Berni Searle

Quick Facts

Full Name	Berni Searle
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jul 7, 1964(1964-07-07)
Age	60
Birthplace	Cape Town
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Western Cape
Horoscope	Leo

Berni Searle Biography

Berni Searle is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on July 7, 1964 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Berni Searle (born 7 July 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist who works with photography, video, and film to produce lens-based installations that stage narratives connected to history, identity, memory, and place. Often politically and socially engaged, her work also draws on the universal emotions associated with vulnerability, loss and beauty.

Perryer, Sophie (2004). 10 Years 100 Artists: Art In A Democratic South Africa. Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 1868729877. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015 .

Berni Searle utilizes large scale digital photographic prints, found materials, and time-based media such as film to capture her work. Searle’s work encompasses performative narratives and the self as a figure to embody history, land-memory and place. Searle is known for utilizing her own body in her pieces to highlight her own bodily agency and to construct and deconstruct identities around race and gender. Spices are a common motif in her work. Her series Colour Me is a body of work from 1998 to 2000 in which she outlines or adorns her body with different colored spices and creates life size or larger than life digital prints. The colored spices allude to the racial classifications imposed under apartheid, and also the movement of both spices and slaves during colonial regimes. Many works in the Colour Me series also feature measuring tools, signifying the colonial, pseudoscientific gaze on black bodies. Her work deals with South African History, the awareness of one’s own skin color, and the consumption of a woman’s body as a commodity; the confrontational power of that same body in which so many myths, desires, and necessities reside.

Berni Searle Net Worth

Berni Searle is one of the richest Artist from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Berni Searle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating with a BA in fine art in 1987 and a postgraduate diploma in education in 1988, Searle taught art in a Cape Town high school for two years and then re-entered Michaelis, registering for the master’s degree in sculpture in 1992. While this was clearly a valuable time for accumulating technical expertise and consolidating an affinity for the three-dimensional form-something that is still visible in her photographic works today-the search for both form and content continued. Her body of work presented for the master’s degree in fine art in 1995 shows abstract, voluminous structures in cement, ciment fondu, steel, wire, bronze, and glass that seem somehow incongruous with the much more intimate and lyrical works by which Searle is recognized today. Created a year after the first democratic elections, these works were meant to question euphoric ideals of nationhood and nation building in a lexicon strongly mediated, even regulated, by context and instruction.

Searle received her BA in Fine Art in 1987 and a postgraduate diploma in Education in 1988 from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.

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Leszek Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Berni Searle celebrates birthday on July 7 of every year.