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Gadesi Skhathi // The Time is Now for Zana Masombuka

B’thaka s’yananaba,snanabel’ iqiniso Ibekiwe is’londa s’babel umniniso Ivuth’amalangabi ngendeni lendaba,siyatjha Ndl’ ekulu,B’nzinzo lwazi nasi indaba s’batjha – Thembisile Mkhatshwa   In a complex exploration of identity Zana Masombuka, also known as the Ndebele Superhero, probes notions of heritage and its relevance in the contemporary moment – across the time-space continuum. Zana shares stories of the…

Onder Die Invloed // merging design disciplines

Clearly defined markings that designate where one creative practice ends and another begins is almost impossible, with practitioners recognizing the value of merging multiple forms of expression. Partners Leanie van der Vyver and Louis Christie push this further with their design company Onder Die Inlvoed. Combining Leanie’s background in art and design with Louis’s background…

Luck MrEmpty shares on the art of graffiti

Street art is a diverse art movement, one that has grown in popularity as work being exhibited in the streets continue to develop in size, style, and technicality. “A lot of people associate art inside of a gallery with elitism where as we as graffiti artists have broken that boundary”, expresses pop artist Luck MrEmpty (also known…

SMITH Studios Closes 2018 with ‘Rendezvous’

SMITH Studios opened its summer exhibition Rendezvous on the 5th of December 2018 featuring work by 23 of the gallery’s artists of 2018. Rendezvous acts as a closing to the gallery’s fourth year of operation and was begun with LOVE? – Banele Khoza’s first solo show with SMITH. Going on to the AKAA Fair in…

Follow the egg trail // Newwork 18

If you have spotted stickers with images of cracked eggs or seen people walking around Braamfontein with the same image printed on black and white t-shirts, don’t worry. This is not the beginning of an egg worshipping cult. This playful image was chosen by the Wits Fine Art graduating class of 2018 to guide you…

What is the ‘self’? What is ‘space’? – Abstractions with Michael MacGarry

I am increasingly drawn to the narrative capacity of objects – especially those repurposed from my immediate surroundings, that morph from utility to aesthetic, through processes of grafting imaginary and visible realities – as embodying compound ideas and multiple antecedents (both formally and conceptually) yet are not manifest. That are in fact resistant to overt…