Exhibition Review:

"Trevor Coleman: Abstraction 1960-1977" surveys a period in the career of the artist Trevor Coleman during which he produced some of his most important abstract paintings. Returning from London in 1966, Coleman emerged as one of the first and most accomplished South African exponents of geometric, hard-edge abstraction.

Very few of the pioneering South African abstract artists have drawn as deeply from avant-garde innovations and styles of the time as Trevor Coleman. In his quest to overcome ‘tradition’, Coleman was not afraid to take risks and persevered, at times under much public reproach, in his pursuit of formal and technical innovation. Coleman’s influences were varied; the energetic pulse of British p...