Award-winning portraits on exhibit
The Sanlam Portrait Award Top 40 Exhibition will be in Durban until 6 March.
DURBAN art enthusiasts can enjoy the Sanlam Portrait Award Top 40 Exhibition at the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts, Bulwer from Wednesday, 16 February to Sunday, 6 March.
The exhibition, which celebrates and showcases some of the best original portraiture in South Africa, includes the R100 000 prize-winning portrait, After the Match by artist John Pace and 39 of the top entries to the Sanlam Portrait Award.
It was KwaZulu-Natal artist Heather Gourlay-Conyngham who walked off with the top prize in the first Sanlam Portrait Award, held in 2013, for her nude male portrait entitled A Young Man. Following the Durban exhibition the Top 40 portraits, under the auspices of the Sanlam Art Collection, will tour the country.
Gallery times are Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, Saturday from 9am to 4pm and Sunday and public holidays from 10am to 3pm.
Contact Stefan Hundt, Curator Sanlam Art Collection, on stefan.hundt@sanlam.co.za or 083 457 2699 or Sumayya Rawat on gallery@kznsagallery.co.za or 031 277 1705.
