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
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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
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
“As a South African woman from a previously disadvantaged background, I aim to develop tools that can be useful to combat diseases that are endemic in our country – and that is my main goal.” These are the words of University of Cape Town PHD candidate, Veneshley Samuels. Originally from Atlantis in the Cape Flats, […]Read More
Working predominantly, on the mediums of photography, film, and text – Tsoku Maela uses his visual mediums not only to document the present but also as a way to look into the future by revisualizing African narratives, culture, and aesthetics often as part of surreal and abstract visual worlds. At the age of 17, he […]Read More
Fonseca & Mokgata is the collaborative artistic practice of Carla Fonseca and Nthato Mokgata, based on experimentation with various mediums to describe societal trauma and the elusive fantasy of freedom. F&M Studio has developed an interest in describing both violence as a language as well as the “violence of language” in the context of post-colonial/apartheid Africa. […]Read More
With a distinctive, stylized and almost naïve technique, he invites viewers to contemplate the beautiful in the seemingly ordinary by using bold and flat colours. Meshack “Shakes” Tembani grew up in the New Crossroads township (Cape Town) where he still lives and works. From a young age, Shakes loved art and started exploring different avenues of expression in a variety […]Read More
This January, Goodman Gallery presents Promise Land, the first solo show by acclaimed artist/sculptor Stuart Bird. In a series of meticulously and often obsessively hand-crafted sculptures and installations, Bird explores the position of the artist and the individual in contemporary South Africa. South Africa is the land of promise of the title – a country […]Read More