Tyrone Appollis

**Tyrone Appollis** nyɛla South Africanima nuchee ni baŋda.

## Shikuru baŋsim
O nyɛla ŋun daa bɔhim nuchee ni baŋsim Community Arts Project, Cecil Skotnes

Bin din gbaai yuuni 1982 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1987, o nyɛla ŋun daa be Mitchells Plain Art Group yuuni 1988. 

## Selected exhibitions
**1982**: Rocklands Library, Mitchells Plain, Cape.

**1988**: Solo exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town
Luxurama Theatre, Wynberg, Cape (Artists Against Apartheid)University of the Western Cape, mural.

**1989**: British Council Offices, Johannesburg
Rahmen Galerie, Langei, Germany (with Peter Clarke and Ishmel Thyssen)

**1990**: Solo exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Worcester, Cape
The Conservatoire of Music, Windhoek (Namibian Independence Exhibition)

**1991**: South African Triennial

**1992**: Solo Exhibition, Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape

**1993**: Solo Exhibition, Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg
Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France

**1997**: Solo exhibition South African Association of Arts, Cape Town

## Works Appearing on Book Jackets

**Contrast* Magazine – 1985/1986
**Emergency* by Richard Rive
**Ten Years of Staffrider*, 1988
**A Walk in the Night* and *Stone Country* by Alex La Guma
**The Struggle for District Six* – Hands Off District Six Committee
**William Zungu* by Ari Sitas

## Publications
2010: Friends pitch in for jazz maestro cancer

2009: *Cultural vagabond has his own flair*, Cape Times, August 27. T Appollis, ''The Silver Saxophone'' , Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. Appollis & Maclay-Mayers, *The Magic Paintbrush*, Cambridge University Press, Cape Town. S Hundt (ed.), Decade, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville (exhibition catalogue).

2008: Tyrone Appollis, *Train to Mitchells Plain*, Tyrone Appollis, Cape Town. Appollis art exhibition, Cape Times, September 9.

2006: S Hundt (ed.), *Tyrone Appollis-Today and yesterday*, Sanlam Life Insurance, Bellville. *Appollis presents a study of contradictions*, Cape Argus, September 1. Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 4: Conversation with Tyrone Appollis, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue).

2005: C Blum, Kapkunst/Cape Art: 12 Portraits of South African Artists, Murmann, Hamburg. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 2: Conversations with Sophie Peters, OMAM, Cape Town.

2004: M Darrol et al., Art for Aids Orphans Auction, Paperback, Cape Town. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Conversations with South African artists, OMAM, Cape Town. The rights of a child, Kwela Books, Cape Town & Lemniscaat, Rotterdam.

2003: McGee and Voyiya, *The Luggage is Still Labelled: Blackness in South african Art* (DVD).

1993: M Martin et al., *Made in Wood: Work from the Western Cape*, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

1991: C Till et al., Cape Town Triennial, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Cape Town. Tribute Magazine. A Sitas, William Zungu-Xmas Story, Buchu Books, Cape Town.

1988: G Ogilvie, *The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors*, Everard Read, Johannesburg. An Oliphant, *Ten Years of Staffrider*, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. R Rive, *Emergency*, David Philip Publishers, Claremont.

## Collections
Public collections: Iziko South African National Gallery, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape; Western Cape Provincial Government; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; South Africa House, London; Department of Education, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital; Constitutional Court of South Africa; SASOL and SANLAM.

Private collections: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Judge Albie Sachs, former President Nelson Mandela and former President Thabo Mbeki.

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