The Bird Art Group Exhibition at The Cape Gallery opens on 5 June, First Thursdays, and keen bird watchers and the public alike will be sure to enjoy this exhibition.
Birds are among nature’s most decorative creatures, some sporting bright plumage, others are more discreetly toned and honed to fit with the environment. An observant artist studying birds can further our understanding of how birds adapt to survive.
Peter Gray, born in Zimbabwe and living in SA today is an internationally acclaimed bird artist who is well represented on this exhibition. He has participated in many prestigious exhibitions here and abroad. See above: Peter Gray/ Eagle Eyes/ 80 x 60 cm/ Oil on canvas.
.Michaelis graduate Elizabeth Poulsom has, for many years, been an advocate for The African Penguin, volunteering to clean them after oil spills. Her oil paintings of the African Penguins at the Boulders beach just beyond Simonstown have a commanding presence.
Elizabeth Poulsom -Brought to Stand
The Cape Gallery is privileged to show Ingrid Weiersbye’s paintings; a study of the Nerina Trogon, a bird the French ornithologist, Francois Levaillant is reputed to have named after a beautiful Hottentot girl. Ingrid Weiersbye has contributed illustrations to several editions of the Roberts Book of birds. the Roberts Bird Guide to the Kruger National Park and, as the sole illustrator and co-publisher of the ‘Roberts Geographic Variation of Southern African Birds’.
Ingrid Weiersbye – Nerina Trogon
Dr. Austin Roberts’ Birds of South Africa with the original illustrations by Norman Lighton first appeared in the 1940s and in the first 17 years 35000 copies were sold awakening an interest in Southern African Birds.
Today, the biodiversity of bird populations is threatened with extinction by human encroachment and competition for resources. Bird Life and SANCCOB are two organisations seeking to protect important biodiversity areas in South Africa for the appreciation of the next generations.
In a recent legal victory claimed in favour of the African Penguins Bird Life SA posted an announcement on their website:
“We are thrilled to announce that today, at the High Court in Pretoria, an order of court was issued after a hard-won settlement agreement was reached by BirdLife South Africa and SANCCOB (represented by the Biodiversity Law Centre) with commercial sardine and anchovy purse-seine fishers (subsequently endorsed by the State). This order of court is an historic victory in the ongoing battle to save the Critically Endangered African Penguin from extinction in the wild!”
Featured Artists in Bird Life
Jean Abrie, Heidi Burstein, Boniface Chikwenhere, David Cubin, Katrin Dorje, Peter Gray, Bridget Heneck, Barry Jackson, Angela Key, Natalia Kononova, Karin Kruger, Robert G Marshall, Joan Martin, Hastings Masina, John Moore, John Perry, Elizabeth Poulsom, Christopher Reid, Joan Schrauwen, David Thorpe, Cobus van der Walt, Ingrid Weiersbye, Judy Woodborne
Fly to The Cape Gallery and ENJOY this comprehensive group exhibition, Bird Life running through to 4 July 2025
WHAT: Bird Art, Group Exhibition
WHERE: The Cape Gallery, 60 Church Street Gallery, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening First Thursdays 5 June @4pm – RSVP E web@capegallery.co.za. | Closing: 4th July 2025
INFO: T +27 21 4235309 | E web@capegallery.co.za | VISIT | see also Cape Town Green Map
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