Dec
The Thukela River in KwaZulu Natal flows through the valley and, although there have been comings and goings through the centuries, part of it feels remote. There is minimal technology, services are limited or non-existent, and access was made through a sharp-stoned dirt road until around 2017 when a tarred surface was laid down. In […]
“I like to watch people and animals and then put what I see on paper. I want to show people what our country looks like. I paint about its goodness.” – Lucas Bambo As a documentary artist, Lucas Bambo tells the tales of his upbringing in rural South Africa – it is wonderful to experience […]
Oct
Sometimes we come across works by artists and we want to speak to them about their work but can find no information about them or their whereabouts. We then rely on the web and social media to find snippets about them, and sometimes even this brings us no results! We’re hoping we can find this […]
Sep
I once read somewhere that painter and poet, Banele Khoza, buys himself flowers. I cannot remember the exact context of the article, but I do remember reading it in the context of creating a practice- a discipline, and what a beautiful discipline to cultivate.I was reminded of this when looking at the work Bae, I […]
Aug
Cecil Skotnes would traverse the use of several mediums over his lifetime of creation, but the attraction of woodcutting for Skotnes was in part the rarity of practice in this medium during his studies at Wits in the late 1940s. Skotnes maintains that the word ‘woodcut’ was not even mentioned during his years at art […]