Judith Mason

Judith Mason, born Judith Seelander Menge on 10 October 1938 in Pretoria, is a South African artist who has created oil paintings, graphics, mixed media and tapestries, rich in symbolism and mythology, and displaying a rare technical virtuosity.

Contents 1 Education and career 2 Exhibitions 3 Publications 4 Select Collections in South Africa 5 Select Collections Abroad 6 Personal life 7 References 8 External links

Education and career

Judith Mason matriculated at the Pretoria High School for Girls in 1956. She was awarded a BA Degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1960. She taught painting at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Pretoria, the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, Italy from 1989-91 and acted as external examiner for under-graduate and post-graduate degrees at Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Natal, Stellenbosch and Cape Town Universities. Several of Mason's works deal with the atrocities uncovered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.^[1]

Exhibitions

She has exhibited frequently in South Africa, with works in all the major South African art collections as well as in private and public collections in Europe and the United States. She has held exhibitions in Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Chile, West Germany, Switzerland and the USA.

Her public commissions have included large tapestries in collaboration with Marguerite Stephens and recently, stained-glass window designs for the Great Park Synagogue in Johannesburg. Her first solo exhibition was at Gallery 101, Johannesburg, in 1964 after winning second prize in the U.A.T competition in 1963. Since then she has exhibited regularly in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Stellenbosch and George Goodman Gallery, Chelsea Gallery, Association of Arts Pretoria, Association of Arts Cape Town, Hout Street Gallery, Strydom Gallery, Dorp Street Gallery, Art on Paper, Karen Mackerron Gallery, as well as lithographs, oil paintings and drawings at Ombondi Gallery in New York in 1990. She represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale, 1966, São Paulo Biennale 1973, Brazil, Valparaiso Biennale 1979, Chile and Houston Arts Festival 1980, USA.

Publications

• A Dante Bestiary (Ombondi Editions, NY, 1990) Printed by Bruce Attwood, The Broederstroom Press.
• Selected Poems by Patrick Cullinan, 1992, Artists' Edition printed by Mark Attwood, The Artists' Press.
• Talking Pictures Essays printed and published by the Broederstroom Press, 1989.
• Mixed media portfolio in collaboration with poet Ted Townsend.

Select Collections in South Africa

South African National Gallery, Cape Town George IV Gallery, Port Elizabeth Durban Art Museum Ann Bryant Museum, East London, Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg William Humphries Gallery, Kimberley Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria Rembrandt Foundation, Pretoria, Johannesburg Art Gallery Mpumalanga Legislative Collection, Nelspruit Olievenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein Sasol

Engen Telkom SA University of South Africa Anglo American Collection Anglovaal Collection Sandton Municipal Collection, Jhb Rand Afrikaans University Constitutional Court, Jhb[2] JCI Collection Gertrude Posel Gallery

Select Collections Abroad

• University of St John, Newfoundland, USA
• The Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK
• Yale University, USA ^[3]

Personal life

Was married to Professor Revil Mason, former head of the Archaeology Department University of the Witwatersrand, with two daughters, Tamar (1966) and Petra (1970).

References

External links

• Official Artist Site

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