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Born
18 April 1954, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. I studied printmaking
and book illustration at the Port Elizabeth Technicon in 1976 and
graduated with an HND (distinction) in 1980. Worked briefly in
advertising and was later commissioned as a freelance book
illustrator for Heinemann and Macmillan Educational Publishers. In
2008, presented a printmaking workshop at the KV Art School,
Gothenburg, Sweden.Work predominantly in woodcut & linocut
printmaking, but also in charcoal drawing & mixed media.
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS:
1986-1991 'Annual
International Exhibition of Miniature Art’,
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1991 Solo
Exhibition, Eastern
Province Society of Arts & Crafts Gallery, St. Georges Park,
Port Elizabeth (later renamed ArtEC).
2007 Printmaking
Exhibition', Eastern
Province Society of Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bird Street, Port
Elizabeth (later renamed ArtEC).
2008 South
African Exhibition’, selected artists from the Eastern
Cape, Frolunda
Kulturhus, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2010 'Creative
Diversity’', selected artists from the Eastern Cape,
William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.
2010 'Art
and Artists of the Eastern Cape’, Athenaeum, Port
Elizabeth.
2011 Solo
Exhibition, ArtEC Gallery,
Port Elizabeth.
2012 'Big
Cape Rollers’, selected artists/printmakers from the
Western and Eastern Cape, Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2012 'Printmaking
2012’, an
exhibition of Contemporary Art Prints, Sandton Art Gallery,
Johannesburg (to co-inside with the
FNB Joburg Art Fair).
2012 'Large
Works',
Athenaeum, Port Elizabeth.
2013 Solo
Exhibition, Ron Belling Art Gallery (GFI
Art Gallery), Port Elizabeth.
2013 'Botanical
Prints 2013’, SA Print Gallery, Cape Town.
2013 'Official
95 International Mandela Poster Collective’
(a
national & international travelling
exhibition).
2013 'Alice
in Wonderland', curated by Gordon Froud, Art Lovers Gallery,
Pretoria.
2014 'Wish
You Were Here', Athenaeum,
Port Elizabeth.
2014 'Wish
You Were Here', Standard
Bank Art’s Festival, Grahamstown.
2016 'Must
Rise', an ArtEC Gallery collective exhibition,
Standard Bank Art’s Festival, Grahamstown.
2017 'Eastern
Cape Emergence', art it is
Gallery, Parkwood, Johannesburg.
2017 'Truth
Be Told', ArtEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth
(an exhibition sponsored by the Regional Department of Arts &
Culture).
2018 'Intsingiselo-The
Meaning', ArtEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth
(an exhibition sponsored by the Regional Department of Arts &
Culture).
2018 'Rethinking
Boundaries', Priest Gallery, Johannesburg, in collaboration
with ArtEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2018 'Contested
Spaces'
(a
permanent exhibition from the WHAG collection, dedicated to the
struggle), William
Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.
2018 'Adjusting
The Picture, 1918-2018, A Century Of Art In The City',
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum.
2019 'Through
Our Eyes: Journey to America',
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum (a
cultural exchange exhibition of selected work to travel to
Jacksonville, USA).
2021 'Through
Our Eyes: Journey to America',
Ritz Theatre & Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (a
cultural exchange exhibition of selected work celebrating the 20th
Anniversary of the twinning of City of Jacksonville, USA &
Nelson MandelaBay).
2022 'After
the Rain', a
group exhibition of selected artists curated by Sammy Muller, Johann
van Heerden Art Gallery, Pretoria.
MEDIA
EXPOSURE:
1991 Eastern
Province Herald, 'Alan
Grobler's first one-man exhibition opens...',by
Elizabeth Y. Foster.
2000-2003 Algoa
Sun Newspaper, (Jonnic Publishers), 'Sunbeam Corner for
the Younger Set, story and Illustration by Alan Grobler'.
2007 Eastern
Province Herald, 'Powerful exhibition of contemporary
artists',by
Kin Bentley.
2008 Looking
Back; Vol. 47, a publication of the Port
Elizabeth Historical Society, 'Frank
Pickford Marriott, A Post Pre-Raphaelite, 1871-1935’,
(a research article).
2011 Eastern
Province Herald, ‘Exhibition looks at people and their
relationship with Urban Freeways',
by Nomahlubi Jordaan.
2011 Mandela
Bay Development Agency (MBDA), Port Elizabeth,‘208
East Cape Artists’, an illustrated compilation of artists
representing the Eastern Cape, by Helene Theron (the publication
co-incided with a launch of the exhibition,'Art
and Artists of the Eastern Cape’,
held at the Athenaeum, Port Elizabeth.
2012 SA
Art Times (May issue),
printmaking feature.
2013 Eastern
Province Herald - ArtScene, 'Artist casts spotlight on Bay
architecture', by Lee Meyer.
2013 Elle
Decoration, 'Mandela
Day: ‘67 WAYS TO CHANGE THE WORLD’.
2014 INFOCOM
quarter 1, Nelson Mandela Bay BusinessChamber, a Q&A
arist's profile,‘Wish You Were Here’ exhibition.
2014 Interpak
Books, ‘Bible Mission in Africa’, by Bob Wielenga.
2014 Carolina
Academic Press, University of Austin, Texas, USA,
'Tributes To A Global
Icon', edited by Toyin Falola.
2014 Eastern
Province Herald, 'Art
Imitates Bay Life – Athenaeum to host major exhibition', by
Riaan Marais.
2015 Die
Burger, Kuns en Vermaak,
'Humphreys-galery koop werke van Grobler
aan', deur Willemien Green.
2017
In
Your Pocket, Eastern Cape Emergence,
Johannesburg.
2020 Die
Burger, Kuns en Vermaak,
'Kunstenaar gebruik nou houdskool as medium oor artritis en
besering',
deur Willemien Green.
2021 Amazon
&
Inspiration for Writers, Inc.,
'In
The Midst, A Covid-19 Anthology' by
Sandy Tritt, (an international publication including artwork, prose &
poetry from
100 selected entries worldwide).
2021 Die
Burger, Kuns en Vermaak,
'O-Kapenaar
se kuns spog internationaal,
Kunswerk
oor Covid-19 is bundel se voorblad',
deur Willemien Green.
FUNDRAISING
EVENTS:
2013 'Home
is where the Heart is' a
fundraiser exhibition organised by TAFTA (The Association For The
Aged), ArtSPACE, Durban.
2013 'Dianne
Victor Benefit Auction',
Strauss
& Co, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018 'Forget
Me Not',
an
exhibition of Fine Art responding to Dementia and Alzheimer's
Disease in
collaboration
with
the
Eastern Cape Region of Alzheimer's South Africa,
GFI Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
AWARDS:
2014 Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University Sponsor Choice Award & Radison
Blu Sponsor Award,
'Wish
You Were Here'
(a selector’s traveling exhibition).
2017 Sponsor
Award, presented by the Regional Department of Arts & Culture,
(recipient
for work submitted towards a group exhibition 'Truth
Be Told'), ArtEC
Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
2018 Sponsor
Award presented by the Regional Department of Arts & Culture,(recipient
for work submitted towards a group exhibition 'Intsingiselo-The
Meaning', ArtEC
Gallery, Port Elizabeth.
PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS:
Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.
William
Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.
