Beth Bailie & Holly Adams – Collaboration (Johannesburg)
Between the barriers, 2026 Video, Edition of 6 227 seconds Artist’s Statement Between the Barriers is a video art piece that follows themes of intimacy and the body. The piece shows various close-ups of intimate skin-to-skin contact between partners. The contact is soft, tender and personal. The bodies are shown close-up to emphasise the contact […]
Tammy Baikie (Johannesburg)
Dinoflagellate II, in the Garden, 2026 Mixed media 58,5 cm x 38 cm Artist’s Statement The work questions the Edenic concept of gardens, teasing out their straddling of artifice and nature, control and abandonment. Through Victorianalia, including convex glass, commercial shop window gilding and botanical illustration, it alludes to the imperial legacy of gardens in […]
Hester Badenhorst (Pretoria)
Fern fiddleheads, 2026 Collage, trame verbale, oil paint 61 cm x 46 cm Artist’s Statement Fern Fiddlehead explores how the values and ideals of previous generations continue to shape our lives today. Fern fiddleheads, with their distinctive curled forms, recall the head of a violin—a component associated with balance and tuning—and become symbols of the […]