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Established in 1968, The Strydom Gallery is a family business internationally recognised for its high standard and tasteful display of selected artworks by a cross-section of South African painters, sculptors, printmakers, potters and photographers.
Leon Strydom
"Artworks can guide you by way of analogy to recognise - and even understand - aspects of your life. That explains the rich diversity on display: the gallery aims to facilitate this experience to different visitors, i.e. to more than one kind of consciousness. This is why an artwork sold as a result of the aesthetic experience is most rewarding here, because the why and the how of the way I prefer to make a living are the two sides of the same coin."
(27th November 1999)
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Ken Owen
(former editor of Business Day & Sunday Times)
"Professor Strydom sets an example. He maintains this gallery in a small town, away from the main centres of population, and he is building it into an institution of excellence. He collects and offers the very best works he can find, and he educates our taste and our sense of discrimination. He upholds the most civilised values in an unlikely place at an unlikely time. The success of his (and his brother's) efforts is widely recognised.
"The truth is that this gallery is much more than a commercial enterprise. In a time of great uncertainty it is, perhaps, an act of defiance. It is certainly a declaration of faith - faith in the future, faith in the rest of us. Faith that we, too, are the sort of people who search for truth and beauty amid disorder. In a sense, he defines us. This gallery says to the world: This is the sort of people we are. We do not buckle under stress. We value our cultural heritage and we refuse to live tight, restricted lives. We will not allow our spirit to be stifled. We WILL express ourselves, and by doing so we shall help shape this society and its values."
(24th November 2001)
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(Prof.) Gregory Kerr
(teacher and artist)
"This Summer Exhibition is the 35th in a long and impressive line of shows that never fail to astonish the unwary.
"A remark was made by someone recently to the effect that if he wanted to show a foreigner a cross-section of high-quality South African art all in one place at one time, he would not send his guest to Johannesburg or Cape Town, but rather hier, in die dorpie van George. This is a fair indication of the esteem in which the shows are held."
(Saturday 15 November 2003)
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