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Stories of Our Soil is a collection of creations that will be featured at The Melrose Gallery during Womxn’s Month, August 2021. This collection is an amalgamation of womxnhood, nature, our place within it, and how they have been exploited by our society. From an inner space, each of these artists have created raw portrayals of the problems that a colonial capitalist structured society have placed on our shoulders, but, importantly, each also conveys a message of hope on how to overcome these societal ills.

The Melrose Gallery is pleased to announce Ronald Muchatuta’s solo exhibition ‘Kurarama – To Survive’, following on from his well-received presentation at the Stellenbosch Triennale. The Triennale closed prematurely due to Covid-19 and Ronald created this body of work during the lockdown in South Africa.

Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source) is the first solo exhibition of the renowned artist and Sangoma (spiritual healer) Pitika Ntuli to comprise solely of works sculpted from bone. Pitika uses bones to ‘divine the state of the nation in a season of anomie’.