The exhibition is a chance to engage with Arnott’s work up close – to consider the groundedness of his sculptures, the rounded, graphic quality of his forms and the subtle, but certain use of mark-making to convey a particular sense of character.
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What goes into the making of a public intellectual life, one in which academic passions merge positively with social and civic life?
Tony Morphet was born in the small town of Kokstad on 1 April 1940, the youngest child of immigrants from Yorkshire. His farm upbringing left him with a deep respect for the harsh realities of rural labour, close observation of the natural world, especially of birds, and also a strange (for some) fascination for the complex machinery of tractors.
Once retired, he took informal lessons to improve the isiXhosa he had learnt as a boy.
Academically, his studies took him to the University of Natal and a degree in English in 1959. The contours of his political conviction were visible from an early age. At 17, he joined South Africa’s short-lived Liberal Party, where he worked closely with the writer Alan Paton.
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