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 […]
Sarah Volker (Gqeberha) | 2025 Merit Award Winner
Taut, tethered and torn Ballet tights, stones and cement blocks Installation: 90 cm x 250 cm x 120 cm Artist’s Statement Taut, tethered, and torn explores the tension between a dancer’s body and mind, where physical endurance intersects with emotional strain. The body retains experiences — some too deeply embedded to be processed by thought […]
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 […]
Thabo Treasure Mofokeng (Johannesburg) | 2025 Runner-Up
Still standing Acrylic on board 38 cm x 38 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT My art is inspired by the resilience and courage of my neighbour, who, despite being paralysed from a gunshot wound, embodies a spirit that radiates like gold. His determination to live life to the fullest, without letting his physical disability define him, is […]
Snelihle Asanda Maphumulo (Gqeberha) | 2025 Merit Award Winner
Ngaphansi kwesithunzi sakhe (under His Shadow) Sheep hide on canvas 63 cm x 80 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT Engraved on sheep and goat hide are quiet traces — Grandmother, Mother, Granddaughter. A living archive. A tree that keeps growing, reaching beyond what we can see. A gesture toward infinity. The work is born from family photographs […]
Vian Mervyn Roos (Pretoria) | 2025 Merit Award Winner
2916 Cotton Thread 65 cm x 60 cm x 9 cm ARTIST’S STATEMENT The work engages with the tensions between mechanised perfection and the vulnerability of the handmade. Comprising 2916 individually crafted tassels made from cotton thread and arranged in a 54 by 54 grid, the work focuses on the experience of repetition, tactile labour, […]
Tammy Lee Baikie (Johannesburg) | 2025 Merit Award Winner
Book worms, 2025 Mixed media 25 cm x 33,5 cm x 46 cm Artist’s Statement Book worms uses sustainable, wild harvesting of mopane worms to explore knowledge systems and how one knowledge system can overshadow others. The book, etching and specimen collection are tokens of the dominant western scientific paradigm. But in small ways – […]