Tyrone Appollis
b. 1957, Cape Town.
Visual artist, musician and poet since the 1970s, Appollis works explore the interface between the challenges of the everyday and the limitlessness of the spirit and imagination.
Art Education
1978 - 1987: Mostly self-taught, part-time student at Community Arts Project.
Residencies
2004: Pro Helvetia Residency, Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland.
1989: Toured Europe on a British Council grant.
Exhibitions (solo)
2017: Of My Time: Tyrone Appollis, Sanlam Gallery, Bellville
2010: The Framery Gallery, Sea Point, Cape Town.
2008: These houses we live in, Irma Stern Museum, UCT, Cape Town.2006: Yesterday and Today, Sanlan Art Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.
2001: No Apologies, Association for Visual Art, Cape Town.
1997: AVA, Cape Town.
1993: Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg.
1992: Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town.
1988: South African Association of Art, Cape Town.
1982: Rocklands Library, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.
Exhibitions (group)
2016: Impressions, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
2015: Cities in motion, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
2014: Talking about Cape Town, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
2012: Social Synergy, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
2010: 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. International Museum Day, George Museum, George, South Africa.
2009: Precedents and Currents, Mayibuye Centre, UWC, Bellville, Cape Town. Decade, Sanlam Art Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.
2007: africa south, AVA, Cape Town.
2006: Self-portraits, Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town. Botaki 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Pinelands, Cape Town. Boland Kelder (with Garth Erasmus and Sophie Peters), Paarl.
2005: Botaki 2, OMAM; Botaki 3, OMAM, Cape Town.
2004: Arty milk cans, AVA, Cape Town.
2000: Itheko lokuza nethemba elitsha (A Celebration for Bringing New Hope), Bell-Roberts Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York.
1996: Cognisance, Ingqwalasela, Herkening, AVA, Cape Town.
1993: Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris. I wish you well on your way (Tribute to John Muafangejo), Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town.
1991: Cape Town Triennial, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1990: Freedom Now, Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek, Namibia.
1989: Rahmen Gallerie (with Peter Clarke and Ishmael Thyssen), Langei, Germany.
1988: Artists against Apartheid, Luxurama Theatre, Wynberg, Cape Town.
Performances (poetry reading and music)
2010: Geroeste Musiek, Tyrone in Concert, Artscape, Athlone Civic Centre, Cape Town.
2009: Cape Town Book Fair (reading to children his new story The Silver Saxophone and The Magic Paintbrush), CTICC, Cape Town. Tyrone’s Geroeste Musiek, Voorkamer Festival, Darling, Cape Town.
2008: Cape Town Book Fair, book launch, Train to Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. Poetry Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
2007: Joe Schaffers and fellow musicians (with Tyrone Appollis and Boeta Katjie), District Six Museum, Cape Town.
Public collections
Iziko South African National Gallery, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape; Western Cape Provincial Government; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; South Africa House, London; Department of Education, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital; Constitutional Court of South Africa; SASOL and SANLAM.
Private collections
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Judge Albie Sachs, former President Nelson Mandela and former President Thabo Mbeki.
Commissions
2007: Ingrid Jonker Memorial, Gordon’s Bay, Cape Town. Sunday Times Heritage Project.
2006: Woolworths bags, Cape Town.
2004: Mural painting, Bridgeville Primary School, Cape Town.
1998: J&B Metropolitan Horse Race poster.
1997: City of Cape Town (painting for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Freedom of the City).
1996: SA Gourmet Festival poster.
Publications (books, magazines, newspapers, videos and catalogues)
2010: Friends pitch in for jazz maestro cancer
2009: Cultural vagabond has his own flair, Cape Times, August 27. T Appollis, The Silver Saxophone, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. Appollis & Maclay-Mayers, The Magic Paintbrush, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. S Hundt (ed.), Decade, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville (exhibition catalogue).
2008: Tyrone Appollis, Train to Mitchells Plain, Tyrone Appollis, Cape Town. Appollis art exhibition, Cape Times, September 9.
2006: S Hundt (ed.), Tyrone Appollis-Today and yesterday, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville. Appollis presents a study of contradictions, Cape Argus, September 1. Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversation with Tyrone Appollis, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue).
2005: C Blum, Kapkunst/Cape Art: 12 Portraits of South African Artists, Murmann, Hamburg. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters, OMAM, Cape Town.
2004: M Darrol et. al, Art for Aids Orphans Auction, Paperback, Cape Town. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Conversations with South African artists, OMAM, Cape Town. The rights of a child, Kwela Books, Cape Town & Lemniscaat, Rotterdam.
2003: McGee and Voyiya, The Luggage is Still Labelled: Blackness in South african Art (dvd).
1993: M Martin et. al, Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: C Till et. al, Cape Town Triennial, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Cape Town. Tribute Magazine. A Sitas, William Zungu-Xmas Story, Buchu Books, Cape Town.
1988: G Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Everard Read, Johannesburg. A Oliphant, Ten Years of Staffrider, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. R Rive, Emergency, David Philip Publishers, Claremont.
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