| Intro | South African artist | ||
| Was | Artist | ||
| From | South Africa | ||
| Type | Arts | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth |
1870, Twickenham, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, United Kingdom |
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| Death |
1955 |
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Allerley Glossop (1870–1955) was a South African artist known particularly for her landscape and pastoral scenes.
Personal life
Glossop was born Alice Glossop into a middle-class family in Twickenham, in West London, the daughter of George Glossop, the vicar of Twickenham, and his wife Eliza.
Career
Glossop studied painting at the Slade School in London under Charles Holroyd and modelling under George Frampton, and studied under William Mouat Loudan at the Westminster School of Art; she also worked under Arthur Elsley and Solomon Solomon, and taught at their short-lived art school, the Sphinx Studio, until it closed in 1900.
She moved to South Africa in 1900, farming and painting first at Klapmuts in the Western Cape, and was an active member of the South African Society of Artists (SASA), serving on the Society’s Council between 1902 and 1906. She habitually transgressed the gender roles assigned to a single white woman in colonial South Africa by dressing in men’s clothing (she was known to her close friends as “Joe”), wearing a pith helmet, smoking a pipe and venturing alone into rural areas to paint. Between 1902 and 1917 she farmed in Wellington, Western Cape, and in 1917 moved to Johannesburg.
In 1925 she moved to Lion’s River in kwaZulu-Natal, and worked from there until her death in 1955.
She exhibited in South Africa and abroad, including:
1902–1903 SASA annual exhibitions in Cape Town;
1910 exhibition of the South African Fine Arts Association, Cape Town;
1917–1919 SASA annual art exhibitions, Cape Town;
1920–1924 South African Academy of Art annual exhibition, Johannesburg;
1924 British Empire Exhibition, Wembley;
1924 SASA annual exhibition, Cape Town;
1935 exhibition of contemporary art, South African National Gallery;
1936 SASA annual exhibition, Cape Town;
and the 1937 exhibition of contemporary art, South African National Gallery.
Glossop’s work is represented in Durban Art Gallery; Ann Bryant Art Gallery in East London; Albany Museum, Grahamstown; Johannesburg Art Gallery; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; the University of Cape Town art collection; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley and the Pretoria Art Museum.