All the Birds I have Seen 100 x 160cm acrylic on canvas 2022

Diana Hyslop

Bio

Biography

BIOGRAPHY
Largely informed by comics and film Diana Hyslop’s work explores magic realism, dream imagery and the quirkiness of human nature. She is interested in the duality of existence. Her work is emotionally and intuitively inspired and one of the themes she often uses revolves around issues of security and insecurity, which works both on a political and personal level
Diana Hyslop was a permanent artist at the Bag Factory Artist’s Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2002 till 2020. In her mid twenties she worked for Marvel Comics in London and on her return to Johannesburg she worked on documentaries and features in the film industry. In the late eighties she studied at Bill Ainslie’s now legendary Johannesburg Art Foundation. In 1994 she worked at the Santa Monica Fine Arts Studio for eight months before returning to Johannesburg to commit full time to painting as while studying art history and painting at Unisa.
The first of her solo exhibitions was held in 1998 at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town, since then Diana has participated in numerous exhibitions locally and abroad. She has also participated in international art workshops/residencies in Iceland, France, Uruguay, Lamu, Namibia, Botswana, Nambia and Zambia.

Curriculum vita Diana Hyslop P.O. Box 52414, Saxonwold 2132, Johannesburg Tel: 083-468-0477 dianahyslop@connectit.co.za www.dianahyslop.com Selected Solo Shows 2017 Fried Gallery Pretoria 2009 Everard Read Gallery- Johannesburg 2004 Bag Factory Studios – Johannesburg 2002 Millennium 2 Gallery- Johannesburg 1998 AVA Gallery – Cape Town Selected Group Shows 2021 Turbine Art Fair – IBI Art – Johannesburg Gallery Two – Johannesburg 2020 Rust en Vrede ‘Women who Read’ -Cape Town Turbine Art Fair – IBI Art and Bag Factory -Johannesburg Bag Factory End of Year – Johannesburg 2019 Absa Gallery ‘Tete a Tete -Johannesburg Turbine Art Fair Latitudes –LL Editions 2018 WAM – LL Editions “The Art of Lithography” Johannesburg UJ Gallery ‘Trans’ Johannesburg Feast Your Eyes Spier Arts London Turbine Art Fair 2017 Moorhouse Gallery Franschoek Circa Everard Read Cape Town Turbine Art Fair JHB Art Fair- LL Editions, Bag Factory, MK&Artists 2016 Bag Factory ‘Foundations and Futures’ – 25th year exhibition AGOG Gallery ‘Curiositas’ Johannesburg Moorhouse Gallery‘’Playground’ Franschoek Everard Read Winter Show ‘Cape Town’ Turbine Art Fair JHB Art Fair Imago Mundi (Benneton) Pratt Institute New York 2015 Imago Mundi (Benetton Collection) Foundazioni Cini Venice Catalogue Everard Read Cape Town – Homage Everard Read Cape Town – Winter Show Turbine Art Fair JHB Art Fair 2014 Fried Contemporary ‘Capital’ Pretoria Everard Read ‘Summer Show’ Cape Town Bag Factory ‘Controversial Ways of Seeing Johannesburg Catalogue Johannesburg Art Fair Turbine Art Fair Intoto ‘Menagerie’ Johannesburg Intoto ‘Gold Rush’ Johannesburg 2013 Everard Read/IBI Art ‘Translations’ Johannesburg CAMAC ‘Entre-Nous’Marnay-sur-Seine, France Johannesburg Art Fair Turbine art Fair Johannesburg Erdmann Gallery “A Drawn Conclusion” Cape Town NorthWest University Botanical Gardens Gallery Potchefstroom 2012 Queen Street Gallery – Sydney Australia Zurich Art Fair – Erdmann Contemporary Switzerland Johannesburg Art Fair – Erdmann Contemporary, Bag Factory Bag Factory 21st Exhibition Johannesburg Art Gallery Artist Proof‘Coming of Age’ Intoto Gallery “Translations 2” Johannesburg Catalogue 2011 Erdmann Contemporary “Altered Landscape and the Narrative Portrait” Cape Town Johannesburg Art Fair – “20 Fine Years Bag Factory and Artist Proof Studios” Everard Read Gallery “Horse” Johannesburg Catalogue Erdmann Contemporary, “Present History” Cape Town Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Catalogue 2010 Standard Bank Gallery, ‘Translations’ Johannesburg Catalogue Everard Read “View of the South” Johannesburg Everard Read “View of the South@ Cape Town Johannesburg Art Fair – Artists Proof Art on Main – Corporate Art 2009 Everard Read Cape “Sex, Power, Money” Cape Town Catalogue Bag Factory Studios “Adding Subtractions” Johannesburg Johannesburg Art Fair – Everard Read 2008 Imaaya Contemporary Gallery Mauritius Utrecht Open Art Fair – Holland Polokwane Museum “Then, Now and Beyond” Catalogue ACE – Biarritz, France 2007 Polokwane Museum – “Double 07” Catalogue Sandton Civic Gallery “Crafting Art” Catalogue UNISA Gallery Bag Factory Show Pretoria Catalogue Alliance Francaise – Liza Nicole Show Johannesburg 2004 Market Theatre Gallery “I.D.” Johannesburg 2001 Millennium Gallery 11, launch show, Johannesburg Gaborone Museum, Botswana 1995 Biennial Fringe Show, Megamusic, Johannesburg 1996 Merit award Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Art Competition Residencies and workshop 2015 Insaka – Zambia 2013 CAMAC – France 2012 SIM – Reyjavik – Iceland 2011 Cruces – Montevideo – Uruguay 2008 Tulipamwe – Nambia 2006 Kuona – Lamu, Kenya 2001 Thapong – Gaborone, Botswana 2000 Tupelo International – Cape Town 1993 Santa Monica Fine Arts Studio – California

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