Deborah Poynton

NEWS: Deborah Poynton's latest solo exhibition took place at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban (March/April 2010). Click here to read the talk she gave at the gallery.

RECENT EXHIBITION

Everything Matters (4 June - 1 August 2009)

To Be Alone

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Untitled on Summer 2008/9: Projects (27 November 2008 - 10 January 2009)
Untitled on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
Paintings from The Grip of Circumstance (Solo exhibition at Warren Siebrits, May 2007)
Diptych on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
Paintings from What Lies Beneath (Galerie Mikael Andersen, 2006)
Safety and Security (18 January - 18 February 2006)
Recent paintings (4 August - 11 September 2004)
Earlier works

PUBLICATIONS

Deborah Poynton: Everything Matters (2009)
Deborah Poynton: Safety and Security (2006)

Click here to read an interview with the artist.

BIOGRAPHY
Deborah Poynton was born in 1970 in Durban and her youth was spent between South Africa, Britain, Swaziland and the United States. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1987 to 1989; since then she has lived and worked in Cape Town, South Africa. She has held solo exhibitions at Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, in 2006, 2004 and 2003, and at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg, in 2007. She had her first solo exhibitions in the United States, at the Savannah College of Art and Design's galleries in Savannah and Atlanta, in 2009. Group exhibitions include Von Liebeslust und Lebenslast - der inszenierte Alltag at Corvey Castle, near Höxter, Germany (2009); Family Relation at Warren Siebrits (2007); New Painting (KZNSA Gallery, Durban; Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; 2006) and What Lies Beneath at Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen (2006). Her work is in the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art in the Netherlands, among other collections. Full CV

Also see www.deborahpoynton.com