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NATALIE KNIGHT
REFRAMING A LIFE
REFRAMING AN IDEA IS ONE THING . REFRAMING A LIFE IS QUITE ANOTHER . Batya Bricker
RE | FRAME
Verb 1 . place ( a picture or photograph ) in a new frame . 2 . frame or express ( words or a concept or plan ) differently :
Recipient of the Lifetime Achiever Award for Africa for contribution to Arts and Culture , Natalie Knight is renowned as a collector and documentor of Ndebele and Shangaan art . At the Natalie Knight Gallery in Hyde Park ( 1980- 1995 ), a cultural institution , she exhibited
“ Blending religious and secular is what a Torah Jew in the modern world must do .” international art and promoted little known black artists who have now made their names . She has written and / or edited several art books , curated several shows to celebrate Nelson Mandela and served as Art curator at Wits on the West Campus for four years .
Her Art-o-Biography , The Big Picture , is part-memoir , partart history , filled with beautiful art images , society photos of the time and the stories behind many of the pieces she sold . In it , Natalie remembers the guts , glory ( and a little gossip )
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