Notes

Jack Heath’s extraordinary output is quite unique in a South African context. Trained in the 1930s at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art in London, much of the work he produced in this country, between 1946 and 1969, might be recognised by its rigorous drawing, experimental media, dramatic and African-spirited design, scything forms, ominous atmosphere, phosphorescent colour, and metaphysical themes. While perhaps more firmly in the Neo-Romantic camp than any other, Heath, much like his British contemporaries John Piper, Paul Nash, John Craxton, Keith Vaughan and Graham Sutherland, often imbued his work with a dreamlike quality.

Exhibited

Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, The Heath Family Retrospective Exhibition, 9 July 2009 to 21 February 2010.