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Tatham Art Gallery

Serving Msunduzi through the Visual Arts

Collection

The Tatham Art Gallery houses a collection of significant British and French artworks dating back to the 18th century. Its South-African collection is focused on, but not exclusive to, the art of KwaZulu-Natal.

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Whitwell Collection

Donated by Colonel Whitwell this collection consists mainly of 19th and early 20th century British and French artworks including paintings, drawings, prints and objets d'art. There are also diverse pieces from Japan, China, Russia and Persia.

Bodenstein Collection

This collection includes sculptures by Michael Zondi, his brother Mandlenkosi Zondi and Asmon Mzila and clay figurines by Hezekiel Ntuli. Amongst traditional Zulu artefacts are well documented beaded Zulu loveletter necklaces.

The main body of the Tatham Art Gallery collection can be divided into a number of sections. There is a significant group of British and French work. The British group includes works from the New English Art Club artists and the Bloomsbury Group.

The collection also consists of a large number of 20th and 21st century South African art and craft works. Recently the major focus has been on collecting works by artists and crafters from KwaZulu-Natal. An effort has also been made to fill gaps in the historical South African art collection.

There are two significant aspects to the craft collection of the Tatham Art Gallery:

traditional artefacts and beadwork of Zulu, Mfengu and Xhosa origins. There are also a small number of Zimbabwean works.
a sizable collection of South African studio ceramics, including traditional Zulu pottery.

FOTAG Focus Articles

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

Peirson Collection

Works by students of the Ndaleni Art School in Richmond from the time when Lorna Peirson taught there. Mostly a collection of wooden sculptures, but includes a number of paper mâché works.

Johansson Collection

A set of 31 prints by Rorke's Drift artists all produced in the 1970s. These works were purchased by the Johanssons during the time they worked at the Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre.

Millin Collection

A collection of 199 pieces of commercial domestic ceramicware, including Linnware, Kalahariware and Luciaware.

Forsyth-Ingram Collection

Seven early 20th century paintings by the frontier artist, author and local Magistrate Joseph Forsyth-Ingram.