ART ARCHIVES - SOUTH AFRICA Edin CURRIE-WOOD 1919-2001 Paintings, graphics Edin Currie-Wood in 1962 (illustrated in Contemporaries / Tydegenote 1963 )
Brief CV Edin Godfrey Currie-Wood was born at sea on Edinburgh Castle, 300km west of Lisbon on 5 th October, 1919. From 1940, Edin served in the SA forces the 1 st Battalion Royal Durban Light Infantry. He was taken prisoner on 7th June, 1942 at the Battle of Gazala, Lybia, and kept in various camps in Tripoli, Italy and Germany where he sketched fellow prisoners and contributed caricatures for POW magazines, such as Clink which he co-edited with A.F. (Sandy) Hay; most of these issues were presented to the South African War Museum, Johannesburg. After WW2 he went back to accountancy; he studied art part-time under Cecil Todd at the Durban Technical College (1944/45), but otherwise he is mainly self-taught. Edin Currie-Wood was a member of the NSA Natal Society of Artists (Natal branch of the SA Association of Arts) in Durban from 1959, then its Vice-President 1962-1964 and President (1965-1967). He moved from Durban to Johannesburg in 1974; visited Mexico City in 1982. Edin was Financial Manager of Clover Dairies in South Africa until his retirement from business end of 1984 to paint full-time; he was a Chartered Accountant (SA), a member of the Cost and Management Accountants and of the Computer Society of South Africa. His wife Annette was a violinist in the SABC Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg. The family moved to Nottingham, U.K., where Annette was still living in 2004. Their daughter is Brianna Janes who lived in Cheshunt, Herts. Edin died in October, 2001. SOLO EXHIBITIONS Durban: 1960 (Lidchi Gallery), 1962, 1967, 1973, 1981 Cape Town: 1964 Johannesburg: Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg: 1962 (20 th March), 1964 (13 th Feb) Gallery 101, Johannesburg: 1969 (30 th June), 1972 (17 th April) Gallery 21, Johannesburg: 1984 ( Mexican and other impressions ) (6 th May) (26 paintings), 1985 (23 rd July) (29 paintings)
Edin Currie-Wood at his exhibition at Gallery 21, viewing a sculpture by Lucas Sithole - LS8312 GROUP SHOWS From 1951 in the UK and South Africa, including: Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg Artists of Fame & Promise 1960, 1961, 1963/1966 Third SA Quadrennial 1964 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria ("Contemporaries / Tydgenote 1963") Art South Africa Today, Durban 1963 and 1965 Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria 1966 SA Breweries Biennale, Johannesburg 1968 Republic Festival Exhibition, Durban 1981 Gallery 21 Johannesburg Miniatures by 100 South African Artists 11 th Nov 1984 (3 works) PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Durban Art Gallery, Durban Hester Rupert Art Gallery, Graaff-Reinet Polokwane Art Museum, Pietersburg Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Everite Ltd., Johannesburg Volkskas Industrial Bank Ltd., Johannesburg SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS REVIEWS "South African Artists 1900-1962" (Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel), 1963 - p. 22 "Contemporaries / Tydgenote 1963", SA Association of Arts, Pretoria, cat 8-10 "Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Balkema) (1983), pp. 106/107 - ISBN 0 86961 144 5 "The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia" (Ogilvie) (Read), 1988, p. 151 - ISBN 0 620 12663 9 Vaderland, Johannesburg 24 th February, 1962 Vaderland, Johannesburg 21 st March, 1962 The Star, Johannesburg 21 st March, 1962 The Star, Johannesburg 13 th February, 1962 Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg 13 th February, 1964 ARTLOOK 32, Johannesburg July 1969 p. 10, ill Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg 5 th July, 1969, ill The Star, Johannesburg 7 th July, 1969 Financial Gazette, Johannesburg 11 th July, 1969 Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg 27 th April, 1972 Vaderland, Johannesburg 3 rd May, 1972 Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg 3 rd July, 1972 The Citizen, Johannesburg 2 nd June, 1984 The Citizen, Johannesburg 27 th July, 1985 The Citizen, Johannesburg 7 th August, 1985 Beeld, Johannesburg 30 th July, 1985 Obituary in ArtSMart, Durban 23 rd October, 2001 References to Edin Currie-Wood as a cartoonist Cartoonists and their work in Poolmanship, 1962 The Star, Johannesburg 20 th March, 1962 (Artist edited handmade magazine for P.O.W.), ill Companion to South African Cartoonists (Schoonraad) (Donker) (1989), p. 100/101, 153
Other photos of Edin Currie-Wood Edin in his studio Edin and Annette Currie-Wood illustrated in The Star, Johannesburg, 17 th June, 1983 SELECTED WORKS ON AUCTION or in Private Collections Lady shopping oil/board - Russell Kaplan, Johannesburg October 2014 Lot P173
"Gossip" - oil/wood - Priv. Coll. N.K., Netherlands Three Indian Women 121x60 cm - Russell Kaplan, Johannesburg October 2017 Lot P60
Landscape O.F.S. 40x60 cm Stephan Welz Auctions, Cape Town 8 th April, 2014 Lot 216 Market Day oil/board 40x50 cm Ashbey s Auctions, Cape Town February, 2015 Lot 202 Mother and child oil/board 60x40 cm - Ashbey s Auctions, Cape Town September, 2017 Lot 172
The Ice Cream Cart oil/canvas 70x50 cm Stephan Welz Auctions, Johannesburg April, 2010 Lot 733 Return to: https://art-archives-southafrica.com/selected-artists-from-south-africa Last updated 30th October, 2017 This is a printable version of https://art-archives-southafrica.com/edin-currie-woodarchives