Hanneke Benade

Hanneke’s award-winning soft pastels are quiet and pensive figurative works, depicted with exquisitely delicate formal skill. Characteristically focusing on women shown in calm, contemplative poses, her figures are bathed in a tranquil light creating a timeless, Baroque-like stillness.

They are private scenes with an ethereal mood, inviting the viewer to quietly admire their world of peaceful mediation.Hanneke’s paintings have been exhibited around South Africa in a number of public exhibitions and collections and she receives regular private commissions.

Alongside her painting Hanneke has lectured at the University of Pretoria and curated agroup exhibition of eighty artists: ‘Squared’ at Café Palette, Pretoria Art Museum, following athree month stint at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris December 1999 –2000.

Hanneke was born in 1972.

Education

1989
Pro Arte High School Pretoria – Matriculated with distinction in Graphic Art
1990-‘93
University of Pretoria (Fine Arts) IV – Majoring in Printmaking.

Awards

1993
Judges prize during Sasol New Signatures Exhibition
1995
Shared third prize winner KemptonPark/Tembisa Fine Arts Award
1996
Merit prize winner, Volkas Atelier Award, Pretoria Art Museum
1998
Merit prize winner, Volksas Atelier Award, Pietersburg Art Museum
1999
Shared third prize-Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Award

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