SELWYN PEKEUR
 
Selwyn Pekeur Lives and works in Paarl and is actively involved in promoting the visual arts in his local community. A full time artist since June 1998 Pekeur began his career in the teaching profession. In this capacity he was appointed convenor of the schools art project and was involved in organising workshops and exhibitions for children's art and young artists. Selwyn is a founder member of the E'Bezweni Art Group (E.A.G.) established in Paarl in October 1994. Solomon Siko, Kerwin Cupido, Dylan Denyssen and Alby Bailey are also members of the group.

A positive influence in the new South Africa, Selwyn chooses to explore humour as a force to bridge the cultural divide rather than redefine the fault lines that have separated the Cape communities of the past. Laughter heals. The viewer becomes a voyeur observing an intimate moment of family life on a sultry afternoon in a township home. Black is beautiful in this artist's vision. Selwyn's women are great inflated fantasies, titillating and festooned in colourful frippery.

Selwyn loves to experiment with different materials, media and techniques. He has worked as a sculptor, print maker and paints in oil and acrylic.

Public and Corporate Collections:
Museum of Contemporary African Art (Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) University of Western Cape, University of South Africa, Paarl Municipality, Santam Bank Art Collection; Cape Town, Sanlam Art Collection; Cape Town, Telkom, Swiss R E (Health and Life) Cape Town.

Also work in private collections in South Africa, Germany, Australia, Scotland and the United States of America, England, West Indies, Switzerland.

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