KEVIN ROBERTS

(b. 1965, Rustenburg, South Africa)

Kevin Roberts was born in 1965 in Rustenburg, South Africa. His serene, balanced and carefully constructed paintings and sculptures have received widespread acclaim. Winner of several awards with his distinctive style of rhythmic patterns and recurring symbols, he is one of South Africa’s most admired artists. He lived and worked in Johannesburg, lecturing part-time on painting and ceramics around Pretoria. Roberts passed away in 2009. He will be missed.

EDUCATION

1982     Matriculated at Grenville High School

1988     National Diploma in Fine Arts - Technikon Pretoria

1990     National Higher Diploma in Fine Arts - with Distinction

AWARDS

1987     Schweickerdt Prize for most promising student

1988     Innes Aab-Tamsen Prize - painting

1994     One of the winners of the 1994 Volkskas Atelier

1995     Third Prize at Kempton Park 95

1995     Winner of the 1995 Volkskas Atelier

1996     Winner of the 1996 Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Art Award

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1988-9/93-5      Volkskas Atelier

1989                     Rolles Impressions

1988/89              New Signatures

1993/94/95      Arts Alive

1994                     "Angels and Trees" SA Association of Arts

1995                     Pretoria at the Johannesburg Biennale

                                We the People United for a Global Environment (Pretoria Art Museum) Mmabatho

1995/96              Kempton Park / Tembisa Fine Art Award

1996                     South African Art in Egypt, Cairo

1997                     Executive Art, SA Association of Arts

1999                     artLONDON, June ’99 Fair, Chelsea

2000                     Summer 2000 - Group show Everard Read, Cape Town

2004                     Pretoria, A selection of Painters and Sculptures from the Nation’s Capital. Everard Read, Cape Town

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1993                     SA Association of Arts (N.Tvl)

1996                     Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1997                     Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001                     One man exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004                     One Man Exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

SASOL

Klerksdorp Municipality Collection

Department of Foreign Affairs

ABSA Bank Collection

Pretoria Art Museum

Anderson Consulting

Telkom

Consol Glass

Pretoria Technikon

Gauteng Government

Sanlam

Unisa

Kempton Park / Tembisa City Council

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

‘Kevin Roberts affirms the visual, or let us call it the ‘beautiful,’ as the essence of his art…. His paintings explore beauty, craftsmanship, pattern and image as part of an integrated whole. In this he too becomes part of a tapestry of painting stretching from the traditional to the contemporary.’

Ingrid Stevens