Biography
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During her Fine Arts degree at Wits, Thea had the opportunity to be taught by several well-known artists , notably Paul Stopforth, Neels Coetzee and Judith Mason. In that time, she was awarded the Henri Lidchi prize for drawing on two occasions. Thea held her first exhibition at The Market Gallery in 1981 and, in 1984, had her first solo exhibition at the Goodman Gallery where she continued to exhibit her work over the next fifteen years.
While working as an art director and designer, she began holding art classes at Femma Gavin’s studio, working on commissions and continuing her art practice. In the early 1990s, she held art classes at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and was on the advisory board of the Market Gallery, headed by David Goldblatt. In 1992, Thea spent eight months as artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Since then she has taken up three residencies at the Cité for shorter periods. She started to exhibit her work internationally in 1996, and began her art school teaching drawing and painting in the same year.
Thea held a solo show at Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, in 2004, and in 2007 she began to exhibit with the Everard Read Gallery, with whom she continues to show. Her upcoming exhibition will take place at Everard Read, Johannesburg in June 2021.
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Thea’s work forms part of private, public and corporate collections namely Constitutional Court, South Africa, Alliance Française, South Africa and Anglo American, South Africa.
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Thea is represented by Everard Read Galley - everard-read.co.za.
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UPCOMING
2021 Everard Read, Johannesburg
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Everard Read, Johannesburg
2008 Everard Read, Johannesburg
2004 Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
1999 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1997 Eglise Romane de Mont-St. Martin, Mont St-Martin (France)
1996 Alliance Française, Johannesburg
1995 On-Gallérie, Knokke (Belgium)
1994 Grange du Faing, Centre d’Art, Jamoigne (Belgium)
Contemporain du Luxembourg Belge
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
South African Association of Arts, Cape Town
1989 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1984 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
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RESIDENCIES
2020 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2019 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2004 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1992 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
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ART FAIRS
2015-2016 Johannesburg Art Fair
2007-2013 Johannesburg Art Fair
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GROUP EXHIBITONS
2020 Winter 2020, Everard Read, London
2018 Everard Read, Johannesburg
2016 Christman Collections, Everard Read, London
CIRCA, Summer Show, London
2011 Horse, Everard Read and CIRCA, Johannesburg
2007 Everard Read, Johannesburg
2006 Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2005 Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2003 Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
1996 Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg (Netherlands)
1995 First Gallery, Johannesburg
1994 Market Gallery, Johannesburg
1981 Market Gallery, Johannesburg
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OEUVRE CROISËE DENMARK/THEA SOGGOT
1997 Städtische Galerie, Dresden (Germany)
Bergisch Gladbach (Germany)
1996 Ferme de Buisson, Marne la Vallée (France)
1995 Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen (Belgium)
Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders
1994 Institut Français, Bremen (Germany)
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Thea’s work forms part of private, public and corporate collections including:
Constitutional Court, South Africa
Alliance Française, South Africa
Anglo American, South Africa
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