Doreen Southwood

Education

Southwood received her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of Stellenbosch in 1998.

Career

She works in a wide variety of media in her artwork, producing sculptures, objects, prints, film, and more, which she often bases on personal experiences and self exploration. Her candidness regarding personal flaws and the cycles of repression and coping that accompany conservative, middle class, Afrikaans upbringing inform much of her work, calling attention to ways in which women are silenced or otherwise repressed in that space. Her work has been exhibited in Senegal, Cuba, New York, and across South Africa.

In 2001 she opened a shop in Cape Town called Mememe, which seeks to make the work of African fashion designers available to the public.

Another Mememe shop opened in Johannesburg in 2011. Southwood"s own designs have been featured in fashion weeks in Johannesburg and Cape Town and are known for embodying features of the feminine and nostalgic.

Education Exhibitions 2010 CURRENT MATTERS, The Gallery, Grande Provence, Franshoek TWENTY, South African Sculpture of the last Two Decades, Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradlle of Humankind, Gauteng 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town 2009 SING INTO MY MOUTH, What if the world, Cape Town Audi JO"BURG Fashion Week, Sandton Convention centre 2008 ZA: GIOVANNE ARTE DEL SUDAFRICA, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy VIRGIN MOBILE CAPE TOWN FASHION week, Cape Town 2007 SUMMER 2007/08, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town SPIER CONTEMPORARY, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch 2006 ALTERNATIVE CLOTHES workshop, Havanna Biennale, Cuba PERSONAL AFFECTS: Power and Poetics in South African Art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu WOMAN: Photography and New Media, Jo"burg 2005 Indiana THE MAKING: materials and process, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town UNIVERSE OF Master of Engineering, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town SYNERGY, Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town 2004 DEMOCRACY AND CHANGE, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudshorn DAKART Biennial, Dakar, Senegal FORTY/VEERTIG, Sasol Museum Stellenbosch PERSONAL AFFECTS, Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Museum for African Art, New York City A DECADE OF DEMOCRACY: South African art 1994-2004 from the permanent collection, South African National Gallery, Cape Town 2003 KAROO NASIONALE KUNSTEFEES, Untitled (solo exhibition) 2002 BELLVILLE ARTS ASSOCIATION, ABSA Atelier SELF, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefess, Oudshorn JUST PERFECT, Spark Gallery, Jo"burg BELL ROBRTS GALLERY, Nothing really matters, Cape Town.

Achievements

• In 2003, Southwood was named the overall winner of the Brett Kebble Art Awards for her painted bronze sculpture, "The Swimmer." The sculpture featured a young woman gazing blankly ahead as she stands on the end of a diving board. Foreign this award, Southwood received R100,000, at that time the largest award for a single artwork in South African history. BRETT KEBELE ART AWARDS Finalists Exhibition, Cape Town.