Strauss & co - 7 March 2011, Cape Town

189 326 Andrew Putter SOUTH AFRICAN 1965- Hottentots Holland: Flora Capensis 5, 2008 archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 78 by 64,5cm R25 000–35 000 covered the Cape. For millions of years most of these flowers would have grown within walking distance of the studio where the photographs were taken. But to collect the flowers for these six photographs it was necessary to travel more than 2 000 kilometres, zigzagging across the Western Cape. i Andrew Putter is a leading Cape Town artist, former art teacher at Rondebosch Boys High School and former art critic for The Cape Argus and The Weekly Mail . He won a 2007 Spier Contemporary award for his work Secretly I Will Love You More , exhibited at the Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, and Johannesburg Art Gallery and now in the Permanent Collection of Iziko South African National Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include Us at Johannesburg Art Gallery (2009) and at Iziko SANG (2010); Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2009); and the 10th Havana Biennale (2009). Putter was awarded a fellowship from the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town for 2010. i For full statement see http://www. michaelstevenson.com/contemporary/ exhibitions/putter/floracapensis.htm