Celebrated internationally for fabric constructions with hand embroidery and collage, Amita Makan infuses her work with identity, memory andhistory by using vintage saris.

Themes explored in Cruise’s work include the interface between humans and animals with particular emphasis on communication. In her doctoral thesis, “Thinking with Animals: An exploration of the animal turn through art making and metaphor”, she explores conditions of muteness – silent, internal battles in the search for meaning that crosses the species divide.

The culture and the traditions of the Eastern Cape have played an important role in my craft, especially in the four years I spent in rural Transkei. That’s when I got to know about “imbizo” – a gathering where important matters of the village are discussed – which eventually led to the Imbizo table set that I designed in 2018.

I know that art can’t abolish violence but it can open conversation. I trust and wish that my work will give the audience an opportunity to wonder and start making the change in their own circles.

Simon Zitha wishes to communicate and give voice to those who are not able to speak for themselves and perhaps might be overlooked. In the large-scale bronze tableaux, ‘Sunrise and Bova’, he gives recognition to the relationship between a canine and feline, in a momentary tense yet playful dance. Simon often works in stone and bronze.

Haupt’s artistic process commences with live models from which he creates figurative sculptures that portray the naturalistic qualities of the model while harnessing the expressive qualities of the medium.Once the sculptures are cast in wax, various sections or parts are removed and combined with other figures and/or objects.These assemblages juxtaposed various concepts to allow for new meaning and creation.

Coral Bijoux has focussedher attention on her artmakingin recent years. Shecalls herself a visual storyteller usingnarrative as a provocation towards alternate,r-evolutionary thinking and behaviour.Her practice encouragesparticipation with walk-in installation being her preferred medium. 

Alexa Pienaar is a young South African artist who recently completed her master’sdegree in Fine Art at the University of Johannesburg.She was born in Pretoria, grew up on a small farm in the Western Capeand now finds herself back in the bustling streets of Johannesburg.

Life is at the heart of my work – it’s my experiences and journey thus far that have moulded my career. Without naming names specifically, my family, partner, friends and people around me have inspired me deeply.

Alan Ainslie has established himself as a wildlife artist adept at capturing the untamed spirit of Africa in his drawings, paintings and sculptures. His portrayal of the wildlife of the African savannas gives us an insight into their world in the most striking style.

The work propositions the idea that all life is a principle defined by and within the tensions created between the physical and the ephemeral; life intrinsic to and shaped by mortality qualified by personal choices made.

You know what I like? I like looking at things from behind thick, plate glass. You can't hear a thing. I love to watch trees swaying and bending and shivering in the wind in total silence. I love sitting in a downtown coffee shop, watching people walk by. Because glass separates, so that you can imagine other people and other things as distinct from yourself - although, of course, they are not.

Humanity is intrinsically self-centered. We 'want', and conservation is never our first prerogative. We will not achieve enlightenment as a species until we realise that it is self-destructive to destroy. What you destroy ultimately has a direct impact on you.

From her imagination sprouts creatures of whimsical and uncanny flair. Each work is a unique take on the playful and intuitive exploration process and the need for pensive solitude. Anita was nicknamed ‘little creature’, in her schooling days, for her love of creating visual representations of feelings and thoughts through illustrations, 

My work aims to capture moments of intense emotion and allow the audience to be temporarily consumed by it. This explains why I am drawn to the themes of love, connection and relationships.

I am interested in contradictions and binaries, so I often consider how something has been defined by its antithesis or the possibility of its absence and how this shifts its value and meaning. Absence often creates possibility, a once filled space for example becomes open and vulnerable to be absorbed, used, ignored or quoted.

Sandile Radebe’s practice explores both public and private spaces. Radebe activates these spaces through stimulating a new reading of graffiti and more broadly, the way language works to help construct our realities. He visualises graffiti in abstract sculptural forms instead of alphabetical lettering.

My soul mission is to bring visual awareness of subtle energies. Subtle energy is the cord connection you share with the environment around you. It is your body's sensory experience that links to thoughts, feelings, emotions, and other human beings.

Born in 1985 in Johannesburg South Africa. Grew up in Krugersdorp. After matriculating in 2003 studied Garden Designing and Horticulture. Three things he loves - Nature, Design and Creating new and unique things. After starting his professional career as a Garden Designer it did not take long for him to fall into the hard landscaping side and construction formed part of this.

My work deals with matters that I experience subconsciously and spontaneously. I relive my upbringing memories, trying to understand how one occurrence relates to the next, leading to the person I am today.

My practice explores thoughts, memories and everyday life scenes, including inequalities and identity in a contemporary South Africa. My artworks aim to provoke thought and engage my audiences intellectually. The images that form my work are inspired by photography and observations. As a multi-disciplinary artist working with sculptures, installations, paintings and drawings, my work combines ready-made objects and various mediums.

Trapani (Sandro) reflects on a sense of beauty that is redolent of memory and experience in Tragodia Series. The places and moments of nostalgia, and at times melancholia, are recollections that are not always definitive or distinctive but are often fleeting and at times unidentifiable, as if rediscovered in another context. There is a sense of the historical but a loss of milieu. The portraits resonate with a personal experience not quite fully preserved. They become archives of collected or reclaimed memories that occasionally reveal themselves – as if accidentally found while searching for something else. 

Love and madness. One creates without great deliberation or focused attention. It’s therefore not easy to put into words the desire, the uncontrollable craving I get to grab a piece of clay or digital clay and shape it into something new. As though something merely takes hold, your mind wondering and drifting in plains of the indescribable mental and physical states of spiritual existence. If you become stagnant, you remain unfulfilled until you get back to that space where you breathe new life and form into existence. It’s why I create, and never wish to stop. 

Wilmot’s creative destiny was determined from an early age, having grown up in a family of artists. She recalls helping to prepare and frame her Father (Martin Wenkidu’s) paintings every year for the long haul to exhibit at the Grahamstown Festival, where at age twelve she sold her first sculptures from an open suitcase.

My work is rooted in realism, as it is expressed in modeling style and concept. Images sprout from meditation on present reality. For example, it asks the viewer to re-evaluate the legitimacy of an anthropocentric outlook of the world. Consequently, objects and subjects are used metaphorically and often contain social commentary.

As an individual that finds it somewhat hard to express myself using words, it becomes essential for me to map out my own subjective register through the cultivation of honest and unmediated artworks. Through this process I hope and aim to conjure up a new original story or contemporary myth that I can share with others. It is my conviction that my art and sculptures signify my attempt to establish a personal visual language.

Francois is a self taught artist who learned pottery from his mother and welding from his father. Greatly influenced by renowned sculptor Phil Minnaar who taught him basic techniques, Francois’ motto is: “make do with what you have.” His works, ranging from realistic to the abstract contemporary, form part of various private collections both in South Africa and abroad.

Gordon Froud is most well-known for his iconic bright orange traffic cone virus sculptures but he works in many different media, from drawing to animation and multi-media, and at scales from the very small to the extra large. His work is concerned with modularity, repetition, the unexpected use of non-traditional materials, and the underlying sacred geometry to be found in everything including daily life, the city, landscape, the world’s religions and the universe. 

Whilst working at the Kruger Park many years ago, Keith contracted malaria, and during his recuperation he started to explore an interest in sculpture. Conflicted between his commitment to conservation and a possible career in the arts, the decision to leave the bush and become a sculptor was made easier when he received his first important commission.

Larissa is a B Comm Law graduate who studied at Stellenbosch and UJ. After law she was drawn to pursue her creative side. She spent months in India creating and designing jewellery and was moved by the raw beauty, simplicity and spirituality of this country and its people. Her creative interest and passion for the human body and it’s movement led her to pursue studies in anatomy, Pilates and Yoga

Light is the medium that informs our perception through sight. I sculpturally use glass to manipulate light, to create another dimension, enticing the viewer to look through the glass and see the contiguous space within and beyond. In this age of digitized mass media and our constant consumption of secondhand experiences we often miss the details. With my sculptural endeavors I attempt to bring this experience of immediacy back into our lives.

My work is generally fun and whimsical. I guess my work is a combination of cartoon and Pop Art. Putting a smile on someone’s face when they see my work is very satisfying. I don’t worry too much about proportions, as they can in themselves, create something interesting. My figurative work literally grows organically from the feet upwards.

My work is a process of form reaching towards beauty. Whether it being design, sculptural, architectural or functional. The design philosophy is simple: form follows function, using only the essential lines to define the object, it’s about how form presents itself, the message it conveys and the feelings that it calls forth.

Central to my work is humanity, and most notably, the human head, the center of thought, reason, and creativity. My sculptures reflect an intense relationship between myself and the clay with which I am working.

Namibian born and bred, residing in Cape Town since 2003.Even though I have no formal art training, my experience in film and theatre exposed me to manymaterials and taught me a variety of fabrication techniques over and above sculpture.Commissioned projects have ranged from miniature sets, up to 9m bronze monuments, dinosaurmuseum displays and everything in between. I enjoy the variety and the challenges commissionedwork provide

My work suggests that this shifting state of culture and a resulting sense of rootlessness is so much more apparent at the dawn of what Okwui Enwezor calls post-Westernism – a possibly threatening, unstable no man’s land that we find ourselves in today. However, my characters are no longer individuals, but rather elements of an imagined realm beyond official history. They are the embodiment of a local cultural breakdown and a communal future where beliefs, assumptions and knowledge about place and culture can be deconstructed and re-negotiated.

Paul du Toit was a South African artist who carved a unique niche in the international arena for his Pop Arty, naively painted paintings and sculptures before his sad demise from illness in 2014. Du Toit's art remains his own; a linear, phantasmic world that he created from his mind and experiences.

A  performer and puppeteer, Phahlo Mtangai loves his culture and African Religion.

Sarah is experienced and well versed at executing commissioned tasks; from small coffee table pieces, portrait busts and monumental statues. She works closely with her client to creatively express their vision in the bronze works she sculpts.

My concept is about spirituality and find my own identity in the path of having a calling as all my work compliments each other from paintings, printmaking and sculptures I do. I use White oak wood collected in Mozambique to represent some part of my family's ancestors.

A quote from a book, a verse from a poem, a lyric of a song, or a simple chat with a friend becomes a medium to motivate and inspire. Siyabulela Ndodana sees himself as not only as a motivational sculptor. Working in clay he translates the words of the Wiseman into figures to inspire and motivate his audience.

As a land artist Strijdom van der Merwe generally uses the materials as found on a chosen site. These sculptural forms take shape in relation to the landscape. It is a process of working with the natural environment/ world by using what is found on site and then shaping these elements into geometrical forms until it gradually integrates with the natural environment again. 

Carol Cauldwell was born in Germiston in 1968 and grew up in the beautiful surroundings of Magaliesburg. Inspired by her Father’s love for art, she joined the Johannesburg school of Art, Ballet, Drama and Music, first specialising in music and then changing over to art

In 2018, towards the end of my career in the corporate world, I began paining in oils, mainly large format landscapes that rangede between realism and impressionism with a focus on light, specificallt reflected light. I have always been intrigued by the way that light reflects off surfaces and the way that colours are ameliorated by the light source, hence my intrest in shadows . reflections, refraction and shade.

Born in 1971, my love for art started at school and lead to my studies in textile design. Most of working career was spent the in fashion and decor insudtry. During the stressful times of covid needed a way to quite my mind and sooth my soul. I went back to my first love art. Having previously painted I wanted to express myself through a diffrent medium. Sculpture was something completely new to me but I fell in love immediately. 

Jaco has produced art throughout his life. As a young adult. He would gift friends with sculptures made from tile cement from construction sites. In 2004, he cast his first bronze, but it took another 10 years before he returned to bronze casting, a passion which has morphed into a second career.

I was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on the 26th September 1970. I matriculated in 1989.In 1990 I enrolled to study a three year Graphic Design Diploma course at the Technicon of the Orange Free State.After my studies I was conscripted for National Service in the South African National Defense Force for one year.

My work involves a cumulative, labour-intensive process, whereby the relationship betweenthe body and material is inextricably bound by time and memory. I work primarily withfound, readymade often discarded objects and materials such as teabags, matchesandmasking tape, which through a process of accumulation, are transformed into large scalesculptural forms and installations.

Pholile Hlongwane was born in Bergville KwaZulu-Natal where she finishedher highschool. She was introduced into art at her earlier stage; she helps her aunt withbeadedworks and wire craft. She went on to improve her skills at Vaal University of Technologywhere she obtain her Degree in Fine Art. Hlongwane is a practising artist basedinJohannesburg; she finds her interest in sculpting, ceramics, pastels drawing andbeadedwork. She works with different mediums including clay, bones, cement, beads andtwigs.Hlongwane has participated in various group exhibitions in Johannesburg, CapeTownand KwaZulu Natal

Contemporary Artist Sculptor and interior designer. Lize J is currently living in the picturesque town of Knysna. As a young girl her free spirit was inflused by the ruggedness of Bushmanland where she grew up. Her inspiration comes from breathing wildlife and nature of Africa. She has the unique ability to create and sculpt artwork that speaks to the soul.

Oscar Henning has been making jewellery since the early 1990s, recently shifting focus towards sculpture and specifically miniature sculpture .His current work is tiny when viewed from the perspective of a sculptor but huge when viewed from that of a goldsmith. He combines jewellery and sculpture techniques to create highly detailed miniature artworks in metal and stone.He is a self taught artist who is based in Cape Town

Niel Jonker is a process oriented sculptor in bronze and terracotta who paints outdoors in oil and facilitates experiential workshops.

Luyanda Mkhize(1995)is a Johannesburg based artist. Born & raised in a township called Kwamashuin Durban. He spent most of his childhood doodling comic characters & writing comic book storylines.After he matriculated at Rossburgh High School hewent on to study Human ResourcesManagement at Berea Tech, he later dropped out to go study Fine Art at Durban university ofTechnologywhere he would majorin painting & sculpture.

I began producing shredded money artworks as early as 2012. My objective with shredded currency is toproduce artworks that comment on themes of authenticity, sustainability, consumer culture andrecycling all layered under a South African socio-economic and political context. Consumer culture inmodern societies is on the rise and the relations between the production and consumption of culturalgoods are changing.

Sandy Maytham-Bailey is currently based in Johannesburg and works in the art field as a conservation framer and curatorial advisor. While a relatively specialised field, the conservation and preservation of art is increasingly sought after by collectors and galleries for the protection and longevity of special and simply loved works. 

Sonja grew up on a farm in the North-Western part of South-Africa. She loved the simplicity, open veld and big horizons of this vast, flat landscape. Her earliest childhood memories are that of playing in the spruit with clay, making dolosse with her friends. Here she experienced the dignity and quiet of being at one with nature but also being at nature’s mercy to provide rain at the right time to secure her future.

Xirilo Wyne Ngobeni, a 28 year old male from Ha-Mashau Doli, Venda in Limpopo. Professional ceramist who is currently doing his Post-graduate diploma in Fine Arts and managed to obtained cumlaude for his Advance Diploma in Fine Arts at Tshwane university of technology. Been a ceramic student assistant for three years in the department of Fine and studio arts( TUT). This ceramicist was nominated as part of Innobos national craft awards finalist in 2021 and featured in two magizines( Clayforms and Cultural Feel, living heritage), 2022

Dominic Albinski was born in Johannesburg, in 1975. He started sculpting at a young age at the Art classes of Mercia Desmond. From the start, he was in contact with the themes that would follow him his whole life. He had an exhibition on Mandela Square in 2004 in Sandton. After finishing St John’s College he left for Paris and later Warsaw where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. His first major exhibitions where in Normandy France and at the Canadian and South African Embassies in Warsaw.

I am Anathi Nkanyuza a 26 year old artist also known as Elpee, I was born on 23 August 1995 in Tsomo, Eastern Cape. I am currently residing in Pretoria, Gauteng. I am a socio-political artist well known for my smoke/fumage art. My works is mostly influenced by social factors, I use figurative art with boxes as their heads to address these issues through my work. The concept of the boxes mainly comes up from the phrase "Think out of the box" so I take it as If our heads are the boxes that stores information about what's happening within and on the outside world.

Trained in dramatic arts, Eve de Jong worked in film and television before concentrating on design and sculptural work produced with found and recycled objects. Eve was born in Cape Town in 1966, and raised in South Africa, Belgium and the Netherlands, where her father worked as a fabric merchant and her mother a fashion designer. On her return to South Africa, Eve completed her schooling and studied Dramatic Art at Wits University, before working as a producer and director, for a national television broadcaster and advertising agency.

Glen Cook, born 1988, studied Product Design at the Cape Town University of Technology. Growing up north of Cape Town in a small coastal community, was introduced to art at a young age and encouraged to create. Drawing inspirations from the works of Ralph Steadman, his dark illustrations and eclectic style. South African artist William Kentridge and his mastery of mix medium and Alex Garant with her expression of mental issues

Gabriele Jacobs (1997, Johannesburg) is in his final year of completing an MFA from Michaelis school of fine art in Cape Town. His work predominantly makes use of animal imagery to discuss contemporary concerns- both environmental and societal. Jacobs explores examples from nature which contradict the heteronormative lens through which contemporary society has been framed by western hegemony.

Ivan Mostert completed his internship (2017) at Dionysus Sculptures International (PTY)Ltd. A professional sculpture studio & foundry that focuses mainly on large scale public art on both a national & international scale. From 2018 until present day he works as an artist assistant and wax specialist at Workhorse Bronze Foundry. His practice centers around deciphering his daily experiences as a pedestrian within the city of Johannesburg. He explores the viability of geometry and explains that these structures are made using a method reminiscent of automatism accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of his creative process

Jean Doyle’s work is renowned all over the world and her veneration of the fuller female figure has become a trademark of her work as well as a tool for social commentary. Her work is an investigation into the character of woman. The woman is presented as bold, capable and confident. Her body is as bounteous as her beauty. She lacks nothing. Her self-image remains intact and indifferent to fashionable trends. She exudes resilience, strength and warmth.

Du Plessis encourages individual interpretation, despite the pieces being inspired by personal experiences. Bold, large-scale mixed-media works, largely monochromatic, using oil, acrylic and gypsum plaster, walk the line between order and chaos.

My work explores identity and our place in the world through the use of the human body. This exploration draws on how you come to accept “who you are” or rather “who you have identified with being” and how this identity is influenced by life in society. I am particularly interested in stereotypical beliefs which lead to stereotypical behaviour patterns. Belief systems which keep us trapped in binary opposition and acts which cast us in conformity or complacency and result in lonely crowds and the radical absence of freedom.

My ‘talent’ (for a lack of a better w o r d ) f o r s c u l p t i n g w a s discovered while sitting on a river bank while my children were fishing. I picked out some of the clay-like mud and made small figurines. It was at that moment that I realised that I love working with clay and that I perhaps have some creative talent. It was the beginning of my journey.

Oupavusi Mokwena consistently attracts much attention for his creativity and interesting use of materials. He was selected as a finalist in the Sasol New Signature Art Competition and Design Indaba 2009 and 2010. His experience includes interior design and product development including carpentry and wood work and he has created various products for Carrol Boyes.

Uwe Pfaff is a dreamer-artist whose fertile ideas continually spring to life in dream-driven mythological figures, creatures and animals that dance, prance, or swim, whether birthed in his signature stainless steel or expressed in a myriad of diverse media of which he is master. His works also explore the concept of identity and what it is to be human. Pfaff’s works tease engagement by virtue of their irreverence, wit and often tactile presence. They whisper a joyful playfulness which can stimulate equally serious reflection.

Tumelo Mphela was born 29 June 1995 in the rural village of Mohlotlo, Limpopo, where he grew up. His Teachers at Madibane High School recognized his talent and encouraged him to persue a career in art. Tumelo is currently living in Pretoria.

My childhood growing up on a farm in South Africa instilled in me the enjoyment ofmaking things, beingpractical and “getting my hands dirty”.Having attended a range of artistic and sculpture specific courses, conceptual masterclasses and mentorships both locally and abroad, I further developed both thetechnical skills and understanding of sculpture by working closely with and assistingseveral leading South African artist