Clare Menck The nuclear physicist's children , 2017 Oil on wood 30.5 x 24.5 cm CME02017A
R12,500
Clare Menck Sixties madonna & children, 2017 Oil on canvas 35 x 25 cm CME02317A R12,500
Clare Menck Eighties teenager on a dune, 2017 Oil on wood 26.5 x 31.5 cm CME01917A R12,500
Clare Menck Forties quintuplets in yellow socks and ribbons , 2017 Oil on wood 20 x 30 cm CME02217A R12,500
Clare Menck The nuclear physicist's wife, 2017 Oil on wood 31.5 x 26.5 cm CME02117A R12,500
Clare Menck Woman with ant mound (Eugene Marais digging), 2013 Oil on wood 40 x 50 cm CME02417A R25,000
Clare Menck Woman at a crossroads, hesitating , 2013 Oil on wood 20 x 25 cm CME02517A R12,500
Clare Menck Vintage Kiss, 2017 Oil on canvas 30 x 20 cm CME02717A R10,000
Clare Menck Summer holiday swimmers scene, 2017 Oil on wood 31.5 x 26.5 cm CME02617A R12,500
A mid-career painter, Clare Menck has refined her skills of
time passing, she prompts us to interrogate our own memories and
observation; her subject matter which at first glance appears to be
family histories.
the obvious and familiar proves on closer inspection and engagement with the medium to reveal a fresh and life-affirming vision of the environments around us.
Menck obtained her BFA cum laude from the University of Stellenbosch in 1990, an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art (painting) from Michaelis in 1991. Her MFA from the University of
In this series of intimately-scaled works, Menck asks us to take a
Stellenbosch followed in 1996. A 1997 study trip to Europe on a
sideways glimpse at our collective past. Through the use of almost-
grant from the University of Stellenbosch included 3 months of
familiar images that could be photographs from grandparents’
postgraduate studies at the Akademie der Bildenden KĂźnste in
storage boxes or vintage magazines, coloured with the sepia haze of
Dresden.