BIOGRAPHY
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME
(b. 1958 Cape Town, South Africa)
Penelope Stutterheime is a South African artist currently living and working in Cape Town. She began painting seriously in her early twenties, is largely self-taught and has been painting for over three decades.
The daughter of a forester, Stutterheime developed her intense love for landscape as a child, growing up in Newlands Forest, Cape Town. Later she studied part-time with the artist Simon Stone and the late Bill Ainslie, one of South Africa’s finest abstractionists.
Stutterheime’s work is highly symbolic, drawing from dream images and the unconscious. Conveyed through colour and form, the images are a representation of transformation. Her paintings are a portrayal of her own inner spiritual process. ‘The work reveals a slow unfolding, which continues still, of finding my voice, my dance, my melody. It is nourished by intense feeling, emotion contained on a white canvas, to be felt, to be experienced, to be read from the place where no words yet lie’, says Stutterheime.
Stutterheime has participated in solo and group exhibitions consistently over the past thirty years. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections around the world including Investec, Nashua, Cazenove and Old Mutual
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Spring, group show, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
Sanctuary, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 Mapping the Interior, Everard Read, London, UK
Mapping, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Merging, Everard Read, London, UK
2012 Love Poem, solo show, Myerson Fine Art, London, UK
2011 Exhale, solo show, Myerson Fine Art, London, UK
2010 New Works, solo show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Solo exhibition with iArt, Cape Town, South Africa
2005 Solo exhibition with Myerson Fine Art, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Oasis, Everard Read, UK and South Africa
Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Transitory Terrain, Everard Read, London, UK
2020 Still, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK and South Africa
Staring Straight to the Future, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK and South Africa
2019 Southern Aspect, Everard Read, London, UK
Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Summer, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Winter Collection, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Cubicle Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Opening Gallery Exhibition, CIRCA London, London, UK
2015 The Yearning, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Summer Exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Winter Exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 A Sense of Place, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Winter Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Small Works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 15th Anniversary, group show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 Rose Korber Art Salon, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 Rising Up, Myerson Fine Art, London, UK
2008 A Way Through, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2005 Art London with Myerson Fine Art
2000-07 Rose Korber Art Salon, Cape Town, South Africa
2005&06 Group exhibitions with Rose Korber at Grande Provence, Franschhoek, South Africa
2001 Group show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
