Gary Frier

Gary Frier is a young artist from Cape Town who is a skilled portrait artist. Gary Frier has participated in a number of South African and European residencies and exchanges. His work has a strong graphic quality, which lends itself well to printmaking.

Gary Frier focuses on carefully drawn and painted human figures and is intrigued by the way a two-dimensional image can convey much of the personality of the person that he chooses to depict.

While doing his residency at the Fordsburg Artists Studios he did this portrait of David Koloane, who is the director of the studios and is one of South Africa's foremost artists Artists