| Auction started | 1 August 2024 8:00 am | ||
LOT 58: Lynette van Tonder – Jippie the brave 2019
Charcoal and watercolor on Fabriano 100cm x 70cm’, ‘
Estimate: R2000 – R2500
Created in charcoal and water colour on Fabriano, ‘Jippie the Brave’ pays tribute to a family legend: My father called everyone of his male dogs by the same name, Jippie. During the Anglo-Boer war, my great-grandparents had a dog named Jippie on their farm. The British troops torched the farmhouse with everything they could not loot, and forced the women and children to the nearest concentration camp. Somehow, Jippie had escaped. My great-grandmother and her children endured severe ordeals in the camp but eventually returned to what was left of their scorched farm. A skin-and-bone version of Jippie was still on guard and overjoyed to see them. Each time he told me the story, my dad got quite emotional. He didn’t like my drawing because I had depicted ‘Jippie’ as ‘too robust’. But, I like it, because this beautiful and lovable white Alsatian was my dad’s last Jippie. He was my friend and hero too.The doll depicted in ‘Jippie the Brave’ is a Victorian-era rag doll, such as my aunties may have played with. The weed illustrated, is Khaki bush, which came to South Africa mixed with the British army’s horse feed. In the distance, the remainder of a dream is going up in smoke.You may conclude that I am anti-brit. You would be very wrong. My mother was nee Wilson, and I am a complete mixed breed. Although I am p—d at the brutality, destruction and loss, the weeds the Khakis ‘blessed’ us with, is a reminder to check the heart. Rid it of bitterness which quickly spreads everywhere, just like these darned weeds.
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About The Artist
Lynette van Tonder was born in Pretoria but grew up in the countryside just outside Johannesburg. She received a diploma in graphic design at Pretoria Technikon (TUT) with a minor in sculpture and later a MMI diploma from Damelin business college.
Lynette worked her way up to the position of creative director in design and advertising winning several awards for large international and local blue chip brands.
In her spare time, van Tonder studied French at the Alliance Francaise, keyboard and rhythm on djembe and actively pursued her visual art during any spare moment.
She furthered her studies at the Summer Academy of Art in Salzburg, Austria, (lithography with Prof Werner Otte); Bill Ainslie Studio (etching); Thea Soggot (drawing / painting); Bevan de Wet and Lebohang Sithole at Sharon Sampson studios (printmaking), Professional Practice Seminar with Art Source in partnership with Lizamore and Associates.
Van Tonder’s first solo exhibition, COVERED, comments on loss of identity when abuse is hidden behind societal masks. Rather than using shock tactics, the artist presents a sober reflection inviting courage to lift masks covering wounds that require honest introspection, accountability and personal responsibility.
COVERED was exhibited at Standard Bank Art Festival in Grahamstown and a Johannesburg-based pop-up gallery. Group shows followed at Fried Contemporary, The Gallery Riebeek Kasteel, Halifax Art, Tina Skukan, Sharon Sampson studios. Lynette van Tonder also works at Halifax Art Gallery on a part-time basis.
URBANISM, her latest solo, reflects randomly on the relationship between a euro-african woman and her mother-city, Johannesburg. Van Tonder expresses herself in a variety of disciplines on various substrates and media: oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, printmaking, photography, digital genres and multi-media installation.
Mark making is integral to her message, exposing layers hidden behind societal masks, revealing unexpected beauty when imperfection and brokenness is embraced. Architecture, flesh, masculine and feminine states, relationships and isolation, bravery and fear inform her work.