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Beth Diane Armstrong | |
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| Born | 1985 |
| Nationality |  South African |
| Education | Rhodes University |
| Known for | Sculpture |
Beth Diane Armstrong (born 1985) is a South African sculptor. Armstrong is represented in Cape Town by BRUNDYN + GONSALVES [1]
Biography
Armstrong graduated in 2010 with a MFA from Rhodes University. In 2009, she was heralded as one of Art South Africa’s ‘Bright Young Things’.[2] Her most recent solo exhibitions at iArt Gallery (now BRUNDYN + GONSALVES), To skip the last step [3] and Towards an architecture of loss,[4] operate in conjunction to explore the concept of traversal and surmounting of loss. Armstrong currently lives and works in Johannesburg.
Recent developments
Armstrong was selected to create sculptures for a major 2011 campaign by investment management firm Prescient.[5]
Armstrong was one of 33 artists selected for Worldforall's 'Not All is Black and White: Wisdom from the African Zebra' campaign, which ran concurrently to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[6]
Reception
Grace O’Malley noted in a review for Artthrob, that Armstrong’s work “offered a multifaceted intellectual examination of human psychology through line and space”.[7] Ashraf Jamal, in a piece on Armstrong for Art South Africa’s “Bright Young Things”, states that “Armstrong’s warping of the sculpture paradigm makes way for new applications and new figurations in a genre caught in the tedious warp of thingness”; later stating that Armstrong introduces not only a new philosophy of making and meaning, but its solution”.[8]
References
- ^ "Brundyn + Gonsalves | Beth Diane Armstrong". Brundyngonsalves.com. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "Features - Bright Young Things". Art South Africa. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "BRUNDYN + GONSALVES | BETH ARMSTRONG To skip the last step". Brundyngonsalves.com. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "BRUNDYN + GONSALVES | BETH ARMSTRONG Towards an architecture of loss". Brundyngonsalves.com. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "Prescient". Prescient. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ "Worldforall". Worldforall. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
- ^ "Grace OMalley reviews The Fine Black Line by Beth Armstrong at Brundyn Gonsalves". Artthrob. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ Jamal, A. 2009. "Breaking the Barrier of Objecthood" in Art South Africa 8(2). 30-31.