Garth Erasmus

Garth Ersasmus was born in April 12, 1956 in Uitenhage Easten Cape South Africa ) He is a South African artist works with several media including painting.

Erasmus attended Peterson High in Port Elizabeth and later attended a teachers training program at Training Collagee in Cape Town. He later attended Rhodes University,and founded the community artists organization Vakalisa Arts Associates in the Tupelo Workshop programduring the 1980s.

Eramus’work is represented in several art collactions, includingthe National Museum of African art and the Smithsonian Institution. among other formats Erasmus is known for his Resistance Art protesting the apartheid regime in South Africa.Beginning as graffit protest art his State of Emergency series depicts images of entrapment.Writing in a view of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of art 2002 exhibition Encoiunters with the contemporary , critic mark D’Amato called Erasmus painting the Muse 3[1995] ‘a highlight. ,Erasmus work uses his archival research to approach his Khoisan lineage,and drawing on figures from Khoisan cosmology. Erasmus has ”empoyed Afrikaans text to commment on the brutal Khoisan history and its impact on present descendants,opening a window onto the way this history has been repressed .

He has also provided illustration for numerous books,including Nape’a Montana’s book of proverbs, published in 2004,as well as volume of conversations with figures from Cape Town’s District 6.