We remember Bruce Arnott, Emeritus Professor of Fine Art
In a small way, my experience reflects Bruce's particular brilliance – an experience many others, too, have shared – his provocative, challenging insights, at once providing critique, and the means to rethink one's position in often surprising new ways.
Michaelis remembers Bruce Arnott
Emeritus Professor Bruce Murray Arnott passed away in Cape Town on Friday 20 July, just short of his 80th birthday. He was a formidable sculptor and academic, who taught at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT between 1978 and his retirement in 2003, and continued his association as a postgraduate supervisor and examiner.
Bruce Arnott tribute by Iziko Museums of South Africa
Iziko Museums of South Africa salutes the memory of Bruce Arnott – a great South African sculptor, curator and mentor in the fine arts – who was a key figure in the history of the Iziko South African National Gallery. He was an influential sculptor who made an impression on generations of students at UCT's Michaelis School of Fine Art.
Bruce Arnott: 1938-2018
News about the death of one of South Africa's foremost sculptors, Bruce Arnott, sent me straight to his Alma Mater, a goddess-like Caryatid figure atop a tall column. But the telling detail – and in Arnott's work, there is always a telling detail – is the chameleon perched triumphantly atop her headdress.