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Edendale Excels booklet

Edendale Excels, an exhibition to celebrate four artists from Edendale, near Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, shows some changes and developments in South African art. This introduction is an attempt at making learners aware of the diversity of issues tackled by these artists. The inclusion of Bhengu and Zondi in the academic syllabus demonstrates the value of their contribution to the changing South African Visual Arts Studies.

Tatham Art Gallery Outline

The Tatham Art Gallery publishes a programme called the Outline. Below are articles from the Outline starting with the most current.

Outline - September to December 2008

• Curriculum Curricula: Works Relevant to the Matric Art Syllabus
• Tapestries Telling Stories: Celebrating Change
• Garret Artists' Retrospective: Drawing for twenty years
• Tim Quirke: Drawings and Paintings
• John Soderlund: Found Objects
• Ardmore Ceramic Studio: HIV/AIDS Exhibition

Outline - January to April 2008

• From the Director's desk
• New Acquisitions Exhibition
• Edendale Excels - a celebration of four artists from Edendale

Outline - September to December 2007

• From the Director's desk
• Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe Revisited Exhibition extended
• White boys on death, war and love exhibition
• Reuben Ndwandwe Memorial Exhibition
• Mandalas, Memories and Magic Circles - Jutta Faulds exhibition
• ECHO Craft Bazaar 2007
• Education - Artists' Forum, Art Classes and Workshops
• FOTAG Clear the Clutter

FOTAG Focus Articles

For a number of years The Witness newspaper has published articles by FOTAG members. These articles, called FOTAG Focus discuss artworks from the collection on display.

These Focus articles are now published in the monthly Witness supplemental Life.

Extracts from Tatham Art Gallery Publications

The Tatham Art Gallery publishes catalogues, pamphlets, postcards and other material in order to promote art and disseminate information.

Ndaleni Art School, a Retrospective
This catalogue accompanied an exhibition researched and curated by Juliette Leeb-du Toit and Annalise Kockott in 1999.

Ubumba, aspects of indigenous ceramics in KwaZulu-Natal
This catalogue accompanied an exhibition held at the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg and the Durban Art Gallery in 1998.

Derek Milton Leigh (1940 - 1993) A Memorial Exhibition
This catalogue accompanied a memorial exhibition for Derek Milton Leigh held at the Tatham Art Gallery and Durban Art Gallery in 1994 and 1995.

Catalogue of the Whitwell and General Collection
This catalogue (published in the 1960s) date from a time when the collection was still housed and displayed in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall.

Tatham Art Gallery Newsletter

Articles from the Tatham Art Gallery Newsletter published from 1984

Tatham Art Gallery Newsletter 1984 No 2

• Curator's Notes
• The Pietermaritzburg Mural Competition

Tatham Art Gallery Newsletter 1986 No 2

• Curator's Notes - Housing the Cape Town Triennial

Tatham Art Gallery Newsletter 1990 No 1

• Tatham loses its purchasing power

Tatham Art Gallery articles on other websites

Links to articles on the Tatham Art Gallery hosted on other websites. These links will open in a new window.

• Transforming the 'White Giant Building' - Gavin Anderson
• Transforming the 'White Giant Building': The Tatham's director responds - Brendan Bell
• The Tatham Art Gallery Victorian Collection: The End of Colonial Art? - Brendan Bell
• Who is in and who is out? The process of re-writing South African art history in the 1990s - Sabine Marschall