Cecil Skotnes

Cecil Skotnes

Cecil Skotnes is a prominent South African artist.

He was born in East London in 1926, studied drawing in Florence, the Witwatersrand Technical Art School and then the University of the Witwatersrand.

He was appointed cultural officer in charge of the influential Polly Street Art Centre in 1952.

Skotnes was a founder member of the Amadlozi Group in 1961.

In 1979 he moved to Cape Town, where he still lives.


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