Born 9 January 1955, Payneville, Springs, South Africa 

Sam is renowned for his pulsing collage cut-ups, which capture the extreme energy of township life like a jazz anthem by Hugh Masekela. From 1970 he lived in KwaThema, near Springs, and it is the spirit of his home turf that shines through in the conjested, jivey township vignettes were an early hallmark.

Since 1993, he has been living in Benoni surrounded by the mine dumps of Johannesburg's East Rand. In his series of hand-printed lithographs, Interiors, he depicts interiors from "all facets of our society, from the informal settlements to the established suburbs and urban life". Unlike many of his earlier works, these images are serene and unpopulated. Personal difference can be seen in small details that furnish the brightly coloured rooms, which co-exist in tranquility beside one another. Each interior, from A Hotel in Randfontein to My Grandmother's Kitchen in the Sixties, has something unique and defining about it. Each occupies its own bit of South African space.

            COLLECTIONS 

            Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
            Durban Art Gallery
            Johannesburg Art Gallery
            Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
            Botswana Art Museum
            World Bank, USA
            Mobil Court, Cape Town
            Anglo American, Johannesburg
            Sasol, Johannesburg
            GENCOR, Johannesburg
            Standard Bank Head Office, Johannesburg
            BMW, Pretoria
            Mercedes-Benz, Johannesburg
            TELKOM
            ABSA
            Nedcor, Johannesburg
            Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg
            Johannesburg Stock Exchange
            SA Broadcasting Corporation, Auckland Park, Johannesburg
            DaimlerChrysler Headquarters, Pretoria
            Millennium Consolidated Investment, Sandton

Private collections in South Africa and abroad

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