Bretten–Anne obtained her Fine Arts Degree from Rhodes University in 1991 and went on to complete a Higher Diploma in Art Education with three distinctions in 1994.
Her work varies from figurative and contemporary images to commissions for clients. B A Moolman feels strongly about natural and social injustices and reflects upon this in her works. She has an inherent love for the landscape as the Karoo was her stomping ground in her youth. Her works are in private collections nationally and abroad. She has held seven solo exhibitions, the most recent being Fragments of Land at the William Humphreys National Gallery, Kimberley 2016
She runs private art classes for students and adults from her business and studio at Art on Target, 2 Target Kloof, Essexvale in Port Elizabeth.
Current representation:
Grande Provance Franschoek, Imibala Gallery Graaff Reinet, Art It Is Gallery Gauteng and Cape Town, GFI Gallery Port Elizabeth.
Previous exhibitions:
Solo Shows: William Humphreys National Gallery, GFI Gallery, Ron Belling Gallery, National Arts Festival and Cuyler Street Gallery.
Group shows National:
Western Cape – Everard Read Gallery, Liebrecht Gallery, These Four Walls Gallery, Cape Art Gallery.
Pretoria – Pretoria Arts Association, Stuart Trent Gallery, Art Lovers 1932 Gallery
Group shows in Eastern Cape:
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Textures Gallery, Cuyler Street Gallery, Ron Belling Gallery, Montage Gallery, the Athenaeum and ARTEC
Selections:
2015: selected for Bouchard Finlayson Exhibition, Hermanus Fine Arts Festival
2010: ‘Perpetrators’ oil on canvas, selected for Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art
Museum Biennale
2006: 2 works selected by Florean Museum, Romania, Carbunari Salon
2004: Absa L’Atelier Finalist, Top 100 young artists, Johannesburg
“ I grew up in a small town in the Karoo, Somerset East. My youth was spent climbing mountains, collecting interesting stones, and bits and pieces on farms, this fostered my love for the landscape and the people who dwell in it.
My experience participating in the Ultimate Braai Master TV series in 2014 and travelling 7000km s around South Africa over a period of two months has been a major influence on my current perception of the South African landscape and people, its wealth of colour and diversity.
As a fine artist the challenge has always been to create a work that is true to my perceptions, may it be a thing of beauty or a message about human interaction/ intrusion in the landscape.” BA