Bonita Alice

I am a South African artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I lectured in Sculpture in Johannesburg before moving to London in 2007. I returned to South Africa in 2020. My work reflects my concern with our emotional dependence on the natural environment, and our conflicted and inconsistent relationship with other animals. I am preoccupied with the idea, reflected in my artistic practice, that we suffer some kind of emotional disruption when we are inattentive and don’t recognise our duty of stewardship to the natural world of which we are a part. The result is internal, or emotional, chaos - individual or collective - in the human world which is expressed in external crises; in environmental destruction, for example. My work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Durban Art Gallery, The UNISA (University of SA) Art Gallery, The SA Reserve Bank, Standard Bank Collection, WAM (Art Museum of the University of the Witwatersrand).

BAFA University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1984
MFA University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1990
Art Critical Writing Module, MAFA, University of the Witwatersrand, 2004

Solo exhibitions include:
2023 - Unbearable Heroes - Nel Gallery, Cape Town
2015 - Strangers of Commanding Aspect - AOP Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2012 - Beast In A Dangerous Landscape - AOP
2010 - Beast At Home - AOP
2007 - Anticipated Memory - AOP
2005 - Promised Land - Shown in Johannesburg, Durban and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Group Exhibitions include :
2016 Doctor Dolittle's Daughters, Exhibition with Fiona McDonald, V22, Louise House, Forest Hill, London
2008 Beyond Matter, London
2002 A.R.E.A. - Exhibition of Contemporary South African Art, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2002 Site-specific work commissioned for Sao Paulo Bienal