Saskia Yoriko Hertell-Moraloki (Pretoria)
4 Minutes to leave Mixed media assemblage Installation: 130 cm x 70 cm x 80 cm Artist’s Statement Mobile Living Conditions is a small series of assemblages (created in 2024) that reference precarious home environments. I source materials from recycling yards and collect used objects, which I deliberately tear and take apart to reconstruct and […]
Viola Greyling (Pretoria)
Suspending and evolving Ceramic Installation: 215 cm x 120 cm x 45 cm Artist’s Statement The ceramic sculptures submitted are inspired by the natural formations of stalagmites and stalactites, drawing on the language of caves as spaces of memory, emergence, and introspection. These organic forms echo a personal journey — one of returning, of searching […]
Siwaphiwe Gqwetha (Qqeberha)
Umalusi (someone responsible for livestock) Ceramics 38 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm Artist’s Statement My ceramic piece Umalusi is based on my late grandfather’s favourite cow that always gives birth every year. Unlike his other cows, this one was special to him. Naming this piece Umalusi, which is a Xhosa word that refers […]
Rebecca Louise (Beck) Glass (Pretoria) | 2025 Merit Award Winner
Sell – Fish Etching Edition 1 of 15 62,5 cm x 52,5 cm Artist’s Statement This etching explores the complex duality of being both the creator and the product within an artistic career. Set within the surreal confines of a fish market, the central figure — part human, part fish — embodies the tension between […]
Reinhard Giezing (Johannesburg)
This is not a toy Paper and leather 20 cm x 12 cm x 2 cm (folded) 20 cm x 12 cm x 70 cm (unfolded) Artist’s Statement How beautiful would the world be if you could hand a weapon to a child, and they could play with it without fear of injury? What if […]
Jessica Philile Mawuiena Foli (Pretoria)
Pussy: A natural scent Digital print on archival etching cotton rag Edition 1 of 5 46,5 cm x 37 cm Artist’s Statement This work is a response to the societal pressure for women’s vaginas (pussies) to smell a certain way, like vanilla, strawberry, lavender or pineapple. When I was growing up, women’s magazines and teen […]
Tasmin Hannah Els (Gqeberha)
I hear I’ve got your eyes Emulsion screenprint on glass 33 cm x 26,5 cm x 7,5 cm Artist’s Statement This artwork revolves around my current exploration of identity within the realm of my familial unit. It speaks to the longing for a relationship with my grandparents, who passed away a decade before I was […]
Mthandeni Gift Dlamini (Durban)
In their name Mixed media 74 cm x 53,5 cm Artist’s Statement In Their Name is a visual tribute to the 14 South African soldiers who lost their lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while serving in a peacekeeping mission. As an artist, I was moved to respond to the silence that […]
Karabo Dire (Johannesburg)
Self-portrait I: I love being me, it hurts Drawing pen on board 89,5 cm x 64 cm Artist’s Statement This self-portrait, rendered meticulously with a black fine liner using the stippling technique, is a meditation on the quiet complexity of introspection. Each dot serves as a moment of reflection- tiny, deliberate marks that collectively shape […]
Botlhoko Piet Diradingoe (Bloemfontein)
Why? Olive wood 39,5 cm x 75 cm x 41 cm Artist’s Statement The sculpture shows images of men lying down, which symbolises soldiers lying dead. It also speaks about unemployment, which kills the talents of our youth. The woman and child represent the abuse of women and children, and combine the story of soldiers, […]