# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philippa-hobbs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:59.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philippa-hobbs"
name: "Philippa Hobbs"
slug: "philippa-hobbs"
description: "Philippa Hobbs is a South African art historian, artist, and art collector. She was born in 1955 and matriculated at St Andrew's School in 1972. She studied art at the Johannesburg College of Art before finishing a post-graduate printmaking course at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia). She then furthered her studies through University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Hobbs was a professor of art at the Technikon Witwatersrand from 1979 to 1993, and also the Head of Printmaking there. She has been noted for her contribution to the practice of art, art education, research, and community development through art. As of 2006, Hobbs has worked as Curator of the MTN Art Collection, a private, corporate art collection in Johannesburg."
tagline: "South African artist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             19
  historical:           6.601008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "فيليبا هوبز"
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    title: "فيليبا هوبز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philippa Hobbs"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Hobbs"
    title: "Philippa Hobbs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Hobbs"
    title: "Philippa Hobbs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Hobbs"
    title: "Philippa Hobbs"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Hobbs"
    title: "Philippa Hobbs"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7184724"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump