Honours student from Gqeberha wins the 2025 Sasol New Signatures with interactive ceramic work
Pretoria, South Africa – Juandré van Eck (25), an Honours student from the Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition for his ceramic piece titled Cycles of the mind. Van Eck, a merit winner in 2024, takes home a cash prize of […]
Miné Kleynhans Solo Exhibition | Augury After Autogogues
Exhibition Statement Augury After Autogogues playfully and satirically stages a kind of speculative mysticism that indulges the sovereignty of ‘personal truth’. In a time when shared systems of belief are breaking down and facts are met with scepticism, the exhibition imagines the advent of the Autogogue: a self-guided mystic who looks inward for meaning — […]
Owethu Vuyokazi Montsikelelo Sobuwa (Gqeberha)
Ulwaluko I & II Cotton fabric print and hessian; pine wood wrapped in cotton Two Part: 115 cm x 60 cm; 45 cm x 15 cm x 13 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT Ulwaluko is a two-part mixed media work that reflects on the transformation of Xhosa boys into men, not to critique the sacred rite itself, […]
Jessie Elliott (Gqeberha)
Mind Full. Mind Less Multimedia – Audio Visual Edition 1 of 5 124 seconds ARTIST’S STATEMENT In this video, I explore the transference of the mental state into the physical through repetitive processes and tedious tasks. The physical act of each of these processes becomes a meditative action, allowing my brain to quiet and work […]
Sello Ronald Letswalo (Johannesburg) | Mapantsula
Mapantsula Acrylic and oil on reclaimed steel 74,5 cm x 123 cm Artist’s Statement Mapantsula, a work on steel is a visual tribute to the spirit of township street culture — its energy, rhythm, and resistance. Inspired by the Mapantsula movement, I use painting as a way to engage with a culture I deeply admire […]
Sello Ronald Letswalo (Johannesburg) | Mplankara
Mplankara Mixed media 70 cm x 63 cm x 64 cm Artist’s Statement My sculpture, Mplankara, is a celebration of the universal human impulse to create, adapt, and find joy in the face of limitation. At its heart lies the figure of a hybrid child — part human, part cow (my familial totem, kgomo) —riding a wooden […]
Hlumelo Mayekiso (Gqeberha) | Umntana ka Sotshintshi
Umntana ka Sotshintshi Red terracotta clay 18,5 cm x 18 cm x 18 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT In Xhosa culture, bees play a significant role as ancestors or ancestral messengers. Their presence conveys a message sent from the ancestors, and in such cases, a goat has to be slaughtered or kusilwe umqombothi (brew African beer). As a great-grandchild […]
Hlumelo Mayekiso (Gqeberha) | Igqibelo
Igqibelo Red terracotta clay 26 cm x 18 cm x 15 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT This ceramic vessel has a very modernised design, representing myself as UmXhosa, a contemporary artist in Gqeberha. Sticking to isiXhosa culture, with this piece I applied more refined and stylised patterns and designs inspired by Wakanda patterns and designs in the Black […]
Hannah Mae Silcock (Johannesburg)
The acoustic microwave (Body of work: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations) Video 207 seconds The sound basin (Body of work: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations) Metal and sound installation 160 cm x 160 cm x 60 cm Disclaimer: The Acoustic Microwave and The Sound Basin artworks are part of a body of work called Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. The following […]
Konadi Marcia Ntsoane (Cape Town)
Ruri ke tla loka (Truly I will be made well) Archival pigment on Hahnemühle 308 gsm 58 cm x 46,5 cm We mend in circles Archival pigment on Hahnemühle 308 gsm 58 cm x 46,5 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT This series of hyper realistic digital collages, Ruri Ke Tla Loka and We Mend In Circles, draws […]