Berry Bickle

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Berry Bickle
Born1959 (age 65–66)
Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia
(today Zimbabwe)
Education Durban Institute of Technology, Rhodes University
Known for installation art, Conceptual art, sculpture
Awards Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow, 2010

Berry Bickle (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist who resides in Maputo. Born in Bulawayo, Bickle attended the Chisipite Senior School in Harare. Later, she attended the Durban Institute of Technology, where she obtained a national diploma in fine arts, [1] and South Africa's Rhodes University, where she obtained a master's degree in fine arts. [1] [2] Bickle was a founding member of Bulawayo's Visual Artists' Association. [3]

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She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and her work explores the region's history of colonialism. [4] In 1988, she and Tapfuma Gutsa organised the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa. [5] In 2010 she became a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow [6] and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.

Work

Berry Bickle is a multimedia artist who works in installation, video, photography, and ceramics. [7] Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography. Bickle has collaborated closely with the Zimbabwean ceramicist, Marjorie Wallace. [7] She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art [8] highlight the presence of texts in Bickle's work and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame, the artist labels her work "Re-Writes". [9]

Exhibitions

Berry Bickle's work is exhibited internationally. In 2011, Bickle represented Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale, at the time a rare appearance for an African nation. [11] The Zimbabwean Pavilion, which was curated by Raphael Chikukwa, was titled "Seeing Ourselves". [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2009). "" ARTISTS " Berry Bickle". Kulungwana. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Staff (2012). "Berry Bickle b. Zimbabwe, 1959". Textures – Word and symbol in contemporary African art. National Museum of African Art/Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Magee, Carol (21 February 2000). Bickle, Berry. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t096497.
  4. ↑ Simbao, Ruth; Chikukwa, Raphael; Ogonga, Jimmy; Bickle, Berry; Pereira, Marie Hélène; Altass, Dulcie Abrahams; Chikowero, Mhoze; Fall, N'Goné (June 2018). "Zimbabwe Mobilizes: ICAC's Shift from Coup de Grăce to Cultural Coup". African Arts. 51 (2): 4–17. doi: 10.1162/afar_a_00399 . ISSN   0001-9933.
  5. ↑ Pachipamwe International Artists' Workshop is held annually in Zimbabwe between 1988 and 1994. Set of images of the workshop.
  6. ↑ Staff (2010). "Berry Bickle". Rockefeller Foundation – Innovation for the next 100 years. The Rockefeller Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  7. 1 2 Sterling, Beverley (July–August 2008). "BERRY BICKLE: LOST WORDS NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE, HARARE APRIL 2008". Ceramic Review (232).
  8. ↑ Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, curated by Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007.
  9. ↑ Berry Bickle, Re-Writes in Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, curated by Chistine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007, p. 227-229; in particular the text refers to the works Wandering, Sarungano, Pessoa bowls series.
  10. 1 2 [Melancholia from the series "Maputo Utopias", 2007 on IFA gallery website "IFA: Berry Bickle". Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-15.].
  11. 1 2 3 Meldrum, Andrew (3 June 2011). "Zimbabwean artists featured at Venice Biennale - Zimbabwean paintings, videos, sculpture and photos displayed in Venice festival". Global Post.
  12. ↑ WICKOUSKI, Sheila (24 February 2005). "Ruscha-What's in a word? - Two exhibits, one at the National Gallery of Art and one at the National Museum of African Art, center around the written word". Free Lance-Star.
  13. ↑ "Divine Comedy". Kerber Verlag. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.

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