---
title: Retha Erasmus
description: "Artist exploring themes of relating, bonds, connection, loss, formal/ visual aspects of art "
url: "https://www.artsume.com/a/retha-erasmus"
type: artist
createdAt: 2026-04-16
updatedAt: 2026-04-16
disciplines:
  - Drawing
  - Sculpture
  - Printmaking
  - Photography
  - Book Arts
location: "Kommetjie, WC, South Africa"
---

# Retha Erasmus

*Artist exploring themes of relating, bonds, connection, loss, formal/ visual aspects of art  | Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, Book Arts | Based in Kommetjie, WC, South Africa*

## Curriculum Vitae

### Education

- **2020** - BA Fine arts , in Sculpture , University of Pretoria , Pretoria

### Group Exhibitions

- **2026** - "Afroblue," Fondation Blachere, Bonnieux, France  Bonnieux (Curated by Joana Danimbe )
- **2025** - "A beast with two backs ," Association for visual arts, Cape Town  Cape Town (Curated by Kelly Schinners )
- **2024** - "Chimeres ," Fondation Blachere, Bonnieux, France  Bonnieux (Curated by Joana Danimbe )
- **2017** - "A painting today ," Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town  Cape Town (Curated by Multiple )
- **2009** - "Summer 2009/10: Projects, ," Stevenson art gallery, Cape Town Cape Town (Curated by Michael Stevenson )

### Awards & Grants

- **2000** - Sasol New Signatures , Pretoria Art Musuem 
- **2000** - PPC Young Sculptor award, Arts Association of Pretoria 

### Residencies

- **2026** - Fondation Blachere Artist residence , Fondation Blachere , Bonnieux
- **2002** - Ampersand foundation residency , Ampersand Foundation , New York

### Collections

- Fondation Blachere , Bonnieux, (Public)
- University of South Africa , Tshwane NU, (Public)

### Curatorial Projects

- **2003** - "Grime ," Bell-Roberts art gallery  Cape Town
- **2002** - "Clean: An Exhibition of De-saturated Contemporary Art," Millennium gallery  Johannesburg

## Portfolio

### From one to the other  (2024)

*Acrylic ink on paper*

*124cm length x 45cm wide*

Ink drawing using a nib pen and ink washes on paper

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### Line study  (2024)

*Drypoint etching*

*39cm length x 25cm breadth*

Drypoint etching on cotton paper

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### Black Sculpture Maquette  (2024)

*Wood, Aluminum, Fishline, Uv lights, oil paint*

*1,8m length, 1,5m height, 1,2m breadth*

Constructed wooden elements painted in black oil paint put together to form two structures slightly elevated from the surface it rests upon. These placed in a large vitrine base. Between them a fishline element is placed on the surface of the vitrine underneath the two skeletal structures. UV lights placed between carefully upon the black structural elements, above the fishing line grid, within the table-like vitrine.

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### Blue Chrysanthemum flower  (2021)

*Ink on paper*

*27 length x 20 height*

Lines scratched into paper to create the image of a chrysanthemum flower, covered in a layer of water soluble blue ink.

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### Us, Together/ line drawing I   (2015)

*Acrylic ink on paper*

*111 cm length x 80 cm height*

This drawing was created using a nib pen dipped in red acrylic ink, studiously placing line over line to create the two shapes on the paper.