Selvin November (b. 1969) was born in, and still lives and works in Cape Town. He completed a Diploma in Art and Design at Cape Technikon and was awarded a three-month residency on Robben Island in 1996. His latest solo exhibitions were The Portrait Speaks at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town in 2008 and Young, Free and Single, as the Festival Artist at the University of Stellenbosch Woordfees 2019. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions - the most recent being a group show at the AVA gallery, entitled, Salon Cape Town, in 2018
About
I’m an artist who explores socio-political issues such as globalisation, identity and memory, utilising design and visual language to express my ideas onto a painted surface. My current work explores the notion of freedom and its binary slavery. The work explores ideas pertaining to what it means to be free in our current socio-political landscape.
I mainly work with brush and oil paint. I enjoy the versatility of both and the mark and stroke variations that can be achieved by the combination of the two. I love mixing my own colours and enjoy the tactile feeling of applying those paints onto the canvas. I can easily mix oils with other mediums to achieve the right consistency to layer meaning into my works. It helps me to explore my subject matter through the patterns that emerge.