Thelma van Rensburg
Thelma van Rensburg's work explores female sexuality and how women are represented in the mass media concerning beauty or ugliness, issues of otherness and the Gaze. Her art making process is adventurous - ranging from mixed media, painting and drawing to digital work.
Throughout her work, van Rensburg aims to portray the masks that women use in order to be accepted by the contemporary society. These masks become an alternative "skin', distorting one's identity". In 2013 she started working with the female form as abject and grotesque to subvert fetishized representations of women in fashion photography. This interest progressed in her Masters research when she came upon a proliferation of fashion spreads that depicted women in passive states, such as dead or dying as pioneered by the French fashion photographer, Guy Bourdin. Her dissertation offers a feminist critique of the representation of women in the media and the partially biased construction of femininity. The focus is on the representation of women in contemporary fashion photography and visual texts, and specifically the way in which a link is constructed between femininity and death.
Van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969. Van Rensburg always had an interest in art, but did not pursue it as a career until 2004. She has a B.A Honours degree in Physical education and Psychology. In 2004 she decided to enroll for a B.Tech degree in Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology which she completed in 2007. In 2013 she re-enrolled at the University of Pretoria for the final year of the BA degree in Fine Arts and completed the year cum laude. In 2016 she completed a Masters of Arts degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, titled Uneasy bodies, femininity and death: Representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks.
Since graduating, she has participated in eight solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout South Africa. Her work has featured in prestigious competitions such as Sasol New Signatures, Thami Mnyele Fine Arts awards and the Sanlam Vuleka Arts competition. She also attended three artist residencies in Berlin and Mexico from 2015 to 2018.
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Thelma van Rensburg
"I exist in multiples I"
Digital print on paper (edition of 5)
18.5cm x 23cm
R 1 590 (framed)
R 1 090 (unframed)
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Thelma van Rensburg
"I exist in multiples II"
Digital print on paper (edition of 5)
18.5cm x 23cm
R 1 590 (framed)
R 1 090 (unframed)
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Thelma van Rensburg
"I exist in multiples V"
Digital print on paper (edition of 5)
18.5cm x 23cm
R 1 590 (framed)
R 1 090 (unframed)
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Thelma van Rensburg
"I exist in multiples VIII"
Digital print on paper (edition of 5)
18.5cm x 23cm
R 1 590 (framed)
R 1 090 (unframed)
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