Selected Highlights
Sanlam Portrait Competition – Top 40 (2015)
Three residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris)
Works held in private collections across South Africa and Europe
Education:
Higher Primary Teacher’s Diploma, 1973-1976 (Art and History).
Michael Pettit School of Art, 1985-1989, (Part-time studies in oil painting).
Part-time courses/workshops led by, inter alios, Diane Victor, Estelle Marais, Julia Teale.
Work Experience:
Teacher, Mowbray Primary School, Cape Town, 1977 – 1980
Co-owner and Director, Harry Goemans Garden Centre, Sunnydale, Cape Town, 1994-2018
Full-time professional artist since 2010
Exhibitions:
Solo
1998 South African Association of Art Gallery, Church Street, Cape Town
1997 Wesland Kunsvereniging, Vredendal, Cape Town
1996 Sports Science Building, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
1995 Beau Soleil Music Centre, Wynberg, Cape Town
Group (from)
2025 Association of Arts, Pretoria
2025 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2023 Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town, Portrait Competition, Top 40 (traveling exhibition)
2021 Sanlam Portrait Competition, (Rust-en-Vrede Gallery), Rupert Gallery, Stellenbosch – Top 100
2021 Liminal Hiatus, Gallery One 11, Cape Town
2020 Observatory Art Group, A5 Group Exhibition of small works, online
2019 Winter Life Exhibition, The Studio Art Gallery, Simonstown
2019 Sanlam Portrait Competition, (Rust-en-Vrede Gallery), Association for Visual Arts, Church Street, Cape Town – Top 100.
2018 Group Exhibition, Sibiu, Romania
2018 The Grand, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town
2017 The Grand, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town
2015 Sanlam Portrait Competition, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town – one in Top 40 and one in Top 100 at Irma Stern Museum, Mowbray, Cape Town
2015 Vuleka Art Competition, Art b Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town (selected)
2011 Vuleka Art Competition, Art b Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town (selected)
2010 Group Exhibition, Ardvark Gallery, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
Many others dating back to 1985, including:
2006 Portrait Exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Church Street, Cape Town
1989/1990 “Homeland”, collaboration with Welsh artists and 4 South African artists. Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Wrexham Art Centre, North Wales
1996 Group Exhibition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1994 South African Association of Arts, Exhibition of work by Cape Artists (selected)
1993 Momentum Art Competition, Pretoria Art Museum (selected)
1991 Drawing Competition, South African Association for Visual Arts, Church Street, Cape Town
1988 Volkskas Atelier Award, Regional Exhibition (selected)
Residencies:
2025 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2018 Dacia Gallery Residency, Sibiu, Romania
2012 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1996 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Member of SANAVA, CAP INSTITUTE
© Patricia Fenn 2026