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2025/2026 Cacoëthes series
2026 Beyond Bearing
2026 And the Tapestry was the World
2026 Gone to Ground
2025 Cacoëthes
2025 Free As Air
2025 If Only
2025 If Path Be There or None
2025 Heaven on Earth
2024/2025 Fever Dream series
2025 Forever and a Day
2025 Runaway
2025 A Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
2025 To Be Possessed
2025 Nocturne
2025 Man Alive
2025 Going Under
2024 Amor Mundi
2024 Spoils
2025 Disarray
2024 All the Delight in the World
2014/2024 Turning World
2024 A Thin Veil
2024 Heart’s Ease
2023 Misrule
2023 Afterparty
2023 Nest
small paintings
2024 Fever Dream series: drawings
2022/2023 Vertigo series
2023 Vertigo Installation Views
2023 Vertigo series: Hominids, Vertigo, Great Ape
2023 Vertigo series: Mind’s Eye, Puppies
2023 Vertigo series: At Sea, Manhole, Vivarium, Pondlife
2023 Vertigo series: Habitat 1 and 2
2022 Vertigo series: Meaning and Purpose Triptych
2022 Vertigo series: painting in the studio
2022 Vertigo series: Drawings on Black Paper
2022 Drawings on Black Paper in the studio
2022 Vertigo series: Wreath drawings 1-3
2022 Vertigo series: Predicament painting
2021 In-Between Self – commission for the Drents Museum Collection
2021 Beyond Belief 10-year survey, Drents Museum, Netherlands: installation views
2021 Proverb series
2021 Proverb: paintings
2021 Proverb: details of paintings
2020 Beyond Belief 8-panel work
2020 Fool’s Gold: 10 small paintings
2019 Memory of What Never Was series
Home Away from Home: 5 work series
Home Away from Home Details
Nobody Inside Them
Elegy for What Never Was
2019 Memory of What Never Was: 48 Small Paintings
2019 Memory of What Never Was : installation views
2018 Paintings for “About Face”
2018 The Human Abstract: series
2016 Picnic series
2016 Picnic: paintings
2016 Picnic: details of paintings
2016 Picnic: drawings
2016 Schema: series
2015 Painting-Drawing 1 – 3
2015 Scenes of a Romantic Nature: series
2015 Scenes of a Romantic Nature: details of paintings
2013 Pictures: series
2013 Pictures: details of paintings
2013 Drawings for special edition catalogues
2012 Land of Cockaigne: series
2011 Arcadia: 11 panel installation
2011 Dioramas: series
2009 Everything Matters: series
2007&2008 Untitled
2007 The Grip of Circumstance: series
2006 Paintings
2006 Safety and Security: series
2005 Commission for the Arabella Hotel, Cape Town
2004 Recent Paintings
2000-2003
1995-1999
1990 – 1994
1986 – 1989
1975-1985
texts
artist’s texts
2025 Fever Dream talk
2025 Fever dream
2025 Painting Myself
2024 A Thin Veil
2024 True Love: on painting people
2024 text for “Dream with Open Eyes”, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Switzerland
2023 Vertigo Exhibition Text
2023 Vertigo: texts for individual paintings
2023 Drawings on Black Paper
2023 Talk: The Compulsion to Paint
2022 Folly: English and German
2021 Texts on selected paintings, “Beyond Belief” catalogue and exhibition, Netherlands
2021 Proverb: short text
2021 Proverb: text for audio commentary
2020 Fool’s Gold
2019 Essay for “David Goldblatt By’, edited by Baptiste Lignel
2019 Memory of What Never Was
2019 text for the painting “Nobody Inside Them”
2018 You, Me, There, Here – text for ICAIO, Mauritius
2018 Beware, dear self
2017 The Human Abstract
2017 Process and the Art of Service
2016 “Picnic” talk
2015 Propositions
2015 Scenes of a Romantic Nature talk
2014 Scenes of a Romantic Nature
2014 Dioramas
2013 “Pictures” exhibition text
2013 “Pictures” talk
2012 The Faustian Pact
2012 School Talk
2010 “Everything Matters” talk
press and other texts
2023 A deep dive into the classic and contemporary genres of African art (excerpt), Bongo Mei, Stirworld, India
2023 “Overcome by vertigo – knowing I will die, while acting like I won’t”, Anna Prudhomme, Lampoon, Milan, Italy
2023 “Rimpeltjes en blauwe aders” Dutch and English, Eric Bos, Dagblad van het Noorden, Netherlands
2022 “Bis unter die Haut” (German with English translation) Ronald Berg, tipBerlin magazine, Germany
2022 “Bilder mit Sogwirkung” Johanna Bayram, July/August edition Kunst:Art, Germany
2021 “Probleemloos een penis schilderen”, Fred de Vries, for issue 31, De Groene, Netherlands
2021 “Paint a penis effortlessly” English translation, Fred de Vries, issue 31, De Groene, Netherlands
2021 catalogue essay for “Beyond Belief, Karlijn de Jong, Netherlands
2021 Mads Damsbo, “A Car Wreck in Paradise”, catalogue essay for “Beyond Belief”
2021 “Paintings full of references”, Illand Pietersma, Dagblad van het Noorden
2021 Michael Smith review of “Proverb”, Artthrob
2018 ICIAO Mauritius press
2016 Deborah Poynton: Perspectives in Adjective
2016 “Picnic” review, Lucinda Jolly
2016 “Picnic” review, Lloyd Pollak
2016 excerpt from “9 weeks” Hansi Momomu-Gordon.pdf
2015 “Return to Splendour” Tymon Smith
2015 “Deborah Poynton: Art is Always Artful” Layla Leiman, between 10&5
2014 “Model for a World”, Amie Soudien, Artthrob
2014 “Scenes that evade words to speak in the silence”, Lucinda Jolly, Cape Times
2013 “Illusion grounded in nature’s bounty”, Lucinda Jolly, Cape Times
2012 “Escape to Cockaigne”, Percy Mabandu, City Press
2012 Deborah Poynton review, Jonathan Cane, Art South Africa
2012 “The profoundly foolish act of painting”, Sean O’Toole, Mail and Guardian
2012 Poynton and Busittil review, Mary Corrigall
2011 “Arcadia” review, Lucinda Jolly, Cape Times
2010 “The Art of Denial” Janet Solomons
2009 “Deborah Poynton Observed”: catalogue essay by David Goldblatt
2009 “Paintings of scale, impact” Veronica Wilkinson, Sunday Times
2009 “Haunting images laced with fine irony”, _Melvyn Minaar, Cape Times.jpg
2009 “The Fantasy of Reality”, Miles Keylock, Mail and Guardian
2007 Warren Siebrits, Art South Africa.pdf
2007 Beeld “Met verwonding in die oog” by Bettie Lambrecht
2007 Beeld “Met verwonding in die oog” by Bettie Lambrecht – English translation
2007 “Mirroring Life”, Mary Corrigall, Sunday Independent
2006 “Deborah Poynton”, Lloyd Pollack, Artthrob
2006 “Deborah Poynton”, Joyce Monson, Art South Africa
2006 “Monumente vir die 21ste eeu”, Liza Grobler, Die Burger
2006 “Poynton’s paintings make the familiar look odd”, Cape Times
2006 Arts and Leisure, Jane Mayne, Business Day
2005 “A Roar like Silence”, Lloyd Pollack, Art South Africa
2005 “On Being Painted”, catalogue essay, Professor Peter Rech, University of Cologne
2004 “The Compulsive Power of Deborah Poynton” Lloyd Pollak
2004 “Colourful enigmas aim to interact with viewers”, Suzanne Joubert, Business Day
2004 Michael Stevenson in Conversation
2004 “The State of the Nation in Brushstrokes, Lloyd Pollack, This Day
2004 “Vreemde nadraaie van die psige” Cobus van Bosch, Die Burger
2003 “‘Illogical’ study of being human”, Douglas Carew, Sunday Argus
2001 “Offene Fenster zur bunten Wirklichkeit”, Dieter Göllner
1998 Deborah Poynton catalogue essay, Jacqueline Nolte
1997 “Getting Personal”, Sharon Sorour-Morris, Femina
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2025 “Deborah Poynton”, a film by Michael Middleton
2021 video on artistic practice
2023 Talk: The Compulsion to Paint
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