Garth Erasmus

Garth Erasmus (born April 12, 1956, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting. He was a participant in the Thupelo Workshop program during the 1980s. Writing in a review of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Arts 2002 exhibition "Encounters With the Contemporary," critic Mark D'Amato called Erasmus' painting The Muse 3 "a highlight." Erasmus' work uses his archival research to approach his Khoisan lineage, and drawing on figures from Khoisan cosmology. Erasmus has "employed Afrikaans text to comment on the brutal Khoisan history and its impact on present descendants, opening a window onto the way this history has been repressed."

He has also provided illustrations for numerous books, including Nape 'a Motana's book of proverbs, published in 2004, as well as a volume of conversations with figures from Cape Town's District 6.