| Intro | Artist |
| Is | Artist |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Arts |
| Gender | female |
| Birth |
South Africa |
Liza Grobler (born 1974) is a South African Mixed Media artist who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Grobler works in a diverse range of media, embracing bright colour and often incorporating traditional craft techniques to create site-specific work. She is represented in Cape Town by BRUNDYN + GONSALVES.
Biography
Grobler received her master’s degree in Fine Art with distinction from Stellenbosch University in 1999, after which she worked towards developing a signature aesthetic involving bright colours and diverse media. Grobler often incorporates traditional craft techniques such as beadwork ( recently she has collaborated with The Quebeka Bead Studio to produce beaded works. She has participate in close to a hundred group shows locally (in South Africa)and abroad – in Italy, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, the United States, and Finland. She attended residencies and workshops in the US, Norway, Finland and Switzerland. Her work resides in many notable collections including the Jeanetta Blignaut Art Consultancy Collection. Grobler has also been an art critic and regular contributor for daily Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger. Grobler lives and works in Cape Town with her artist husband Norman O’Flynn and son, Storm.
Recent Developments
In 2012 Grobler unveiled ‘White Termite’, her most recent solo exhibition, at BRUNDYN + GONSALVES. This is her 9th solo exhibition.
Grobler’s work was also included in ‘ALPTRAUM!’, a 2011 group drawing exhibition which travelled between Cell Project Space, London; Deutscher Künstlerbund Projektraum, Berlin; The Company, Los Angeles and ‘Blank Projects’, Cape Town.
Notable Collaborations
- Grobler collaborated with Jeanne Hoffman on the public art project, ‘Afrikkan Tähti’ at the Rauma Art Museum in Finland in 2007. A blog was created to document this project.
- In 2006, Grobler co-developed WASTE AT WORK – a waste minimisation business/art collaborative project – with Jeanetta Blignaut.
- Grobler co-founded Cape Town-based project space blank projects with Jonathan Garnham in 2005.
- “Afrikan Tähti at Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma”. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- http://afrikantahti.blogspot.com/
- “Working with waste: arts, business and environmental awareness”. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- “Blank Projects”. Time Out. Retrieved June 27, 2012.