects he undertakes, the charities he supports and the continued success his restaurants enjoy.
33 ELLERMAN HOUSE CHEFS
Executive Chef Veronica Canha-Hibbert has been with Ellerman House for over seven years and, together with her team, captures the unique spirit of South Africa in her cuisine. Before planning any menu, Veronica asks herself if she can create it better in-house before buying the product. This philosophy has transferred to her entire team of chefs, some of whom have been by her side for many years. As Veronica states, “I believe a chef is only as good as his/her team and I am fortunate to have a phenomenal team.”
Executive Sous Chef, Grant, is passionate and creative and it shows in his menus. Titus, the Sous Chef, has worked alongside Veronica for over five years. He is always smiling and makes the best Cape Malay inspired dishes. Pastry maven Liezl, is in charge of all sweet and pastry offerings in the kitchen and complimentary pantry, where you will often find Ellerman House guests indulging in a treat in the wee hours. The two Chef Tournands Nolo and Gina keep a close eye on the kitchen and are the private chefs to the Ellerman House Villlas. Jaffarie, Chad, Adelline and Fadawah the Chef de Parties are the backbone to the Ellerman House kitchen and Lloyd is a hardworking and eager Commis. Lastly Gloria, Vivian, Nyrai, Nathan and Elizabeth the kitchen porters, keep everyone in the kitchen in high spirits.
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FRESHLY SHUCKED WEST COAST OYSTERS with Lime & Green Chilli Granita or with the Traditional Lemon Wedges & Tabasco Moët & Chandon Brut Imperial NV
CAULIFLOWER BAVAROIS VERRINE with Sultana Purée and Linseed Crisps CRUDITÉS with Mushroom Soil and Cannellini Écrassé BUTTERNUT HUMMUS on Crostino with Pistachio Za’atar CHORIZO SAUSAGES with Red Pepper Ketchup PARMA HAM on Butternut Cake with Tomato Chutney Bartinney Chardonnay 2014 Tokara Directors Reserve White 2013
NEIL PERRY’S RICH AND NOBLE CONGEE Soy Chicken and Corn Congee Langoustines Congee Waterford Riesling Library Collection 2013 Hamilton Russel Vineyard Pinot Noir 2014
OSTRICH WELLINGTON with Red Onion Jam and Red Wine Jus CAPE MALAY CHICKEN AND LENTIL CURRY with Poppadoms PEA AND RICOTTA TORTELLINI with Pea Velouté Anthonij Rupert Cabernet Franc 2009 Rust en Vrede 1694 2012 Vriesenhof Grenache 2013
PISTACHIO AND RASPBERRY VERRINE INDIVIDUAL LEMON MERINGUE Selection of ÉCLAIRS DULCEY CHEESECAKE MOUSSE on a Financier Base Van Ryn Brandy 35 “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop” C.S. Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
CHARITY AUCTION 17 SEPTEMBER 2015
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