‘When they step away from my paintings, the message follows them into their daily lives’. – Muofhe Manavhela If you were to accompany Muofhe Manavhela when she goes shopping for art supplies, within a minute of entering the store, she would run to the colours with you. Colour calls Manavhela by name and she heeds […]Read More
After years in the creative industry, visual artist Kenyaa Mzee, is re-introducing herself with a new photoshoot titled “A New Era”. Cape Town-based visual artist, Kenyaa Mzee, is re-introducing and repositioning herself in the creative sphere as a Writer, Visual Artist, Designer and now full-time Film and Visual Critic with a rather grand photoshoot. Coming […]Read More
Teresa Kutala Firmino was born in Pomfret, a remote town in the North West province of South Africa where ex-Angolan soldiers who fought with South African forces in the South African Border War (1966-1989) were relocated to after the war. Her father later joined the South African Defense Force which resulted in Firmino spending her […]Read More
Prior to committing himself as a full time contemporary artist, Loyiso Mkize rose to prominence as one of South Africa’s best known graphic novel and comic book illustrators, being one of the foremost contributors to the Sunday Times supplement SupaStrikers. Eventually he discovered a passion for portrait painting, a medium he turns to as an avenue […]Read More
Simphiwe Ndzube was born in Hofmeyr, Eastern Cape, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has a BA Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and is the winner of both the Tollman Award and Michaelis Prize. Considered one of the most important young artists of his […]Read More
Leo Makgekgenene is a New Media graduate from the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Makgekgenene was born in 1995 in Gaborone, Botswana. The artist moved to South Africa in 2009 where they worked and studied in Pretoria before moving to Cape Town in 2015. Many of his works aim to rematerialize the metaphorical spaces in […]Read More
Nabeeha Mohamed studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and graduated, specializing in painting, in 2011. Mohamed’s very personal work grapples with the complexities and contradictions of identity and class privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her identity as a woman of colour, hushed during her childhood years in […]Read More
Giggs Kgole was born in Kutupu Village in Limpopo in 1997 and grew up in Tembisa, Johannesburg. His father worked at the Kelvin Power Station and he attended the nearby Cresslawn Primary School in Kempton Park. In grade six, upon returning from his initiation in Limpopo, he applied for a scholarship with the Student Sponsorship […]Read More
Neo Matloga was born in 1993 in Mamaila, Limpopo, South Africa, and is currently based between Mamaila and Amsterdam. He studied Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, and completed a residency at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, with a focus on painting. Matloga won the 2018 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst. A solo exhibition, Neo to Love, […]Read More
Nandipha Mntambo was born in Mbabane, Swaziland. In 2007, she completed a Master’s in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Mntambo currently lives in Johannesburg. Her work addresses ongoing debates around traditional gender roles, body politics, and identity. She works in photography, sculpture, video, and mixed […]Read More