Curriculum Vitae

Museum Representation

SOUTH AFRICA

• Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
• Ellerman House, Bantry Bay, Cape Town

GERMANY

• Glasmuseum Lette, Ernestine Stifftung, Lette
• Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau
• Glasmuseum Hadamar, Hadamar

USA

• Corning Museum of Glass, Corning N.Y.

Memberships

• Glass Art Society, International
• Association of Arts, Pretoria, South Africa
• Friends of the South African National Gallery, South Africa
• Glasspool e.V., Germany
• Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk, Germany

Gallery Representation

• Bellart Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• Schürenberg Kunsthandel, Aachen, Germany
• Chesterfield Gallery, New York, NY USA
• The Edge Glass Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• Ebony, Franschhoek, South Africa
• Dawid M. Ras, Johannesburg

Awards, Acknowledgements & Publications

2021

• edg2020 Gallery, Launch Exhibition – Viewing through a lens

2020

• University of Johannesburg, The Pandemic Project

2019

• Corning Museum of Glass, USA – Pocket Lens, Contemporary Glass Collection
• Glasmuseum Frauenau, Germany – Skull – Lion, Contemporary Glass Collection
• Glasmuseum Lette, Germany – Dot #1, Contemporary Glass Collection
• Artsy – Published works with Bellart Galley, Vienna
• Elected Committee Member of the Association of Arts, Pretoria 2019-2020

2018

• New Glass Now, 40th Anniversary of New Glass Review, Publication and exhibition of juried works at the Corning Museum of Glass, USA (May 2019 – January 2020)
• Arts & Crafts Design Award – Online juried publication
• Elected Committee Member of the Association of Arts, Pretoria 2018-2019

2017

• New Glass Review 38, Schiesheim Session,Annual Juried publication of International Glass Art, Corning Museum of Glass, USA
• Elected Committee Member of the Association of Arts, Pretoria 2017-2018

2016

• Pretoria Art Museum’s new acquisitions and permanent collection with There’s an Animal in here…
• Glass Art, 112 Contemporary International Artists by Barbara Purchia and E. Ashley Rooney, published by Schiffer Books
• Lothar Böttcher, Artist: Selected Work 2016 by Lothar Böttcher and in the collection of the Rakow Research Library, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA
• Donation of Prismatic Gadget to the Glass Art Society’s Auction at the GAS Conference, Corning, USA

2015

• Aesthetica Magazine – Inspector
• Arts & Crafts Design Award – Online publication

2014

• Glasmuseum Hadamar, Germany – Glass Vuvuzela and beaded carry case.

2011

• New Glass Review 32, Annual Juried publication of International Glass Art, Corning Museum of Glass, USA

2010

• Bonhams – South African and Modern African Art Auction, VuvuAfrica (Glass Vuvuzela in beaded wire case)
• Publication of work in Best of Worldwide Glass Artists book

2007

• ABSA L’Atelier Competition 2007, Top 10 Finalist

2004

• FNB Vita Craft Now, Bus Factory, Newtown, Jhb. – Bronze award

2002

• Internationaler Glaskunstpreis 2002, Rheinbach, Germany, 3rd Place Award
• Publication of work in Neues Glas/New Glass Magazine

Recent Group Exhibitions

2021

• edg2020 Gallery, Launch, Midrand
• Annual Members Exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

2020

• The Pandemic Project, an online collaboration with the University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture and UJ Choir
• Around the World in 80 Days, Waldmuseum Zwiesel, Germany
• Affordable Art Exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria
• Annual Members Exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria
• “Ist das noch Kunsthandwerk?”, Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf, Germany
• “Beyond”, group exhibition by M Dawid Ras, Sandton, South Africa

2019

• SculptX 2019, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg
• Ibiza Art Fair 2019, Santa Eulalia del Rio, Ibiza (Bellart Gallery, Vienna)
• Bellart collection, Bellart Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• Grit & Wheels, Schiesheim, Germany
• Star Sailors, 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, The Viewing Room, Brooklyn, Pretoria
• New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
• VitroFestival Romont, Vitromusée, Romont, Switzerland (Bellart Gallery, Vienna)
• World Art Day, Association of Arts, Pretoria
• Murmurs Of Earth, Art On Avenues, Somerset West
• Blow Your Sculpture, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria (Curator & Participant)
• Annual Members Exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

2018

• See Art – Contemporary Drawing, Gallery 2, Johannesburg. Curated by Derek Zietsman.
• Back to the Future – Contemporary Glass Inspired by the Past, Association of Arts, Pretoria. (Curator & Participant)
• Individual Voices, Art Box Gallery, Pretoria. A group exhibition of TUT Alumina curated by Jan van der Merwe.
• The Spring Art Collective, Mall of Africa, Johannesburg. Curated by Julie Miller Art Institute.
• SculptX, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg Indestructible, Trent Gallery, Pretoria. Curated by Anna Liebenberg.
• In The Forests Of The Night, Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg
• Assumption, Trent Gallery, Pretoria. Curated by Anna Liebenberg.
• Snake Eyes 3.0, in collaboration with Christo Niemandt, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. Curated by Found Collective.
• See Art – Contemporary Abstract, Gallery 2, Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood, Johannesburg. Curated by Derek Zietsman
• Annual Members Exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

2017

• Stable 2017, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg
• Material +Form, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr- Grenzhausen, Germany
• The George Bizos 90th Birthday Celebration & SAHETI Scholarship Fund Artists Draw Fundraiser, Sponsored two works for fundraiser exhibition.
• 1200 Degrees Celcius, Anecdotes Gallery & Project Space, 1 Eloff St., Joziburg Lane, Johannesburg
• Lothar Böttcher & Sotiris Moldovanos, Dawid Ras Gallery, Sandhurst, Johannesburg
• Snake Eyes 2.0, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom. Curated by Found Collective and collaborated with Christo Niemandt.
• SculptX, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg
• Art@ The Clocktower, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
• Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg. Represented by Millennium Gallery.
• See Art, Association of Arts, Pretoria, curated by Derek Zietsman.
• Glass Sculpture – Now For Something Completely Different, with Lothar Böttcher and Maxi Pretorius, Julie Miller Investment Art Institute, Mall of Africa, Midrand.
• Vernissage – Group Exhibition, Moor Gallery, Franschhoek.
• Mute Wisdom, Almenkerk Wine Estate, Elgin, Western Cape. Curated by Gordon Froud

2016

• Vernissage – Group Exhibition, Moor Gallery, Franschhoek. Prime Meridian, Trent Gallery, Pretoria, curated by Anna Liebenberg.
• Emil Kováč in Action, Glass workshop and exhibition by Smelt Glass Studio and View Gallery, Norwood, Johannesburg.
• Bending Light, with Kleonicki Vanos, North West University Gallery and Aardklop National Art Festival, Potchefstroom.
• Blow Your Sculpture, Pretoria Art Museum (Cool Capital 2016)
• Blow Your Sculpture, Pretoria Botanical Gardens (Cool Capital 2016)
• Out of the Fire, Into the Light – Contemporary South African Glass Exhibition, Art Association Pretoria.
• Non-Place, Moor Gallery, Franschhoek, curated by Elfriede Dreyer
• Beyond the Limit – Sculptural Glass, St. Lorient Fashion & Art Gallery, Brooklyn, Pretoria
• Glass Art Society Conference, Corning, NY, USA – Donated work for Silent Auction
• 1st Jozi Inner City Courtyard Sculpture Exhibition, curated by Gordon Froud, No.1 Eloff St., Johannesburg “Liquid”, group show by Smelt Glass Studio and Friends, at View Gallery, Norwood, Johannesburg
• “it’s an artist’s prerogative!”, group exhibition, Art It Is, Johannesburg
• “Thresholds (in)between Glasses”, group show curated by Thabang Monoa for his masters degree at Art It Is, Johannesburg
• “Ad Hoc”, pop-up group show at the Mince Festival, Cullinan

2015

• FNB Collectors Lounge, Johannesburg Art Fair, curated by Dewald Prinsloo, Ebony Franschoek
• “The Games People Play”, group show curated by Gordon Froud and Yannis John Generalis, Aardklop National Art Festival, Potchefstroom.
• “Betwixt and Between”, South African Glass Artists, curated by Thabang Monoa for Aardklop National Art Festival, Potchefstroom.
• Dawid Ras, Collections a group show, Sandton, Johannesburg.
• Eclectic Group show, Halifax Art, Parkhurst, Johannesburg Jozi(Pty)Ltd., group show at Art It Is, Johannesburg
• Upcycle Chic, group show at Art It Is, Johannesburg
• Jozi Land Art, Autumn show by Site Specific Land Art, Emmarentia Botanical Gardens, Johannesburg
• “Reflections”, group show curated by the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust, Stellenbosch.

Education, Seminars, Workshops & Experience

2020

• Social Media Marketing, online short course, University of Cape Town

2019

• Glasveredlermeister, Fachrichtung Schliff, Teil I & II, Glasfachschule Zwiesel, Germany

2017

• Ngwenya Glass International Design Workshop, Ngwenya Glass, Eswatini (Swaziland). Directed by Peter Bremers (Netherlands), with Davide Salvatore (Murano, Italy) and other international master blowers.

2016

• Glass Art Society Conference, Corning N.Y., USA

2015

• Roger Ballen Photography Workshop, 1 Fox St., Johannesburg

2003

• Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA, USA

2003

• Glass Art Society Conference, Seattle, USA

2000

• Staatliche Glasfachschule Hadamar, Hadamar, Germany – Qualified as Glasveredler, Fachrichtung Schliff (Glass Cutter Journeyman)

1992 – 1997

• Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.Courses:
  • Sculpture
  • Glass
  • General & Figure Drawing
  • Printmaking
  • Photography