206pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Stellenbosch, 2024
Published to accompany the exhibition, Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, March - November 2024.
Features 100 artworks from the collection by modern and contemporary South African painters and sculptors, including Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser, Cecil Higgs, Jean Welz, Anton van Wouw, and many others.
Journalist and author Amanda Botha has published biographies of ballerina Phyllis Spira and artist Majorie Wallace and compiled two anthologies of poetry by Sheila Cussons. She has written scripts for TV documentaries on South African writers such as Louis C Leipoldt, Sheila Cussons, N P van Wyk Louw, Anna M. Louw, Freda Linde and Hennie Aucamp, painters such as Paul du Toit and Sheila Nowers and performing artists such as Phyllis Spira, Eduard Greyling and Hermien Dommisse. She lives in Cape Town.