LORIENNE LOTZ

(b. Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)

Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Lorienne Lotz currently lives in Cape Town. She completed a post-

graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Michaelis UCT (2013) and was awarded a Sasol New Signatures Merit Award (2014). Lotz studied in the 1980s under Bill Ainslie at the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Since 2008, the annual intensive Rosenclaire workshops in Italy and South Africa (run by duo Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky) as well as the Astar process and painting sessions with Lindy Solomon are influences which have been instrumental in forging Lotz’s deeply intuitive material process and awareness of a formal language. Her work is held locally and internationally in private collections.

‘I attempt to re-connect with the deeply embedded narratives which underpin the dichotomies of the contemporary human experience at both a microcosmic and macrocosmic level thus revealing the paradoxes, irony, contrasts, and counter-points that are in constant friction to one another, and yet are always interdependent. It is from this that disparate images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned and where the results are deconstructed in an attempt to subvert meaning so as to enable a multifaceted interpretation.’

SOLO SHOWS

2024

No Angels, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023

Thinking out Loud, Everard Read, London, UK

2021

Bated Breath, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2019

Stru’s Bob, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2014   

Not Written in Stone, Commune.1, Cape Town, South Africa
More than a pinch of salt, Youngblood, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2024  

Winter Collection, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2023

What I Feel When I Think About The Cosmos, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

The Other’s Warmth, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2022

Things I’d like to remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2021   

Oasis, 25th anniversary group show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2020

Still, online group exhibition, Everard Read, South Africa & UK

2019

Conversations with Irma, UCT Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

2017

Cubicle Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Winter Collection, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2016

Rose Korber’s Summer Salon, Provenance Auction House, Cape Town, South Africa

2015   

Empire,  Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Hamburg Affordable Art Fair, with Youngblood, Hamburg, Germany

Art/Out of the Ordinary, AVA, Cape Town, South Africa

2014   

Modern Painting, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, South Africa

Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

2013   

My Mother’s Garden, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012   

Domestic Departures, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town, South Africa