Born 1957, Cape Town, South Africa
Tyrone Appollis started his art career as a painter and began sculpting in wood seriously from 1990. Currently he views himself as being a sculptor, painter, print-maker, poet and street musician. He considers political and social reconciliation to be a function of art – art as cross-cultural dialogue. Appollis has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in multi-media. These exhibitions have taken place all over South Africa as well as outside of its borders.
Tyrone Appollis started his art career as a painter and began sculpting in wood seriously from 1990. Currently he views himself as being a sculptor, painter, print-maker, poet and street musician. He considers political and social reconciliation to be a function of art – art as cross-cultural dialogue. Appollis has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in multi-media. These exhibitions have taken place all over South Africa as well as outside of its borders.
I chose to look at Tyrone Appollis because of the colours used in his work, with him being an African artist I found it helpful noticing that some of the colours he uses I could use for my own work to give it that vibrant feel of Africa. I also enjoy some of his black and white paintings because they have that African symbols within the painting and he has taken markings from the culture and used them in his work.
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