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777: 194:, exhibitions for new and emerging artists. The work featured "recast female subjects from art historical paintings, photographs and the media into new environments, imbuing them with a newfound sense of self possession." Many of the paintings show the women rendered in a rich blue paint which echoes Brice's Trinidadian experiences of carnival, in which revellers known as 'blue devils' paint themselves blue for anonymity. 789: 765: 147:
After graduating, Brice's first show featured images drawn from Thailand's sex industry signage, which was taken up by the Frank Hanel Gallery in Germany and shown across Europe. Subsequent early mixed media exhibitions featured themes such as racial tension, violence and crime in South Africa.
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Brice had two solo exhibitions at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. In 2017 her first exhibition was dedicated to paintings on paper. In 2019 Brice presented a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper following her highly acclaimed solo exhibition at
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with the emaciated model repainted, filled out, also smoking a cigarette. The exhibition was well received by the British press who praised Brice for "an important reclamation of the female body". Brice's work was included in the 2022 exhibition
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Brice started out working with printing, photography, video and other mixed media. After moving to the UK, she began to work predominantly in oils and canvas or paper and is now better known as a painter.
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and later settled in the capital. Her paintings are inspired by her early life in South Africa as well as her life in London and time spent in Trinidad over the past 20 years.
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and cites some of her influences as her experiences growing up in South Africa during a time of political upheaval, and from time spent living and working in Trinidad.
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Since 1993 Brice has had over 20 solo exhibitions in South Africa and around Europe, and almost 100 group exhibitions around the world.
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in 2018. The exhibition was accompanied by a booklet and commissioned essay by Laura Smith, Curator at
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in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where she met and collaborated with other artists such as
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has described her as one of the "quiet masters of composition and technique".
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with Ophelia standing upright holding a cigarette, the other based on
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Brice was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa and studied at
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included two new paintings not previously exhibited, one based on
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in Cape Town, graduating in 1990. From 1988—1991 Brice worked as
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Her work is held in collections around the world, including the
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Also in the late 1990s Brice began spending time working and in
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painter and visual artist from Cape Town. She lives in
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10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa
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Cape Town
South African
London
Michaelis School of Fine Art
printmaking
Sue Williamson
Gasworks Gallery
residence
Peter Doig
Chris Ofili
Caribbean Contemporary Arts
Duro Olowu

Duro Olowu
Camden Arts Centre
Salon 94
Tate Britain
Whitechapel Gallery
Tate Britain
John Everett Millais
Ophelia (painting)
William Rothenstein
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Johannesburg Art Gallery
The Whitworth
High Commission of South Africa, London
Sindika Dokolo

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