Art work as therapy for young offenders

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The subject matter of photographer, activist and breast cancer survivor Tracey Derrick is often concerned with the outsider, whether it’s refugees, the 1 in 9 women ...

A failure of imagination

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THIS year marks the 350th year of Castle of Good Hope, which is in the process of being submitted to UNESCO to be listed as a World Heritage Site. It’s also the ...

‘Messing about with paint’

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STUDIO: Celebrating the Lives and Works of South African Artists in an exhibition which draws from Iziko SA National Gallery Permanent Collection curated by Yentl ...

Artists explore home as a refuge​ and prison

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HOME TRUTHS. DOMESTIC INTERIORS IN SOUTH AFRICAN COLLECTIONS. An exhibition curated by Michael Godby at the ...

Intimate art encounters

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SOLO STUDIOS. Intimate art encounters in the Riebeek Valley. LUCINDA JOLLY reviews

Shipwrecks and shards at Chandler

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SHARDS, shipwrecks and skies in indigo inform this exhibition of prints, paintings and porcelain by designer and gallery owner Michael Chandler and atmospheric soundtracks ...

Capturing memories at Homecoming Centre

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The District Six Museum Homecoming Centre acknowledges District Six’s 50th anniversary. Lucinda Jolly contextualises.

A secret language

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Last year, the exhibition It begins with Battiss at The New Church contemporary art museum exhibited not only works by Walter Battiss, but also artists “whose production ...

‘That Art Fair’ enhances art focus

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FEBRUARY in Cape Town is synonymous with turbulence – gale force winds and prickly heat.

Visual splash at weekend Art Fair

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The 4th edition of the Cape Town Art Fair will be showcased at the CTICC from Friday to Sunday. Lucinda Jolly previews.

Artist Peter Clarke’s personal collection

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FOUR years ago the late Peter Clarke artist, poet, writer and recipient of the National Order of Ikhamanga had a retrospective exhibition at the Iziko National Gallery. ...

Feni captured suffering of the people

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Beyond the line: An exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Dumile Feni at Gallery Momo until Saturday. Lucinda Jolly reviews

A play on dark and light

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“WE all have two sides, one dark and the other light,” says photographer Jodi Bieber, who is probably best known for her iconic photograph of the 19-year old Afghan ...

Parallels to the Kogis

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There is a bronze age pre-Columbian tribe, unconquered by the Spanish conquistadors, who live high up in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta called the Kogis.

‘Unearthing Moses Tladi’

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BORN more than a century ago, landscape painter Moses Taldi was the first black artist to be shown at the Iziko National Gallery in 1931.

Irma Stern’s fruity, juicy African colour

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It’s a year just short of half a century since Irma Stern exhibited as a living artist.

A battle between good and evil

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A collaborative art installation investigating fracking at Iziko Natural History Museum featuring Deborah Weber, Damien Schumann, Elgin Rust, Gina Waldman, Margaret ...

Portrait award competition

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SANLAM PORTRAIT AWARD COMPETITION. At the Rust- en-Vrede gallery curated by John Hundt until October 8. LUCINDA JOLLY reviews.

Straddling the role of citizen and outsider

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“Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said,” once commented Louise Bourgeois.

Samson alludes to the ‘nasty business of betrayal’

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There is a dark, sticky quality about Cinga Samson’s paintings, both figuratively and literally.

Siopis’s tracts of fluid formlessness give grief a face

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PENNY SIOPIS’S current exhibition comes on the not quite cool heels of her first extensive retrospective Time and Again at the Iziko National Gallery at the beginning ...

Small windows bear witness to the past

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There's a Chinese proverb that says, "women hold up half the sky".

Conspiring for a seminal shot

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"You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it," an unknown author once said.

There’s a critical buzz about honeybees

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"Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards.

Theatre of the everyday

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Nico Krijno, photographer of the exhibition New Gestures: Fabricated to be Photographed, has been nominated for this year's Foam Paul Huf Award, which platforms ...