“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb We all have to start somewhere, and in our journeys of getting to our desired destinations- it is inevitable that we may need to draw inspiration, strength or resources from other individuals who are also on a…
Thick, confident brush strokes revealing the layers of colours on the canvas. Intense eyes that pull the viewers into each painting — bringing to life the story presented on the 2 dimensional surface — inviting viewers into the colourfully nuanced depiction of everyday life. The abstract backdrops, highlight and frame the figures in her work…
i sit silently when I have nothing to vent about then play some music and begin . Yolanda Mazwana Born in the Eastern Cape, Yolanda is a self-taught artist expressing herself with paint and brush. Her work circulates around mental illness, popular culture phobias, relationships and storytelling. Her artistic expression falls somewhere between abstract expressionism…
“It is always a combination of joyful and emotional moment whenever I start to lay these “Flowers like Stars” symbols in my paintings. They are a reflection of the energy that has been passed on to me through the bloodline of my grandmother as a guidance to be fearless, to learn to appreciate, to purify…
And so we are like flowers; and bloom only, when the sun, kisses us. Kristian Goldmund Aumann The scent of a blushing bloom lingers; slowly, wilting flowers become weathered with time. Olivié Keck’s latest show, In Bloom, contemplates love captured in the flush of youth. A refreshingly tender reminder of hearts un-afflicted by regret…
We are often told that stories should have beginnings, midpoints and endings. And that they are logical and can be arranged sequentially. Furthermore, a hierarchy is often placed on which stories (about whom, for whom and by who) matter —these hierarchies valorise narratives held dear by the dominant cultures, while stripping dignity away from those…
Cape Town based multidisciplinary artist Manie Fagodien, needs no introduction especially to those in the creative and skate culture scenes of our beautiful Mother City. It is his work under his Tough Love moniker — in particular, stretching as far back as 2018 — that has drawn a strong emotional response from me. There is…
Disrupted. Distorted. Corrupted. An oxymoronic kind of static motion. Where errors mesmerise in malfunction. Johannesburg-based artist, Jess Sutherland, presents Errorscapes an exhibition of ‘broken’ images. The show opened at Kalashnikovv Gallery on the 14th of March pre-pandemic. The glitch, seemingly synonymous with the digital era, has come to have its own kind of visual language….
Wendy Dixon and Caitlin Warther are the founders of art duo, Warther Dixon. Their collective creative journey began by working on commercial projects together. Wendy’s background in brand strategy and graphic design, together with Caitlin’s background in photography, interior design, writing and philosophy, present an interesting mixture of artistic and thought processes. They produced their…
These unprecedented times are marked by zodiac activity with far reaching implications; whether one believes it or not, we are in the midst of the procession of the Equinoxes, from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. In ancient cultures, such prolific Celestial movement harnessed energy capable of shaping or destroying civilisations —…
I first came across Thenjiwe Nkosi’s work through the collaborative project; The Reading Room staged at the Goethe Institut in Johannesburg about two years ago. It would be another year until I engaged with her practice through a series of talks under the project; That’s what she said, which sought to bring together womxn artists…
Lianca Heemro is a trans-disciplinary artist from Cape Town. Her work is centred around past and present socio-cultural as well as socio-historical issues as they relate to Coloured identity in a South African context. Lianca works specifically with the lineage of memory from a this aforementioned view point. In her work, we see connecting elements…
