Karen Stander (Cape Town)
Hotel Kalahari Wire installation 190 cm x 190 cm x 70 cm Artist’s Statement Hotel Kalahari is an immersive wire installation that explores themes of community, care, and resilience through materials, light, and shadow, as well as transparency and volume. Inspired by the architecture of the sociable weavers’ vast communal structures in the arid Kalahari, […]
Helen Stewardson (Bloemfontein)
It is just a game Ceramics Installation: 120 cm x 32 cm x 60 cm Artist’s Statement Clay is a fascinating medium; mud that comes from the Earth through firing turns it to stone. I enjoy seeing what clay can do. I am fascinated by how thin clay can go. In this artwork, it is […]
Hoek Hendrick Swaratlhe (Pretoria)
Kgotso Linocut A/P 104,5 cm x 84,5 cm Artist’s Statement My work explores the evolving landscapes of South Africa and the social inequities experienced by indigenous communities, particularly through the lens of architecture and urban design. I focus on the stark racial disparities embedded in the living conditions created by apartheid-era spatial planning, where non-European […]
Keitumetse Palesa Thabane (Pretoria)
Makaya ya mina (My homes) Photography Edition 1 of 5 42,5 cm x 52,5 cm Artist’s Statement The series Makaya Ya Mina captures images taken both inside and outside my grandparents’ homes. As I spent hours waiting and observing, fishing for moments of movement and foot traffic, I found myself drawn into memories of playing […]
Ella Gail Thomson (Pretoria)
Life Dust Hand bound artist book (Thirty etchings and screenprint on Hahnemühle) 13 cm x 14 cm x 4,5 cm Artist’s Statement The work Life Dust encapsulates the chapters of one’s life into a finite space of interaction. Where memories come into fruition and grow, then fade as life does. Memories bound within the boundaries […]
Deanne Abigail van Blerk (Pretoria)
Obsolete Duplication Etching and Tetra Pac print Edition 1 of 10 62 cm x 82 cm Artist’s Statement Home is full. Collections span within and throughout home. These collections are so vast and important to their collectors that they have become one with the furniture of my household. The specific collection of focus in Obsolete […]
Rose van der Merwe (Johannesburg)
Birds of war Acrylic on canvas 165 cm x 150 cm Artist’s Statement In Birds of War, I am attempting to create a tension between 2 opposing realities: war and peace. The fact that there are currently so many conflicts (and with broader global tensions growing) is something that preoccupies my current thinking. The figures/symbols […]
Juandré van Eck (Gqeberha) | 2025 Overall Winner
Cycles of the mind Ceramics 53 cm x 46 cm x 21 cm Artist’s Statement In the movement and flow of the existence of life, my ceramic artwork focuses on emulating the rhythmic patterns of breath. This artwork aims to be a metaphor for the cycles of the mind. Two whistles that are on two […]
Philippus Johannes van Zyl (Cape Town)
How not to be self-aware Photographic digital composition 41,5 cm x 53 cm Artist’s Statement Look in the mirror. What do you see? Is it a dream, or a nightmare? Are we being introduced against our will? Are they mirrors? – from Twin Peaks Season 1 Episode 4, created by Mark Frost and David Lynch […]
Casper Roelf Versluis (Johannesburg)
Benign Painted steel on concrete base 84 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm Artist’s Statement Titled Benign, this sculpture forms part of a series, Since You Don’t See Me, exploring civil consciousness — our shared responsibility in building a just society. This work seeks to express a spiritual dimension of humanity by capturing the […]