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Thelma Van Rensburg

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Thelma van Rensburg (born 15 April 1969) is a South African artist. Her work explores female sexuality and how women are represented in the mass media concerning beauty or ugliness, issues of otherness and the Gaze. Her art making process is adventurous – ranging from mixed media, painting and drawing to digital work. She has been a participant in competitions such as Sasol New Signatures competition 2007 in Pretoria, Ekurhuleni competition in 2009 and Vuleka competition in 2009 in Cape Town and Art Lovers competition in Pretoria in 2014 and 2015 and was a finalist in all of these competitions.

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Since 2008, van Rensburg has participated in several group exhibitions, including at the Fried Contemporary Gallery in Pretoria; Maggie gallery in Centurion; the Gallery at Duncan Yard Pretoria; and the MAP Gallery in Graskop. In 2009, she took part in a group exhibition at Deluxeville Gallery in Woodstock; the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville; in the Affordable Art Fair at Fried Contemporary Gallery in Pretoria; St Lorient Fashion and Art Gallery in Pretoria; Aardklop Arts Festival in Potchefstroom. She also had a solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus in Cape Town in September 2009, and she was a finalist in the Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Awards as well as in the Vuleka Sanlam competition in Cape Town the same year. In 2010, her work was showcased at The Gallery at Duncan Yard on many occasions; the Articles and Frames in Pretoria; at the Artcafe@thehub in Centurion; the Gallery 18th Avenue in Pretoria and at the Artspace Warehouse in Johannesburg.

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