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“Knight’s story reflects its time – apartheid…..As memoir its intensely personal, blunt and honest in places, reflective and funny in others. The plot is full of her family members, but the book is also a cast of artists, celebs, and characters who in their time made history or at least headlines.”
Ufrieda Ho. Wits Review October 2017 Vol 38 p 58-61Â
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“It is a marvelous book….
I was riveted from the first page and I devoured it. Its truthfulness opens the soul…….. Your flexibility with following Guidance along your life, surrendering to your cycles in deep humility, was a huge inspiration… You dared to develop. To jump without a safety net.
To leave success and begin new things.”
 Joy Manne. Author of Soul Therapy and Buddhist Psychology
Lana Jacobson of the Writers Studio, is a well published multi-award winning writer and author, specialising in creative non-fiction, read more about her on: https://www.writerstudio.co.za
Natalie Knight
A pioneering South African curator, art dealer, writer, gallerist, and cultural storyteller.
A lifelong learner who evolved with the times, from pre-digital to digital, from apartheid to post-apartheid.
- 1938, Born Natalie Sackstein.
- 1957, Married Zamie Liknaitzky – 3 Children, Cheryl, Julian and Alan.
- 1960, Admitted as an Attorney of the South Africa Supreme Court.
- 1966/ 68, A playwright, cultural journalist, and arts editor.(Habitat)
- 1981, Founded The Natalie Knight Gallery, introducing artists like Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Jim Dine.Â
Curated powerful exhibitions including:
- 1983, Ndebele Images,with catalogue in JHB and Designs of the Ndebele travelling exhibition organised by Smithsonian Institute Washington D.C.Â
- 1989, African Encounters – 12 South Africa Artists in New York.
- 1989, Ndebele Art –Evolution of a Cultural Identity: Atlanta Art Museum (A.I.M): acquired by Royal Art Museum Toronto (ROM)
- 1995, Opened Natalie Knight- The Art Source
- 2007, Dungamanzi –Stirring Waters, Tsonga/ Shangaan exhibition at Johannesburg Art Gallery & S.A. National Museum, with Nessa Leibhammer.
- 2008, Mandela@90 – Constitutional Court, Johannesburg.
- 2009 – 2012, Arts Curator of the Wits West campus.
- 2013, We Love Mandela: Art inspired by Madiba with Alan Demby (Scoin) at S.A Embassy, Trafalgar Square, London.
- 2017, The Big Picture: An Art-o-biography with Lana Jacobson.
- 2019, Art@life with Asher Marcus, Hubo studios – Light and Knight
- 2024, Lecture at Strauss and Co on the work of the late Alfred Thoba
- 2025, Exhibition of work by Shani Louk and lectures on The Big Picture.
“A legend in the Art world” – Helen Popplewell
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