Artist
Penny Siopis
b. 1953 · South African
Penny Siopis works across painting, found film and installation to examine race, gender, colonialism, trauma and memory. Her materially dense early paintings of cakes and domestic surfaces later gave way to fluid ink-and-glue works and archival film.
Painting; film; installation
Major Works
- 1986Melancholia →
- 1988Patience on a Monument: A History Painting →
- 1980sCake Paintings →
- 1990sPinkys →
- 2002–05Shame series →
- 2010Obscure White Messenger →
- 2011Communion →
- 1997Will →
- 2010sWarm Waters →
- 2000s onwardInk and Glue Paintings →
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
