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(1943-) Artist, journalist, writer and playwright.
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Biography
Born in Ellisras, in the district of the Waterberg, and matriculated at the Hoër Landbouskool Merensky, an agriculatural college in Tzaneen.
Education and training
After completing his military service for a year after school, he decided to study drama, but was dissuaded by his father. He was then appointed as a journalist at Die Vaderland, where he stayed for a year, before completing a BA in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Career
Career as an arts journalist
In 1955 he once again joined Die Vaderland as art editor and remained there for 5 years, apart from a short break to go oversees to start a singing career.
Career as an artist
During the late sixties Thijs left South Africa for a second time for Europe and ended up in Paris where he worked and continued his studies. He remained there for 6 years. In this time he was also resident at the famous Cité Internationale-des-Arts in Paris (for two years), completing murals at Bois d’Arcy and Neuilly-sur-Marne, studied lithography with Henri Deprest and Jean-Paul Pons, and for the next two years shared a studio with opera director and designer Jean-Yves Taverniér, gaining valuable experience in working with light effects.
He returned to South Africa to set himself up as a professional artist, eventually settling in Oudtshoorn. Over the years he has gained international renown, having held over 40 exhibitions worldwide, with his work represented in private and public collections in France, Great Britain, USA, Holland, Israel, Japan, Ethiopia, South Africa and China.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He has written various short stories, plays and anthologies.
His play Fluit vir die Vlieë (“Whisitle for the flies”) was first performed at Kampustoneel, 1986, then put on professionally by PACT in 1987.
Awards, etc
Sources
http://www.artkaroo.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=12
http://showme.co.za/paarl/lifestyle/thijs-nel-exhibits-in-paarl/
PACT Info, (2), 1992.
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