2022 “Bilder mit Sogwirkung” Johanna Bayram, July/August edition Kunst:Art, Germany – Deborah Poynton
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Deborah Poynton

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    • 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: details of paintings
    • 2020 Beyond Belief 8-panel work
    • 2020 Fool’s Gold: 10 small paintings
    • 2019 Self and Self: progress composite
    • 2019 Memory of What Never Was: Large Paintings
      • 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: 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
      • 2023 Vertigo Exhibition Text
      • 2023 Vertigo: texts for individual paintings
      • 2023 Drawings on Black Paper
      • 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” 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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2022 “Bilder mit Sogwirkung” Johanna Bayram, July/August edition Kunst:Art, Germany

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