SIMONE WURZ

(b.1986, Eastern Cape, South Africa)

Drawing as mark making has always fascinated Simone Wurz, especially working in pencil - a very unforgiving medium - and watercolour paints which enable the artist to work in layers, meticulously building images to completion.

Wurz portrays glimpses of anonymous people, walking their stories in their day-to-day lives, in lifelike watercolour paintings. The idea that individuals can be recognised at a distance through gait or manner intrigues her. When viewed at a distance, her subjects appear miniscule and this optical illusion is aided by the scale of her work.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Summer, Everard Read Gallery, London, UK
Winter, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2017
People and Portraiture, CIRCA, Cape Town, South Africa
Summer, Everard Read Gallery, London, UK

2016
Winter, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Summer, Everard Read Gallery, London, UK
Reality Check, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Imago Mundi - The Art of Humanity, The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Barclays L'Atelier Regional Entries, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, South Africa

2015
Summer in the City, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
However, ArtHub Gallery, London, UK
Homage, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
The Grand II, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, South Africa

2014
Imago Mundi – The Art of Humanity, Museo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
Summer, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Imago Mundi – The Art of Humanity, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy
The Grand, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, South Africa
The City, Imibala Gallery, Somerset West, South Africa

2013
100, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Possessed, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2012
Small Works, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2011
Gradex 2011, Graduate Show, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

EDUCATION

BA Fine Arts, Stellenbosch University