Beth Diane Armstrong

Beth Diane Armstrong
Born 1985
Nelspruit, South Africa
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

  1. ↑ "Brundyn + Gonsalves | Beth Diane Armstrong". Brundyngonsalves.com. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  2. ↑ "Features - Bright Young Things". Art South Africa. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  3. ↑ "BRUNDYN + GONSALVES | BETH ARMSTRONG To skip the last step". Brundyngonsalves.com. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  4. ↑ "BRUNDYN + GONSALVES | BETH ARMSTRONG Towards an architecture of loss". Brundyngonsalves.com. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  5. ↑ "Prescient". Prescient. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  6. ↑ "Worldforall". Worldforall. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
  7. ↑ "Grace OMalley reviews The Fine Black Line by Beth Armstrong at Brundyn Gonsalves". Artthrob. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  8. ↑ Jamal, A. 2009. "Breaking the Barrier of Objecthood" in Art South Africa 8(2). 30-31.

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