Gavin Jantjes

Born, 1948 in Cape Town, South Africa

Gavin Jantjes’ work was included in the From Two Worlds exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 30 July - 7 September 1986. His work was included in the landmark exhibition The Other Story: Afro-Asian artists in post-war Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, 1989. He contributed the essay Red rags to the bull in the Other Voices section of The Other Story catalogue.

Amna Malik, of Slade School of Fine Art, contributed a text that looked at specific pieces of work by Jantjes, to Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers, one of four books in a series titled Annotating Art’s Histories, jointly published by The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts and iniva the Institute of International Visual Arts, London, published in 2008 and edited by Kobena Mercer.

Conceptualising ‘Black’ British Art Through the Lens of Exile. Within this illustrated chapter, Malik looked at specific work, or bodies of work by three artists: Gavin Jantjes, Mona Hatoum and Mitra Tabrizian.

Gavin Jantjes’ The First Real Ameri(k)an Target, 1974 was reproduced in Kobena Mercer’s Introduction to his Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures (2007) which was also edited by Mercer. 

One of Jantjes’ paintings, Untitled, 1989, was reproduced in Mercer’s Introduction to the first volume in his Annotating Art’s Histories series, Cosmopolitan Modernisms, inIVA and MIT Press, 2005.

»  Art Monthly 288 | Back to Black: art, cinema and the racial imaginary

Review relating to an exhibition, 2005

»  Back to Black - brochure

Brochure relating to an exhibition, 2005

»  Back to Black - catalogue

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 2005

»  Back to Black: art, cinema and the racial imaginary

Review relating to an exhibition, 2005

»  A Bizarre Form of Anthropology

Article relating to an exhibition, 1987

»  Cosmopolitan Modernisms

Book relating to a publication, 2005

»  Decibel Calender 2004

Brochure relating to a publication, 2004

»  Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers

Book relating to a publication, 2008

»  From Two Worlds - catalogue

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1986

»  From Two Worlds - press release

Press release relating to an exhibition, 1986

»  Gavin Jantjes: Recent Work - Private View card

Invite relating to an exhibition, 1990

»  Gavin Jantjes: Screenprints 1974 - 1981 catalogue

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1985

»  Gavin Jantjes: Zulu - card for special viewing of the exhibition

Announcement relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  How Sweet It Was

Article relating to an exhibition, 2005

»  In Black and White: Prints from Africa and the Diaspora

Book relating to a publication, 2013

»  inIVA Christmas card (Gavin Jantjes image) 1994

Announcement relating to an individual

»  Island Stories | Ameena Meer talks to Keith Piper

Article relating to an individual, 1992

»  Korabra - Gavin Jantjes

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1986

»  Korabra: Paintings by Gavin Jantjes - preview card - Liverpool

Invite relating to an exhibition, 1988

»  Korabra: Paintings by Gavin Jantjes - preview card - London

Invite relating to an exhibition, 1986

»  Korabra: Paintings by Gavin Jantjes - private view card

Invite relating to an exhibition

»  The Other Story - catalogue

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  The Other Story - City Limits

Article relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  The Other Story - exhibition guide

Exhibition guide relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  The Other Story - gallery listing

Gallery Listings relating to an exhibition, 1990

»  The Other Story - guide

Exhibition guide relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  The Other Story - Manchester invitation

Invite relating to an exhibition, 1990

»  The Other Story - Wolverhampton invitation

Invite relating to an exhibition, 1990

»  Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures

Book relating to a publication, 2007

»  Preview: From Another World

Article relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  Pride and prejudice

Review relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  Relocating the Remains

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1997

»  Shattered Images

Invite relating to an exhibition, 1990

»  Shattered Images - The Other Story/Gavin Jantjes

Announcement relating to a gallery, 1990

»  Shocks to the System

Article relating to an exhibition, 1991

»  Shocks to the System - catalogue

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1991

»  Third Text: The Other Story

Journal relating to an exhibition, 1989

»  Transforming the Crown

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1997

»  Waldemar Januszczak | There is a world elsewhere

Review relating to an exhibition, 1986

»  Zulu: The Space above your Head - press release

Press release relating to an exhibition, 1989