Meet Hugo E Silva, a visual artist, stylist, and set designer whose work blends fine art and fashion. With a fresh portfolio and a passion for innovation, Hugo is making huge moves in the creative industry, collaborating with esteemed brands and participating in high-profile events. Hugo’s formal education in fine arts has equipped them with…
Lebogang Mogul Mabusela is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores paper, ink and sculpture through a variety of formats and methodologies. They are the vessels through which she expresses thoughts, tensions and care with a hint of humorous narrative play. The outrage of the Black woman and calling out patriarchy, cis-heteronormativity and racism are central…
When we speak about music, you expect to see it notated in a specific manner —because of how we have been taught musicology. What happens when the notation takes a different form and opens itself up to the language of arrangement — an arrangement of lines, shapes and angles with variations of tonal beauty? David…
Originally from Cape Town, printmaker Roxy Kaczmarek lives and practices in Johannesburg. Obtaining her BA in Fine Art at Michaelis, she went on to work as a printer and studio manager at Warren Editions Print Studio. Recently she has submitted her dissertation and exhibition, Third Landscapes towards a Masters at the University of Johannesburg. The…
According to the World Economic Forum 15-20 million young Africans are expected to join the workforce every year for the next three decades —begging the question; what opportunities will exist to allow these young individuals meaningful work; work that is challenging, impactful and unexploitative. Surviving as an independent artist has always been a particularly difficult endeavour….
I just love it when Jazz and print medium collide! One example of such can be found in Mongezi Ncaphayi’s latest body of work whose “distinctively abstract visual vocabulary” (SMAC, 2016) brings these two mediums together. His works are minimalist in form. They’re representational of the sounds found in one’s own recounts of memorable score….
Alphabet Zoo, the Johannesburg based collective founded by printmakers Minenkulu Ngoyi and Isaac Zavale is hosting zine making nights at the Bubblegum Club project space in Newtown. Ngoyi and Zavale have extended an open invitation to cultural practitioners interested in collaborating on the development of a zine over a three “zine nights” residency in March….
