Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

43 EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 88 NELSON MAKAMO SOUTH AFRICAN 1982– Easy Mood signed, dated 2012, numbered B.A.T, inscribed with the titled in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin screenprint sheet size: 107,5 by 78,5 cm; image size: 99,5 by 78,5 cm R12 000 – 16 000 Nelson Makamo , born in 1982, is an artist and printmaker from Nylstroom, Limpopo. He participated in a number of local exhibitions in Limpopo before attending Artist Proof Studio in 2002 where he received his APS Certificate in Advanced Professional Printmaking in 2005. Nelson worked as Gallery Assistant for the APS before becoming a professional artist. He held his first solo show at the Obert Contemporary Art Gallery in Melrose Arch in 2005 and has exhibited locally and internationally, in the Netherlands and Italy. Nelson was selected as Art South Africa’s seventh ‘Bright Young Thing’ in 2007. Nelson says that ‘My work is my life, pain and joy from the first piece to the last piece, and in my work I am a storyteller, a narrator. I tell stories of places I have been, people I have met, but most importantly, I beautify everything that is before my eyes’. DONATED BY THE ARTIST for the APS Education Endowment Fund