Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

181 426 Bridget BAKER SOUTH AFRICAN 1 971- Bridget Baker - BAFA (Stell.) BA Hons (FA) (Stell.) MFA (UCT) cand, twelve executed 1996-7 embroidered kickboards, plastic, valves, cotton, polystyrene balls each approximately 25 by 38cm (12) R30 000–40 000 EXHIBITED part of an installation comprised of a porta-pool and 17 kickboards when first exhibited: Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, 1997 LITERATURE Sue Williamson. (2009) South African Art Now , New York: Collins Design. Illustrated in colour on page 81: ‘For Baker’s second solo show, at the Hänel Gallery in Cape Town in 1997, the artist floated kickboards, inflatable swimming aids, on the surface of the water of a portable swimming pool. Baker had hand-embroidered each with facsimiles of one of her achievement certificates, earned when she was growing up. As a child Baker had believed these achievements, such as the Special Award for Enthusiastic Service and Support, given by the Clarendon Girls High School in 1989, would help keep her afloat through the stormy seas of life. Once out of the cocoon of mediated information, it was clear to Baker that, like an easily punctured kickboard, these skills were of limited value.’ part lot