Elzaby Laubscher lives and works in Paarl. She was born in Kwa Zulu Natal and studied at the University of Pretoria, the Ruth Prowse College of Art and The Cape Town School of Photography.

She started working as an artist in 1987 and has held several solo exhibitions in Cape Town: at the AVA Metropolitan Gallery (“Fragments”), at the Lipschitz Gallery ( “ Do we hear them cry?”) and at the Bell-Roberts Gallery (”Letsels”). These exhibitions have been drawings, mixed media and a limited amount of installation work. The solo exhibitions often dealt with social issues such as crime, violence and child abuse.

Her latest exhibition was shown in November /December 2007 at the Abalone Gallery in Hermanus, titled “Nature’s Sketchbook” - her first exhibition of photographic work. Drawing is her passion and of this direction in her art she says: “I started discovering the elements of the art of drawing in nature and experienced the feeling of having a peep at the line drawings of a very special sketchbook”. Through controlled movement of the camera the challenge was the unpredictable.

She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad.

Her recent work on paper will be shown in 19 July to 22 August 2008 at the Abalone Gallery in Hermanus in a joint exhibition with Judith Mason’s pencil drawings from the late eighties.

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