CIRRICULUM VITAE: GORDON FROUD
1963: / Born in Johannesburg1981: / Matriculated Dawnview High School, Primrose, Germiston.
1982 -1986: / BA(FA)Sculpture - University of the Witwatersrand
1987: / Higher Education Diploma – University of Witwatersrand
1990 – 1992
1993 - 1997 / Art and English teacher - Bryanston High School, Johannesburg
Senior Lecturer of Art - Pelmama Academy Soweto
1994 - 1999 / Part time Lecturer in Sculpture- University of Pretoria
1995 / Registered for masters degree - University of Pretoria
1998 / Part time teacher in Sculpture - Aurora College - Johannesburg
1999 / Head of Art Dept - Oaklands secondary school. Bethnal Green - London
2000 / Supply teaching at Schools in London, making Art for exhibition
2001 - 2003 / Teacher of Technology and I T at Sydney Russell school in Dagenham, London
2003 / Opened gordart Gallery, Melville, Johannesburg - November
2004 / Part time lecturer in Sculpture Technikon Witwatersrand
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2004 – 2010 / Adjudicator – Ekurhelini Art Competition
Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery
2004 / Regional Selector SASOL New Signatures Competition
2004 / Regional Selector ABSA Atelier Competition
2005 / Lecturer in Sculpture – University of Johannesburg (formerly Technikon Witwatersrand)
2005 / National Judge ABSA Atelier Competition
2005 / Chief Judge of GUNFREE SA Art Competition, Constitutional Hill, Jhb
2005 / Adjudicator of Ekurlheni Art Competition
2006 / Final Judge SASOL New Signatures Competition Pta
2006 / Regional Judge – ABSA l’Atelier competition – Jhb
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2007 / Regional Judge – ABSA l’Atelier competition – Jhb
Judge – SASOL WAX in Art Award.
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2011 / Master of Technology degree – University of Johannesburg.
Regional Selector ABSA Atelier Competition.
Co-ordinating Judge – SASOL Wax in Art Competition
External Moderator Greenside Design Centre
External examiner TUT - Pta
Regional Judge ABSA l’Atelier Competition
Judge on Pigeon Square Sculpture Competition – Wits University
External Moderator Greenside Design Centre
Final judge on PPC Cement Sculpture Competition
Regional Judge ABSA l’Atelier Competition
National Judge SASOL New Signatures exhibition
Mentor to developing artist Goodness Nhlengethwa – Artspace Gallery – Jhb
Friends of Jhb art gallery executive
Executive committee of the Arts Association - Pta
External examiner TUT - Pta
External examiner VUT – Van der Bijl Park
External examiner Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University – Port Elizabeth
External Moderator Greenside Design Centre
Advisory board for visual art – KKNK Festival - Oudtshoorn
Advisory board for visual art - Aardklop Art Festival – Potchefstroom
Friends of Jhb art gallery executive
Executive committee of the Arts Association - Pta
External examiner TUT - Pta
External examiner VUT – Van der Bijl Park
External examiner Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University – Port Elizabeth
Regional Judge ABSA l’Atelier Competition
Appointed Senior Lecturer in Sculpture – University of Johannesburg
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
1987 – 1988 / New Signatures Competitions SA Arts Association – Pretoria
1989 / New Visions exhibition – Market Gallery – Johannesburg
1992 – 1995 / PPC Cement Sculpture Exhibition SA Association of Arts, Pretoria
1993 / Volkskas Atelier Award Exhibition – Pretoria University
1993 / Curated and exhibited ‘ Drawing with Light – Photography pushes the limits’, ICA, Jhb
1993 / National Arts Initiative exhibition and auction – Durban Technicon
1993 / 702 Radio Show – Everard Read Contemporary Gallery – Johannesburg
1994 / ‘ Feb 94’ – a show for International curators Institute of Contemporary Art – Jhb
1994 / Johannesburg artists at the Chelsea Gallery – Cape Town
1994 – 1995 / Kempton Park Art Competition
1994 / University of Pretoria Staff show – Elizabeth Gordon Gallery – Durban
1994 / ‘ A Moving Experience’ – Transport show – Everard Read Contemporary – Jhb
1994 / Group Show Verwoerdburg (Centurion) gallery – Pretoria
1994 / Rainbow Nation Art Show – Thompson Gallery – Johannesburg
1994 / Curated and exhibited ‘7 Solo Sculptors’ – I C A Gallery Johannesburg
1995 / Artist from the Greater Pretoria Area – UNISA Art Gallery – Pretoria
1995 / ‘Celebrate’ – 10 years of the Chelsea Gallery – Cape Town
1995 / Curated ‘ Emergent Soweto Artists’ – Johannesburg Africus Bienalle
1995 / Curated ‘EDGE’ – disturbing works by 5 SA Women – Africus Bienalle Fringe
1995 / ‘Figureheads’ – Africus Bienalle Fringe Johannesburg
1995 / ‘Cunning Stunts’ – Artspace – Newtown Johannesburg
1995 / Volkskas Atelier Award exhibition – Stellenbosch
1995 / ‘ Some Artists’ – De Villiers Gallery – Johannesburg
1996 / ‘ New works’ – Pretoria University staff show – Campus Gallery Pretoria
1996 / ‘ Gay rights / rewrites’ – Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg
1996 / ‘Something Borrowed...’ – 2 person show – Civic Gallery Johannesburg
1996 / Kempton Park Art Competition
1996 / Art Alive – WHPS School – Pretoria
1996 / ‘ Space to Breathe’ – Environment exhibition Pretoria Art Museum
1996 / Volkskas Atelier Award selection show – SA Arts Association – Pretoria
1996 / Volkskas Atelier Award – Pretoria Art Museum
1996 / ‘ Barber Shop signs’ Standard Bank gallery – Johannesburg
1996 / Post Graduate exhibition NSA Gallery – Durban
1996 / ‘ Groundswell’ – SA artists – Mermaid Gallery – London
1996 / Open Window Art Galley – Inaugral exhibition – Pretoria
1996 / PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Competition – Arts Association of Pretoria
1996 / Selected to represent South Africa at the 6th International Cairo Bienalle
1996 / Inaugral exhibition of ‘Small Spaces’ – Carfax , Newtown – Johannesburg
1996 / 50th Anniversary show – Friends of the Pretoria Art Museum, Caf’ Palette, Pretoria
1996 / Boxes – Pretoria Lecturers show – Centurion Gallery Centurion – Pretoria
1996 / Exhibition for Japanese Curator – Keith Alexander studio – Johannesburg
1997 / Eurovirus – Carfax Gallery – Johanesburg
1997 / “SCORCH” – One person Installation – Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet – Cape Town
1997 / Kempton Park Art Competition
1997 / Volkskas Atelier Award – Bloemfontein
1997 / Gallery on Tyrone – Johannesburg
1997 / Arts Alive – WHPS School Pretoria
1997 / North goes South – SA Representation to 6th International Bienalle of Cairo – Civic Gallery, Jhb
1997 / Represented South Africa at the 2nd International Plein Aire Workshop in Ryn – Poland
1997 / Curated and exhibited on “ A little BIG THING” - a show of erotic miniatures - Thompson Gallery
1997 / Participated in the ECHOES production of NO4 – The old Fort Prison , Hillbrow Johannesburg
1998 / Klein Karoo Arts Festival – Oudtshoorn – “SA Sculpture Today”
1998 / VITIATE VESTIGES VOLITION – 3 Person show – AVA Gallery, Cape Town / Parkview – Jhb
1998 / Launch of Galley 111 – Bezuidenhout Valley – Johannesburg
1998 / Volkskas Atelier Competition – Pietersburg Art Gallery
1998 / Kempton Park Art Competition – Kempton Park
1998 / Images and Spirit of Africa – Arts Association , Pretoria
1998 / Artists from the Bag Factory – Sandton Civic Art Gallery
1998 / Curated and exhibited on “BUTTONS” – Civic Gallery, Johannesburg
1998 / Art Auction – Carfax Experience, Johannesburg
1998 / Co- curated and exhibited on “IM-MATERIAL-ISM” – Open Window Academy, Pretoria
1998 / Group Show at Theatre Gallery – Durbanville – Cape Town
1999 / “Transmigrations – Rituals and objects” – Civic Gallery Jhb
1999 / Aspects of Alice – One Person Show – NSA Gallery Durban
1999 / Volkskas Atelier Award winners show – ABSA Gallery – Jhb
1999 / Cell phone pouches – Civic Gallery, Jhb
1999 / “Transmigrations” – Artshare Gallery – Los Angeles
1999 / “Transmigrations” – University of Baja California – Tijuana, Mexico
2000 / Curated and exhibited on “After New York” – Ampersand Foundation Show- Civic Gallery, Jhb
2000 / “Transmigrations” – Angels Gate Cultural Centre – San Pedro, Los Angeles
2000 / Gallery 111 – Kensington, Johannesburg
2000 / Deptford Open – Deptford X, London
2000 / August – September – Residency at Cite des Arts International – Paris
2000 / “The Grand Picnic” – 2 person show – Cite des Arts International, Paris.
2000 / Goya Ceramic Plate exhibition – Arts Association of Pretoria
2000 / Christmas Exhibition – Arts association Pretoria
2000 / “Containers” – Bellville, Cape Town
2000 / T Shirt exhibition – Civic Gallery, Johannesburg
2001 / Smoking Lady – Carfax Experience, Johannesburg
2001 / “Plastic by Nature” – African Window Museum, Pretoria. – Solo Exhibition
2001 / Dust Gallery – Farringdon, London
2001 / “Clean” - Colourless Artworks – Millenium 2 Gallery - Rosebank, Johannesburg
2002 / Grime – Black Artworks at Bell Roberts Gallery Cape Town
2002 / Lost & Found Solo show at Minds ( I ) Gallery Pretoria.
2002 / Plastic By nature – Solo show at Alliance Francaise – Johannesburg
2002 / Fantastic Rubbish – container exhibition at the World Summit – Johannesburg
2003 / Clean & Grime – Karoo Kunste Fees – Oudtshoorn
2003 / 12 x 12 – A show of miniatures – Umbria University United Kingdom
2003 / Participated in a group show at Mansfield Gallery, Glasgow Scotland.
2003 / “Lost and Found”- artb – Belville, Cape Town – Solo show.
2003 / “Lost and Found” – Merely Mortal Gallery, Craighall, Johannesburg – Solo show.
2003 / Ampersand Foundation show – Warren Siebritz Gallery – Johannesburg
2003 / Self Portrait exhibition – Rust en Vrede Gallery – Durbanville, Cape Town
2003 / “Small stuffed Christmas show” – Gordart Gallery’ Melville Jhb
2003 / Group Show at Bronze Age Foundry – Simonstown Cape Town
2004 / Launch exhibition of art.co.za Gallery, Parkhurst , Johannesburg
2004 / “For the record” – Gordart gallery, Melville Johannesburg
2004 / “For the record” Aardklop Festival Potchefstroom
2004 / “ Cube” – Carfax gallery – Jhb
2004 / “Geslag” - Aardklop Festival – Potchefstroom
2004 / Waste Art Exhibition – Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Jhb
2004 / Group exhibition for re-launch of Merely Mortal Gallery, Jhb
2004 / Curated the Hanging of the Broken Doll exhibition against Child abuse UNISA Gallery Pretoria and teddy Bear clinic Jhb
2004 / “Open End” German / South African Collaborative exhibition on HIV/ AIDS and gender – Museum Africa, Jhb,
2004 / 10 x 10 cm Christmas Box show, gordart gallery, Jhb
2005 / Arts Association, Pretoria – Members exhibition
2005 / “MAN” – exhibition of Male artists – rust en Vrede gallery, Durbanville Cape Town
2005 / “Funktional” – functional artworks – gordart Gallery, Melville Jhb
2005 / Curated “Far and Wide” – group show at ABSA Gallery, Jhb
2005 / Curated “PORN AGAIN” Erotic exhibition at Merely Mortal gallery, Craighall, Jhb
2005 / Curated “Beeldspraak” – a 52 week exhibition in the Beeld Newspaper
2005 / Inaugral exhibition of Fried Gallery – Pretoria
2005 / Feet – Group exhibition – The secret gallery Pretoria
2005 / Dionysus Sculpture Works group show – Arts association – Pretoria
2005 / Group Exhibition at Oliewenhuis Museum – Bloemfontein
2005 / Splat – gordart Gallery – Johannesburg
2005 / Sacred Heart Exhibition – Brazil?
2006 / Curated 40 x 40 x 40 show at Klein Karoo Nationale Kunste Fees – Oudtshoorn
2006 / Beeldspraak Art Auction – University of Jhb Art Centre
2006 / Auction for the Friends of the cat – Arts Association - Pretoria
2006 / Showed – ‘Cows and More’ – at Klein Karoo Nationale Kunste Fees – Oudtshoorn
2006 / Remembering Rembrandt – group show at Arts Association – Pretoria
2006 / Beeldspraak – exhibition – University of Johannesburg Gallery – Jhb
2006 / Voir Gallery First Birthday celebration show – Pretoria
2006 / Curated ‘First Chapter’ – a gordart Gallery retrospective – Aardklop Potchefstroom
2006 / Participated in ‘ Guilt’ the inaugural exhibition at Studio Gallery, Picketburg Cape Town
2006 / 7 Deadly sins exhibition Rust en Vrede gallery, Durbanville Cape Town
2006 / I love you – positive/negative – Alliance Francaise - Johannesburg
2006 / Book Arts and Electronic interface, Aardklop and University of Jhb Gallery – curated by David Paton
2006 / Waste Art at Work exhibition – Hollard Insurance Head Quarters Jhb, then Spier Estate Cape Town
2006 / Curated the professional section and exhibited on the Enviroserve Waste Art Expo – Rosebank Mall Johannesburg
2006 / Turning Tables – Artspace Johannesburg – Group Show
2007 / Curated and exhibited “…Van Boerekitsch en ander dinge…” KKNK - Oudtshoorn
2007 / ‘Flesh’ – erotic exhibition – KKNK Oudtshoorn.
2007 / ‘Roem’ curated for KKNK by Sandra Hanekom – Oudtshoorn
2007 / St Sebastian – Group show at Arts Association Pretoria
2007 / Relaunch of Secret Gallery Pretoria – group show
2007 / Staff invitational show at University of Johannesburg FADA Gallery
2007 / Boerekitsch – group show – Magpie Gallery - Pretoria
2007 / Thought traffic – group show of drawing – Premises Gallery, Johannesburg
2007 / Previous ABSA l’atelier Award winners show - KKNK Oudtshoorn
2007 / World Cup Rugby exhibition around Aids and HIV Paris France
2007 / Love Story group show at IArt Gallery – Cape Town
2007 / Launch exhibition of OFF THE WALL Gallery Paarl, Cape Town
2007 / Creative Creatures interactive interdisciplinary exhibition. Potchefstroom
2007 / Sasol Miniatures Exhibition – Jhb
2007 / Miniatures exhibition – Atelier Gallery Picketburg
2007 / Contemporary Visions of Africa – Pretoria Art Museum
2007 / Creative creatures - Grande Provence Wine Estate – Franschoek
2007 / On Paper – group show – Off the Wall Gallery, Paarl
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2008 / 4 Person Show at Magpie Gallery Centurion
MAP – Harrie’s pancakes – Pretoria
Group exhibition – Harrie Siertsema Gallery Richmond
Represented SA at ‘Juventude’ workshop Maputo – Mocambique.
Pretoria University Centenary Exhibition.
Outsite – site specific work Vaal Triangle University of Technology
Testosterone group sculpture show – Magpie Gallery Pta
Drawing exhibition – Magpie Gallery – Pta.
INTERVENTIONS – UNISA Art Gallery Pta.
Refresh /Refuel – 60th Anniversary of Arts association Pretoria.
Decadance at Grande Provence – Franshoek.
Rendezvous: Focus Wearable Art – University of Johannesburg
Rendezvous: Focus Wearable Art – Aardklop festival Potchefstroom
Commissioned to create a bedroom for the Graskop Hotel – Graskop
Urban Eye Launch of Kyk Gallery Pretoria.
Innibos Art festival – Nelspruit.
Postcards exhibition – Off the Wall Gallery – Lourensford Wine estate.
Dionysus Sculpture works exhibition Sarronsburg Wine Estate
Curated and showed on Sell, Sell, Sell – Aardklop Festiavl Potchefstroom.
Eskom Lighting Competition – University of Johannesburg.
2008 University of Johannesburg staff exhibition FADA Gallery – Jhb.