LADY SKOLLIE

Skollie graduated with a degree in History of Art and Dutch Literature from the University of Cape Town in 2009 and trained in printmaking. In 2022 she was named the winner of the prestigious winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist award. In 2020 she became the 10th recipient of the prestigious FNB Art Prize. In 2019 was recognised with the 2019 Mbokodo Award for Art and Design, which celebrates the pioneering spirit of South African women advancing the arts. That same year she also received the GQ Woman of the Year Award, and was commissioned to design the R5 coin to commemorate 25 years of constitutional democracy in South Africa. In 2018 she was included in OkayAfrica’s 100 Women, an annual list honouring significant African woman. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg (2021), Circa Gallery, Johannesburg (2019), the Tyburn Gallery, London (2017), the Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg (2016), Cape Town Art Fair (2015), WorldArt Gallery, Cape Town (2015)