Donovan Ward
Donovan Ward lives and works in Cape Town. He studied at Ruth Prowse School of Art and started practising full-time as an artist in 1994. He has participated in several group exhibitions and in 1994 was a finalist in the Volkskas Atelier competition.
During 2002 he was invited to participate in the Dakar Biennale and served an artist residency in Bangor, Wales.
His work is represented in private collections in Germany, Italy, the UK and South Africa.
Donovan Ward explores the fragmentary and competitive attributes of history and global culture. Using found and made objects, images, text and paint he addresses issues of globalisation and how history and technology contribute to change in communities. His use of high-tech and imagery from popular culture erases, contrasts and merges some of the residual traces representing lives once lived.
