Tyrone Appollis

Tyrone Appollis nyɛla South Africanima nuchee ni baŋda.

Tyrone Appollis
Tuma

Shikuru baŋsim

O nyɛla ŋun daa bɔhim nuchee ni baŋsim Community Arts Project, Cecil Skotnes

Bin din gbaai yuuni 1982 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1987, o nyɛla ŋun daa be Mitchells Plain Art Group yuuni 1988.

Selected exhibitions

1982: Rocklands Library, Mitchells Plain, Cape.

1988: Solo exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town Luxurama Theatre, Wynberg, Cape (Artists Against Apartheid)University of the Western Cape, mural.

1989: British Council Offices, Johannesburg Rahmen Galerie, Langei, Germany (with Peter Clarke and Ishmel Thyssen)

1990: Solo exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Worcester, Cape The Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek (Namibian Independence Exhibition)

1991: South African Triennial

1992: Solo Exhibition, Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape

1993: Solo Exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1997: Solo exhibition South African Association of Arts, Cape Town

Works Appearing on Book Jackets

• Contrast Magazine – 1985/1986
• Emergency by Richard Rive
• Ten Years of Staffrider, 1988
• A Walk in the Night and Stone Country by Alex La Guma
• The Struggle for District Six – Hands Off District Six Committee
• William Zungu by Ari Sitas

Publications

2010: Friends pitch in for jazz maestro cancer

2009: Cultural vagabond has his own flair, Cape Times, August 27. T Appollis, The Silver Saxophone, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. Appollis & Maclay-Mayers, The Magic Paintbrush, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. S Hundt (ed.), Decade, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville (exhibition catalogue).

2008: Tyrone Appollis, Train to Mitchells Plain, Tyrone Appollis, Cape Town. Appollis art exhibition, Cape Times, September 9.

2006: S Hundt (ed.), Tyrone Appollis-Today and yesterday, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville. Appollis presents a study of contradictions, Cape Argus, September 1. Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversation with Tyrone Appollis, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue).

2005: C Blum, Kapkunst/Cape Art: 12 Portraits of South African Artists, Murmann, Hamburg. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters, OMAM, Cape Town.

2004: M Darrol et al., Art for Aids Orphans Auction, Paperback, Cape Town. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Conversations with South African artists, OMAM, Cape Town. The rights of a child, Kwela Books, Cape Town & Lemniscaat, Rotterdam.

2003: McGee and Voyiya, The Luggage is Still Labelled: Blackness in South african Art (DVD).

1993: M Martin et al., Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

1991: C Till et al., Cape Town Triennial, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Cape Town. Tribute Magazine. A Sitas, William Zungu-Xmas Story, Buchu Books, Cape Town.

1988: G Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Everard Read, Johannesburg. An Oliphant, Ten Years of Staffrider, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. R Rive, Emergency, David Philip Publishers, Claremont.

Collections

Public collections: Iziko South African National Gallery, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape; Western Cape Provincial Government; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; South Africa House, London; Department of Education, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital; Constitutional Court of South Africa; SASOL and SANLAM.

Private collections: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Judge Albie Sachs, former President Nelson Mandela and former President Thabo Mbeki.