BIOGRAPHY: Bronwen Findlay
Intense colour, vigourous paint, delight in the decorative and the elevation of the ordinary: these qualities characterise Bronwen Findlay's distinctive vision, which is strongly self-reflexive and personal. She challenges traditionally held assumptions about heirarchies and value by selecting autobiographical subjects and domestic settings that are often dismissively associated with 'the female realm'. Findlay presents a persuasive argument for the relevance and significance of the everyday, by exploring issues of transience and change through the mechanisms of irony, sentimentality and embellishment, in a powerful affirmation of life.
Julia Charlton
Senior Curator, University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries Johannesburg, 2007