ABOUT JOHAN ANGUS

Johan Angus graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Information Design before being active in the design industry for several years until he decided to become a full time artist.
His paintings are studies of people, mostly from difficult backgrounds. The honesty of both their emotions, as well as their physical appearance, confront the viewer in a very direct way. The subjects are placed in a neutral background to emphasize these characteristics and in some way to give them a moment of importance – where they can be acknowledged by a society that would ordinarily pass them by.

Johan’s hope is that the viewer will experience the work, rather than necessarily just view and analyze it.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003    SHU GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2002    ARTS CAPE THEATRE, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

1999    GLOBE GALLERY, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA

1997      TWO PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019    ‘A SMALLER SCALE’, EBONY/CURATED, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2015      WIID DESIGN, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2010      IART GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2010      GROUP EXHIBITION, LONDON, UK

2008      IART GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2008      ST GEORGE’S HILL ESTATE, LONDON, UK

2007      IART GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2006      KLEIN KAROO NASIONALE KUNSTEFEES (KKNK), OUTSHOORN, SOUTH AFRICA

2006      ART ON VIEW, SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

2006      AVA (ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTS), CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2006      WELGEMEEND OPSTAL, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2006      IART GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2005      WELGEMEEND OPSTAL, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2005      ST GEORGES HILL GOLF ESTATE, LONDON, UK

2005      34 ON LONG, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2004      EVERARD READ GALLERY, GAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA

2002      KNYSNA FINE ART GALLERY, KNYSNA, SOUTH AFRICA

2002      STELLENBOSCH GALLERY, STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA

2001      KNYSNA FINE ART GALLERY, KNYSNA, SOUTH AFRICA

2000      BANG THE-GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

2000      HOUT BAY GALLERY, SOUTH AFRICA

1996      ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUS EXHIBITION, UNITED NATIONS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, GRAND COMOROS,

AWARDS

1990      RUNNER UP IN THE NATIONAL SDSA/SABS DESIGN STUDENT AWARD.

1990      OBTAINED SECOND PLACE IN THE NATIONAL ART OF DESIGN 1990 COMPETITION

COLLECTIONS

VARIOUS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS LOCALLY AND ABROAD