Intethe Gallery, Hermanus was established in 2015 by Barbara Lindop. Lindop’s passion lies in the exploration of the wider art world, identifying, appreciating and promoting the art production of lesser-known artists. She devoted over 4 decades promoting the value and importance to the artistic heritage of South Africa the work of modern artist Gerard Sekoto. She travelled to various outlying provinces to teach children living in rural areas about Sekoto’s legacy. She established and ran the Gerard Sekoto Foundation until the Norval Foundation agreed to take over the administration and management thereof. Sekoto is now an internationally celebrated artist.
She has supported and promoted several other artists early on in their careers who have continued to forge their own international appreciation and recognition.
The Gallery represents Southern African artists, drawn from different South African cultural backgrounds, living in different provinces.
All are united in their common purpose of creating aesthetic and personal artistic commentary on contemporary sociopolitical concerns.
Talented, innovative, their technical skills perfected with practise and experimentation, their artistic expression is poetic, powerful and thought provoking.
Their artistic commentary ranges from global warming issues, cultural practice, the beauty of the natural world and its spirituality, sociopolitical commentary and the celebration of humanity.
These wide-ranging fields of exploration are expressed through texture, line, colour planes, sculptural and ceramic forms. Focus, hard work and tenacity feature in these artists climb to recognition and its material success.
It is the Gallery’s privilege to assist in promoting this goal. Platforms of recognition for the artists have been built, with the result of awards won, work selected in competitions and bought for museum and corporate and private collections.
A recent collaboration with a well-known South Africa Auction house enabled a successful outcome promoting the artists’ careers. This recognition gives the artists confirmed AUCTION records enabling worldwide verification in the growth of their careers.
Works have been selected by visiting art collectors and are now placed in well know European and American museum collections.