organisation that initiates, co-ordinates and facilitates discussion and innovative problem solving to create a better, respectful and sustainable world.
The Foundation creates the opportunity for thinkers, individuals and corporates to join together, stimulate their imagination, collaborate and harness their creativity for the overall health of the planet.
It is a tax-efficient vehicle to facilitate and support the development and implementation of innovative projects that address the social and ecological imbalances and vulnerabilities resulting from the human footprint.
It invites partnerships between schools, universities, local businesses, cultural and creative communities and individual citizens.
The current problems of the world cannot be addressed in a predictable, formularised way. Such solutions require the ability and desire to break new ground and generate fresh ideas.
The presence of an elephant made out of recycled material in different regions of the world will help mobilise community
involvement in broader human and ecological issues.
Andries Botha
www.andriesbotha.net
Andries Botha lives and works in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is from this place of familiarity that he finds it possible to be creative.
Graduating from the University of Natal in the 1970's, he won several awards including the Volkskas Atelier Merit Award in 1987, the Cape Town Triennial Merit Award (1988), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (1990) and the National Vita Art Award (1992).
Apart from exhibitions in his home country, he has exhibited extensively internationally, including most recently:
Photogragher: Sean Lorrenz
2009
Oslo, Norway, Durban, George and Cape Town, South Africa; The Human Elephant Foundation artwork (a commission): “Lux Themba”, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and installed in Holland.
The Human Elephant Foundation artwork: “Nomkhubulwane”, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Wild9, Mexico.
2006/9
The first of the Human Elephant Foundation multi-piece works: “You can buy my heart and my soul” in De Panne, Antwerp and Tervuren, Belgium.
2008/9
The Human Elephant Foundation artwork: “Wounded Elephant”, St Brieuc and Marseilles, France.
2008
Gwalior, India; Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
He has consistently championed the visual arts in his home community with the founding and chairing of the Community Arts Workshop (1984), the forming of the Create Africa South Trust (2002) and the Amazwi Abesifazane Trust (2008).
He has also given significant time to exploring the relationship between creativity and other forms of citizenship, which has resulted in his committing his life to being within a teaching and learning environment. Andries has always been highly conscious of the fragile co-existence of man with other life forms and sensibilities.
He has, throughout his creative career, tried to unravel the mystery and responsibilities attached to the idea of co-existence. This search led to the formation of the Human Elephant Foundation in 2006 and its public launch in 2009.
PROFILE: JOHN CHARTER
After graduating from Stellenbosch University in Philosophy and English, he spent 37 years in the marketing communications industry with Ogilvy, McCann, Lintas and latterly Matthews and Charter in Johannesburg, Toronto and Durban. For the past 5 years, John has practised as a Corporate Dynamics Partner in collaboration with two psychologist colleagues, with clients across many industries in South Africa.
Having worked for so long in a highly creative industry, John is convinced that human imagination provides the key to the massive problems currently being faced on the planet.
As a 4th generation South African, he has a profound love of his country and continent on many levels. With the legacy of a grandfather who founded the oldest game reserve in Africa, as a keen naturalist in his own right, and being conversant in many local languages (speaking fluent English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa), John is both environmentally and culturally immersed in the very fabric of South Africa’s heritage.
He is convinced of the leading role that African sociology, ecology and philosophy can play in stimulating new thinking around the challenges of the human condition in the 21st century.
As a partner in the Human Elephant Foundation, with founder and sculptor Andries Botha, John has campaigned for its extended role in harnessing human creativity to generate important conversations around re-engaging with the earth, and ensuring meaningful sustainability based on an acknowledgement of our inter-dependence with each other and with all forms of life.
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