Julian van Jaarsveld (Johannesburg) | Artwork 2
Monolith II, 2026 Archival pigment print on Felix Schöller 310gsm Baryte, Edition 1 of 7 80 cm x 45 cm Artist’s Statement My practice is an ongoing study of the psychological weight found within empty environments. I do not approach a location merely to document its design, but rather to isolate its emotional weight. I […]
Julian van Jaarsveld (Johannesburg) | Artwork 1
Access point, 2026 Archival pigment print on Felix Schöller 310gsm Baryte, Edition 1 of 7 45 cm x 80 cm Artist’s Statement My practice is an ongoing study of the psychological weight found within empty environments. I do not approach a location merely to document its design, but rather to isolate its emotional weight. I […]
Klaré van Heerden (Cape Town)
The creation of … The captor, 2025 Wax, acrylic, charcoal, paper 33 cm x 43 cm Artist’s Statement This work is part of my series, No Hand Can Harm or Help Me, which delves into the paradox of protection and isolation, highlighting how the walls we unfortunately must construct to ensure psychological safety can simultaneously […]
Akeel Tsöeu (Pretoria)
uBettina Wethu, 2026 Oil on board 118,5 cm x 84 cm Artist’s Statement uBettina Wethu sits inside a discomfort that South Africa prefers to keep at arm’s length. This is not a gentle picture. It holds a moment of raw intimacy that exposes something we still struggle to name honestly: the resentment, the contradiction, of […]
Ona Tshali (Gqeberha)
Ingubo Yakhe (His blanket), 2025 Rooibos teabags, brewed rooibos tea, binding glue, family photographs 180 cm x 146,5 cm Artist’s Statement Ingubo Yakhe (His blanket) is a sculpture in the form of a blanket made in memory of my late uncle, who played a fatherly role in my life. It explores grief, memory, comfort, and […]
Madeleine Travers (Potchefstroom)
Aequoreal Series: The shape of summer, 2026 Acrylic on canvas 122 cm x 152 cm Artist’s Statement “AEQUOREAL” [(Adjective) archaic, rare, poetic. Latin for marine, oceanic] is an ongoing body of work that explores water as both subject and metaphor—a fluid, reflective medium through which ideas of memory, identity, and belonging unfold. Inspired by a […]
Keitu Thabane (Pretoria)
Am I “Black” Enough?! (series), 2025 Digital photomontage Diptych: (2) 59,5 cm x 84 cm Artist’s Statement Am I “Black” Enough?! is a visual exploration of belonging, displacement, and the politics of Black identity. Through staged self-portraits and photomontages, I place my body within township landscapes that I did not fully grow up in, yet […]
Ilitha Cebisa Taliwe (Bloemfontein) | Artwork 2
Ezibeleni, 2026 Screenprint, Edition 1 of 4 72,5 cm x 51 cm Artist’s Statement In February 2005, we moved into the home my mother built for my brother and me in Komani Ezibeleni Township Zone III. Where I come from, identity is the biggest flex; confidence and pride come as part of the package. Despite […]
Ilitha Cebisa Taliwe (Bloemfontein) | Artwork 1
Imiyalelo, 2026 Screenprint, Edition 1 of 4 50 cm x 64,5 cm Artist’s Statement I never met my grandmother. She passed away on 24 October 2002, and I was born just a few weeks later, on 9 December. Though only a handful of days separate these two dates, they mark the beginning of a relationship […]
Siobhan Swart (Bloemfontein)
Arachnid Afternoon (with laundry), 2025 Etching on Fabriano, Edition 2 of 7 37,5 cm x 33 cm Artist’s Statement Arachnid Afternoon (with Laundry) shows a scorpion-like figure engaged in the ordinary domestic act of hanging up washing in a vast open landscape. A mundane task is performed by a creature that feels out of place […]