Dr Willie Bester is globally recogised as one of South Africa's foremost resistance artists. Willie scours the scrap heaps of the Western Cape collecting metal and found objects from which he creates his powerful assemblages and sculptures. These artworks are a powerful voice against injustice of all forms. 

Philiswa Lila is a visual artist, curator and scholar who is fascinated by the socially relevant and timely issues of authorship and agency. She works across different genres and mediums including oil and acrylic paintings, sculpture and beadwork that often show influences of her isiXhosa culture. 

Gerald Chukwuma (b. 1973) is one of Nigeria’s fastest rising contemporary artists noted for his intricately crafted wood-slate sculptures. Using a multitude of techniques, his unique approach to burning, chiseling, and painting common materials captures a richly layered history imbedded with personal and political meaning

Clint Strydom is a talented South African photographer, lens-based artist and photo essayist with a profound gift for capturing humanity. His lens-based artistry unravels the hidden perspectives of the overlooked or forgotten in society, resulting in work that is timeless, measured and still. His self-taught technical flair and experimental signature style has created visual narratives whose timeless profundity permeates political, private and commercial spaces.

Aza Mansongi’s Congolese background schooled her in classical, figurative realism. But her life experience growing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an area massively impacted by war and conflict, to her studies and current life in Douala in Cameroon and her innate positivity has given her artworks a unique ‘Aza’ style. Whilst Aza could have been forgiven for creating artworks filled with angst and negativity this would have conflicted with the positive way in which she approaches life and all that she does.

"When looking at a Ndebele painting or murals, people get a smile of amazement on their faces... And it makes me happy as well, as I love to paint - it is in my heart and in my blood!" Dr Esther Mahlangu is a multi-award winning visual artist, and much loved South African cultural ambassador. She was born in 1935 and has been painting since she was 10 years old.

“The emphasis is on “magic, accident, irrational, symbols and dreams.”Carl Roberts is a master craftsman and sought after visual artist who gently massages natural materials such as bone, wood, and stone to expose the hidden message in their form, patina, grain and textures.

Stead`s technical skill and first-hand experience in a multitude of materials and sculpture processes have allowed him to produce work of exceptional quality with high expression and elegance. He continues his work studying the "human condition" and supports the idea that people are generally good and a part of nature rather than separate from it.

Following in the tradition of the ‘Renaissance Man’, Pitika Ntuli is a true artistic, political and academic polymath. Interested in exploring the contradictory relationship between tradition and modernity, Ntuli’s witty and dark reflections on our society are captivating and visionary.

Sfiso Ka-Mkame was born in Clermont, Durban in 1963. He studied art in the 80’s and gained fame in 1988 when he sold his ‘Letters to God’ series of drawings to the South African National Gallery in Cape Town. In 1996 he held his first solo exhibition at the BAT Centre in Durban and has exhibited extensively since then.Sfiso was active in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and his early work reflected the political conflict, daily struggles and hardships he witnessed around him.

Watching Edozie at work in his studio in Benin City in Nigeria can be quite entertaining, an almost performance art piece in itself. Edozie converses with his canvas as he applies his paint in aggressive strokes taking inspiration from alternative music that plays in the background.

Denis Mubiru’s vibrant, expressionistic works narrate the personal and the public life stories of everyday Africans. Chaotic, raw and colourful, Denis’s style encapsulates a gritty examination of contemporary urban African issues: economic inequality, human rights, social stratification, the environment and evolving personal relationships.

Visionary, thoughtful as much as intuitive, Mederic Turay uses his talents to participate in raising awareness by telling the most beautiful as well as the hardest stories. This multidisciplinary storyteller lives his art as a privilege and uses a plurality of techniques to create entities, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, which become the protagonists of his graphic stories.

"In 1979 (when I was 30 years old) I contracted Legionnaires disease from drinking water on a golf course. Within a week I ‘died’. The resultant near death experience transported me to a place where energy and its workings was revealed to me in such utter detail and clarity that it drastically changed the way I look at everything.. life and death.. and painting.

Gavin Rain is a contemporary South African painter known for his use of Pointillist techniques to depict portraits of celebrities such as Beyoncé and Marilyn Monroe. “Each dot usually comprises five or so colors. When seen from a distance these colors become one and the image resolves,” he has explained of his technique.

Born in the Démocratique République of Congo in 1977, Pitsho Mafolo's work depicts questions about the relativity between cultural identity and human behaviour. He questions cultural identity crises and the historical heritage of human societies, with a particular emphasis on African culture. Fragments of bodies half man and half animal often appear in his painting, which tell the realities of an African culture fragmented by foreign hegemony.

"There is always a secondary narrative in my work. The primary narrative has symbolic authority and aesthetic promise, although the mysterious secondary narrative exists in order to provoke thought in the viewer." Christiaan Diedericks is a multi-award winning visual artist who is considered by many to be one of the finest print makers to have emanated from South Africa. Christiaan has completed over 50 international residencies and has participated in more than 30 international Biennales.

As an Artist, expression has come to me as a matter of trying to grow the feeling and capturing the essence of the little things in life (the details) in their presence and their absence. My  aim was refreshing the memory of the viewer, about shifting environments and its people. My aim was to draw light to the tiny details that no one pays attention to.