Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

19 EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 70 PAUL EDMUNDS SOUTH AFRICAN 1970– Contour signed, numbered 3/10 in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin linocut sheet size: 119,5 by 105,5 cm; image size: 179,5 by 89 cm R25 000 – 35 000 Paul Edmunds , born in 1970, is a Cape Town based artist, from Johannesburg. He obtained his BA from WITS University, followed by an MFA (cum laude) from the University of Natal. Edmunds has held a number of solo exhibitions and commissions in South Africa. He also won the Tollman Award (2007), and the Volkskas Atelier Award (1992). In 2010 he was awarded an Ampersand Foundation residency in New York, and held his first US solo exhibition at RH Gallery, New York, in 2011. He was included on Impressions from South Africa at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2011. Edmunds employs various media to reveal layered visions concerned with his identity living in post-apartheid South Africa, ‘My work is characterised by an unconventional use of materials and cumulative processes as well as an ongoing exploration of pattern. On the cusp between abstraction and representation, my work seems more concerned with process’.