Chris Soal

Chris Soal / art&culture

1.1 – create platforms over galleries

A few days ago American art critic and recent-Pulitzer Prize Winner Jerry Saltz published an article criticising the current art fair struct...

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Multimedia artist Ruth Angel Edwards on tracing and revealing the “sub” in culture.

Ruth Angel Edwards is a multimedia artist whose work explores the communication of ideology through pop culture, drawing from mainstream and...

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Growth fuelled by partnerships and collaborations – Gallery One11

Interdisciplinary practices within the arts, and even society in general, is one of the symptoms of post-modernism, pushing back at a modern...

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A Permanent Creation Off the Cuff

The Centre for the Less Good Idea  is a multifaceted platform, with curated seasonal projects twice annually. In addition to this they have ...

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Gavin Krastin – The embodiment of unveiling

Gavin Krastin’s name has been popping up in art circles for some time now, and is often accompanied by shocking titles, graphic images, or s...

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Nick Mulgrew on writing, publishing and unearthing literary gems

Buckle up, we’re getting meta about writing here - this is an article where a writer writes about writing and the reality of being a writer,...

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Custom Conversations

Popping up on numerous creative radars, Dada Khanyisa aka The Mighty Whale is propelling herself forward in the South African creative indus...

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Seeds of possibility planted at Victoria Yards

The inner city of Johannesburg has had an interesting history over the last 25 years. In the changes that took place around 1994, many white...

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JOHANNESBURG. MADE IN CHINA

In the hustle and bustle of a metropolis like Johannesburg, it makes sense that there’s way more going on than one might expect. Partly to b...

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The tension between the private and the personal

Łukasz Horbów is a 22 year-old performer and multidisciplinary artist from Poland. His works, which can be accessed through his tumblr blog,...

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Interwoven Narratives in the work of Alexis Peskine

Alexis Peskine is an internationally renowned artist attracting a lot of attention for his incredible large-scale portraits of powerful blac...

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Kyra Papé – Between Seduction and Sickness

Bulbous and sickly-looking forms installed at The Point of Order during the Situation exhibition in 2016 both enticed and disgusted viewers....