Watts is a contemporary artist who received her BFA in 2017 and participated in the Prizm Art Fair that same year. She works with various mediums and has appeared both in Barbados and internationally (New York, San Francisco, Miami, etc). Her first solo show launched in March 2019 at the World Trade Centre in New York City in 2021. Online, she has appeared in exhibitions, auctions, articles (Easy magazine, M People, Art LeadHER, and Artnet) and shops, including Artsy, Les Iles and Good Black Art. She focuses on her relationship with her natural hair and her Caribbean roots. Her body of work entitled “Moments from My Island Home” is her way of bridging the gap between the realistic and the idealistic view of her island, Barbados.

Celebrated internationally for fabric constructions with embroidery and collage, Amita Makan infuses her work with identity, memory, and history by using vintage saris while incorporating contemporary influence with found materials, like plastic litter. She has produced four solo exhibitions: Āvāhana- Invocation (Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein, 2021), Vasant (Galerie Rosa Turetsky, Geneva, 2016), Nomalungelo: Threads To Freedom (Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 2014), and Evanescence (KZNSA, Durban, 2011). She has appeared in various group exhibitions both locally and internationally, such as Fynarts Festival (Hermanus 2022) and Imago Mundi – Bennetton Foundation (Treviso, Rome, Venice Biennale, Pratt Institute of Brooklyn and the United Nations, New York, 2015). She has been awarded residencies in Paris and Hyderabad with works housed in numerous exhibits around the world.

A multi-disciplinary artist specialising primarily in fields of traditional painting and new media, du Plessis studied Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, a postgraduate diploma in Art Therapy in the UK, as well as a degree in Multimedia Digital Visual Arts (UNISA Cum Laude). As winner of the Sasol New Signatures award, she showcased her first solo exhibition in 2022 at the Pretoria Art Museum. Her work explores humanity’s complex relationship with both nature and technology.She experiments with emerging technologies such as augmented reality, algorithmic art, image and sound generated by artificial intelligence, as well as virtual reality. She revisits antiquity through painting techniques used by the old masters while exploring contemporary technological inclusions. The result is a tension-filled interface that transports the viewer into a familiar yet alien world

Bercia Roos is a local artist who finds beauty and purpose in detritus and discarded items. Her career began as an interior decorator and fashion designer, and she continued creating three-dimensional art from discarded and pre-loved materials after completing her first recycled art figurine as a birthday gift for a special friend. From this artistic interpersonal connection, she discovered a world of debris at her fingertips. Roos explores rebirth and connections to the past through the repurposing of junk and scrap from various sources, from found objects in the world around her to her husband's workshop and Johannesburg's salvage yards. Through her creative vision, she channels the ethos that one person’s trash could be another’s treasure.

A visual artist working in video, performance, sculpture and new media, Knoetze holds a BA in Fine Arts from Rhodes University and an MFA from Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT. His work retraces the life cycles of discarded objects and explores junctures between material and social histories. In his sculptural suits, the synthetic is welded to the human. His multifaceted approach has focused on investigating technopolitics and relationships between production, consumption and waste. His work explores these objects within social and political contexts and has been exhibited at the Dakar Biennale, Centre Pompidou, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Lubumbashi Biennale, The Guggenheim and the Akademie der Künste. Fellowships and awards include Digital Earth Fellowship (2019), Mail and Guardian’s Top 100 Young South Africans (2017), and Mozilla Foundation’s Creative Media Award (2022).

Mbali Tshabalala (1988) is a Johannesburg based artist and curator who has recently relocated from Cape Town after spending two year as assistant curator at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA). She’s currently completing a Bachelors Degree in Fine and Applied Art from the Tshwane University of Technology. Mbali studied printmaking at the Art Proof Studio and has a background in Graphic Design. She is also the founder of the Collective UNTITLD and has been working as a curator in Pretoria, Cape Town and Johannesburg for the last six years

Nyakallo Maleke is a local artist and writer, based in Johannesburg. Her creative practice is grounded in an expanded concept of drawing, which she views as a means to tell stories about space, movement, and walking. Maleke's drawings and artworks take shape through various media, techniques, and disciplines, manifesting as installations, performances, sound pieces, prints, or sculptures. Her most recent works are invested with materiality, often combining traditional drawing media with meticulous embroidery like stitching and unconventional materials such as wax paper. In 2015, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Wits University and has participated in a variety of group exhibitions at venues including Aichi Triennale in Japan as well as the Modzi Arts Gallery in Zambia.

A multi-disciplinary artist who experiments with clay and multiple mediums to create installations inspired by natural and urban landscapes, Bucktowar specialises in ceramic topographical sculptures and installations. She graduated with a Bachelor in Architectural Studies at Nelson Mandela University in 2013 and currently lectures while running her own design practice and ceramic business (Nindya Ceramics and co-director of NT Design Studio, NT Leather and Kalki Ceramics). She was selected for the RMB Talent Unlocked programme in association with Everard Read and Strauss & Co, after which her work was acquired by FirstRand art collection. She has appeared in several group exhibitions and collaborative projects, and held her first solo exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery in 2021. Most recently, she won the Nando’s Hot Young Designer competition, led by Clout SA.

Mapondera’s tumultuous education (as a result of his country’s economical and political frustrations) led him to apply at the National Gallery Visual Art and Design. He was advised to pursue this avenue, since art is his passion and he wanted to enrich his knowledge. In 2011, his application was not successful. He then went to the countryside to work in farming as well as work towards building another portfolio to use for his next application. With his keenness and tenacity, he received the guidance needed to curate another strong portfolio from his brother who is a prominent visual artist (Wallen Mapondera). Finally, he enrolled in his dream school in 2015 and graduated in 2016. He now works as a full-time artist from Chitungwiza, near Harare

Kufakwatenzi works with self-expression, telling people’s stories and recording what she sees and experiences in her day-to-day life. She works with different mediums, allowing them to bring out the best of herself through installations, performance art and photography and a few inspirations such as music, poetry, dance and fashion. Her work is mostly feminine, touching on gender, religion, social structures, politics and the impacts of these elements on us as a people. Through these areas, Kufakwatenzi feels able to express herself and speak up on pressing matters, providing a voice for the voiceless and advocating for those most often left by the wayside without the platforms to express on a larger scale. She seeks to be an inspiration to others and, importantly, also to herself.

Art proved to be a passion for Guzha in school, which led him to focus on art as a career and continued his art education at the National Gallery School of Visual Art and Design from 2013 to 2016. He successfully completed his studies with a certificate of competence. The artist has participated in several exhibitions in Zimbabwe and South Africa since 2013. He describes the process of his practice as infinite as he feels mediums can be manipulated in so many different ways to build images. Inspired by Batik, he says that circles are a prominent visual element in his work, in both paintings and sculptures. Guzha believes that everything in life exists as a circle – even life itself, and things keep repeating themselves in different ways.

Bardavid was born in Alexandria Egypt and has travelled extensively, living in Italy, Zimbabwe, Zaire and South Africa. She has remained firmly rooted in the ‘abstract’ throughout her career which spans more than four decades. Bardavid studied under the guidance of the artist, teacher and activist Bill Ainslie at the Johannesburg Art Foundation (1979-1983). Completed her Matric in 1984 and enrolled as a Fine Art student at UNISA in 1985 achieving a B.A.F.A. in 1989. The inspiration and passion that she manifests in her work demonstrates the sincerity in her conviction, which offers the work integrity and justifies the critical and commercial successes it has garnered through the years which made her the highlight artist in 2016 at the 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair in London.