Mandy Spiegel is a first generation South African, of German and Dutch parentage. She has lived as an adult in Holland, the UK and Singapore.
Her South African upbringing encouraged a focus on African masks and motifs, landscapes and ancestral rituals.
Her art making was influenced from early years by Maria Stein-Lessing and Leo Spiegel, Alexis Preller, Walter Battiss and Irma Stern, subsequently Stanley Pinker and Peggy Delport.
Mandy's previous focuses have been on portraiture, anthropomorphic figures, displaced items, and gender.
Her more recent artwork includes references to sculpture and monuments, inspired by natural objects extracted from their environment and placed into fantasy.
Sources include Zimbabwean wooden statuettes, French garden figurines, naval prow figureheads, Bauhaus collection artefacts, the V & A Sculptural collections, Charleston furniture, Rwandan images, parrots, Sea Point trees and sulphur hot springs. Links are made visually between disparate environments and indicate fusion versus dislocation.
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
B.A.F.A. A.T.C. Adv.Dip.A.Th.
Graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1977 with Maciver Scholarship
Postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London in Art Education and Art Therapy
Taught and worked as S.E.N. specialist using creative processes
EXHIBITIONS
2017
Dream now, dream not, the annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery
2016
Winchester Mansions Hotel Cape Town
2000
Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre, London
1996
Blackheath Halls
1984
Tudor Barn, London
1979
Graphics for B.A.A.T. publications
1970’s
Commissions for Lino Printing in Journal Publications
Harold Wolpe Gallery
Private Commissions, London and Denmark, ongoing
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Artist: MANDY SPIEGEL
Title: African roots
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Media: Oil on canvas
Price: R 6 960 unframed
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