Latest Talents

David Krut Projects has had the privilege of working with many wonderful artists over the years. Some have been short collaborations, with artist coming in for short intensive sessions with our skilled printers, producing one or two bodies of works. Others have the potential to become longer collaborations still, their relationship with DKW growing year by year. Below are some of the talents that we have worked with in recent years. 

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Boemo Diale started an internship at David Krut Workshop in July 2022, after having met with David Krut at the Turbine Art Fair in 2021. She was an Honours student at Wits University studying Film and Television, and undertook the internship to see how print could influence her practice. Diale’s first show with the David Krut Gallery, entitled Can I Play?, was held at the 151 Gallery in February 2023. The exhibition presented a series of prints created during her internship at DKW alongside her paintings.

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In 2022, Peter Cohen collaborated with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) to create a series of monotype prints and a large-scale linocut to form part of a body of work showcased in an exhibition at the David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, titled Colour in black and white.  In 2023, Peter returned to the workshop, again working with DKW collaborator Sarah Judge, to explore pronto lithography in a series of works about urban landscapes.  In 2024 Peter embarked on another large-scale linocut this time working with DKW printer Sbongiseni Khulu. The work debuted in March 2025 at the David Krut Projects Booth at the Brooklyn Art Fair, New York.

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Heidi Fourie has been collaborating with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) since 2017, when she first came in to create a series of watercolour monotypes. She has since created a number of works with DKW, and her work – both prints and paintings – has been presented at art fairs and included in many group exhibitions at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. In 2021, David Krut Projects presented a solo show of Fourie’s work Grass You Can Swim In. The exhibition included etchings and monotypes made in collaboration with David Krut Workshop, as well as paintings. In 2022, Fourie participated in a three-week residency at the workshop where she explored mark-making in drawing with pastels and began a new series of etchings using soft-ground. During and after this residency, she created a body of work for her solo exhibition that same year titled On Soft Ground. In the beginning of 2023, Fourie once again collaborated with the David Krut Workshop to create a series of monotypes that were shown at the 2023 Latitudes Art fair. Fourie’s work was also shown in the DKP booth at the 2024 Latitudes art fair, she was also one of the featured artists of the fair. Her latest show with DKP, Unfurling, took place from 25 May to July of 2024. Heidi Fourie is one of the artists featured as part of South African Artists in New York, DKP’s ongoing initiative to showcase South African talent at our New York Gallery. 

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In Late 2023 David Krut, while in London, visited an exhibition titled “Dualities” by Undiscovered Canvas at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in Mayfair. Nthabiseng’s work stood out to him and he immediately planned to see if she would be available to spend time in the workshop making a body of prints. Fast forward to March 2024, Nthabiseng spent a week collaborating with Printer Roxy Kaczmarek at the David Krut Workshop (DKW) in Maboneng, Johannesburg. Her first foray in printmaking has produced an accomplished body of unique painterly prints – monotypes and a pair of large etchings. 

Kekana’s work explores femininity and spirituality, and it is rooted in a profound connection to her heritage. Her exploration is guided by her emotions and spirituality, leading her to examine otherworldly ideas. She works in a range of mediums, including oil, charcoal, pastels and natural fibres, to express the fluidity of creation.

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While walking around Keyes Art Mile in early 2024, David Krut spied the work of Stephen Langa on display at BKhz Gallery. After reaching out to the artist, he invited Langa to come work at our Printing Workshop at Arts on Main, Johannesburg. In March of that same year he began working with printer Sbongiseni Khulu, exploring monotypes .  In 2025 Langa was featured at the David Krut Projects booth at the Brooklyn Art Fair, New York. And has returned to the workshop to make a new body of unique painterly prints and etching. Langa’s intimate imagery explores stories of the people, experiences and environment around him.. His work is inspired by the  20th Century Impressionism art period , he researches and explores ways to capture his emotions and fuel his artworks. “Inspired by profound artist such as George Pemba, Claude Monet, Gerald Sekoto and Vincent Van Gogh, my charcoal linework and oil paintings have become pictorial visions that has a mesmerizing effect that is inspired directly by my emotive feelings that one can immediately identify and engage with the characters portrayed in such a way one would like to know them better in person.”

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Qhamanande Maswana came to work with David Krut Workshop in 2025 after a chance meeting with our director, Ame Bell, at our bookstore in Parkwood, Johannesburg. Maswana invited Ame to visit his studio to view his work. Following this, he was invited to work with printer Roxy Kaczmarek at the David Krut Workshop making monotypes. His work was featured at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair in March 2025.

Maswana has developed a unique style of portraiture that speaks to both the beauty and challenges of everyday life in South Africa. Effortlessly blending reality with imagination in each portrait, he often depicts the people he encounters in his day-to-day life in surreal purple hues as a way of portraying ‘the strength of [his] people and their descendancy from royalty.’

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In 2024, David came across Nkhensani Mkhari’s work being shown at the Johannesburg Art Fair with Church Gallery. Mkhari’s intimate works reminded David of the work of Agnes Martin.  After an introduction to Mkhari,  David invited him to visit our workshop at Arts on Main. In December 2024, he took up that offer and came in to work on monotypes, working alongside David Krut Workshop printers Roxy Kaczmarek and Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim. He continued his collaboration in 2025, resulting in a body of work that was shown at the David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, in March of the same year, his first exhibition with David Krut Projects.

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Pebofatso Mokoena first collaborated with the team at David Krut Workshop (DKW) in the production of a hard-ground etching in 2018. It was titled Statistical Weakness and later shown at the 2019 iterations of Fine Art Print Fair (hosted at Parktown Girls), Turbine Art Fair and LATITUDES Art Fair. The collaboration built on the relationship Mokoena established as an intern at David Krut Projects (DKP) in 2016.

Over 2019-2020 Mokoena worked at DKW towards his first solo show at DKP – Internal Probes – which opened in February 2020.

In 2023, Mokoena returned to the workshop at Arts on Main

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At the request of Mary Sibande who was working on a collaborative initiative for a group of young Joburg artists that she had taken on a mentoring role, we accepted Lusanda Ndita and Hoek Swaratlhe to come into the David Krut Workshop (DKW) at Arts On Main. Our printer Sbongiseni Khulu took over the mentoring process with these artists in gaining an understanding of the collaborative activities which are practiced at DKW.

In November 2023, Ndita came in for 5 days, for a concentrated mentoring session to learn about working on paper and the various mediums of printmaking. Sbongiseni took him through new mediums in the combination of monotype and pronto lithography, which they had gained insights from other workshops where they had been working.

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Motlhoki was first introduced to David Krut Projects in 2021, when she applied for and received a spot in the African Leipzig International Art Programme, which she completed in 2022. When she returned to the Workshop, she completed a series of experimental monotypes and unique etchings using lipstick and kissing to create the marks.

The artist worked with collaborative printmaker Sbongiseni Khulu,  who guided the artist in terms of what printmaking techniques could further develop the ideas she had begun fleshing out in the body of work that was to be presented in her solo exhibition as part of the Ernest Cole Award. These works being the intitial photographs the artist had captured to begin exploring this subject, were used as a starting point in the development of the print works.  

The  artist began working to capture the ‘moment’ of a kiss by pressing the face against a scanner to create a photograph. This method was initially translated into the traditional printmaking technique of the monotype. In this process the artist was able to apply the same mechanism of capturing the kiss while also creating an image that has a unique artistic impression and style that could only be achieved through the monotype process.

The oil-based monotype became the starting point of experimentation, progressively expanding into the  pronto lithography and softground etching. Softground  etching  emerged as the most effective medium for her exploration of love, through the impression of a kiss, as this medium captures the fine details of all textures. 

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Ntuli was one of the three artists featured at the South African Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Bienniale which was curated by our very own DKP director, Ame Bell. He is a multi – disciplinary artist who gathers various archive materials which are collaged together to explore historical gaps and how these inform our narratives. Ntuli constructs his imagery out of collage, transfers and layering of different mediums.

2023, collaboratively with DKW printer, Kim-Lee Loggenberg, he began experimenting with the printmaking processes of monotypes and pronto lithography. The result of this collaboration is a body of work titled, Kunanela iphuzu emafini / Echoes of the Point Cloud, which includes large scale paintings alongside the unique print works created at DKW.  The works from Kunanela iphuzu emafini/ Echoes of the Point Cloud debut at FNB Art Joburg 2023, presented by David Krut Projects.

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Paneng connected with our operations after being selected for a residency with the Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), associated with The Centre for the Less Good Idea. This residency, aimed at South African digital media artists, involved a collaborative printmaking project in Leipzig, Germany. David Krut Projects helped with the selection process and provided initial printmaking exposure to the artists before their overseas residencies. In 2022 David Krut Workshop (DKW) invited Paneng to collaborate on a series of prints with Sbongiseni Khulu, a process that has spanned continents over the following months and yielded a vibrant body of work unlike anything else in our archive.

Her print works, made in collaboration with DKW printmaker Sbongiseni Khulu, are distinguished by their punchy and playful use of pink and bright green. After starting with the monotype process, Paneng expressed interest in linocut for its graphic quality as well as pronto lithography to incorporate her character into her work. The body of work progressed into a series of whimsical scenes set in Paneng’s checkerboard playground, combing the printmaking processes of linocut, pronto lithography and embossing.

 

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In late 2023, the David Krut Workshop (DKW) was approached by Mary Sibande to collaborate as part of The Occupy the Gallery mentorship programme. The aim of the programme was to introduce a number of different artists from different backgrounds to the world of printmaking. As a collective the artists would occupy a space, create work in that space and then showcase the work, moving through the different aspects of print and workshops as they go. 

n April of 2024, Sibande actively began her collaboration with DKW, working with Khulu on a woodblock print approx. 105 x 76 cm in size. Ash wood was chosen for it’s high durability. In it’s production and repetitive reproduction, Mary drew and collaged various versions of her famed character “Sophie”. Once the image had came into its key components it was then transferred onto the wood and carved by hand for a total of 7 weeks. That said, Khulu made it a point to translate each carved mark exactly as it was in the final image such that her hand was not lost in the collaboration, which hadn’t met its conclusion yet. Sibande and Khulu would go on to explore printing onto various multicolored pieces of paper for collage, as well as mixing oil-based monotype layers with woodcut to highlight aspects of the character. In true Sibande fashion the colour combinations used in all of the explorations involved different shades of the colour blue. 

 

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At the request of Mary Sibande who was working on a collaborative initiative for a group of young Joburg artists that she had taken on a mentoring role, we accepted Lusanda Ndita and Hoek Swaratlhe to come into the David Krut Workshop (DKW) at Arts On Main. Our printer Sbongiseni Khulu took over the mentoring process with these artists in gaining an understanding of the collaborative activities which are practiced at DKW.

In February and March 2024, Swaratlhe came in to start working with Sbongiseni. He came in for concentrated mentoring sessions to learn about working on paper and the various mediums of printmaking. Sbongiseni took him through new mediums in the combination of monotype and pronto lithography, which they had gained insights from other workshops where they had been working.

 

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In 2016, Nina Torr worked in collaboration with David Krut Workshop (DKW) to create a number of watercolour monotypes. The ensuing works were featured in the group exhibition A Piece of Work in 2017.

In 2018, she produced new etchings with the team at DKW which were subsequently shown at David Krut Project’s (DKP) booth for the RMB Turbine Art Fair 2019.

In 2020, Nina Torr had her solo Masters exhibition at the David Krut Gallery in Parkwood in 2020 titled Wayfinding.

At the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, Torr collaborated with DKW to create a brand new series of etchings with handpainting and chine colle. The body of work which was shown at the end of February 2023 at The Blue House in Parkwood in a solo exhibition titled Marginalia.

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Anna van der Ploeg (b. 1992) is a contemporary South African artist. Her professional practice is far-reaching, including but not limited to the mediums of painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Van der Ploeg has held several solo exhibitions, has shown in galleries locally and abroad, and has works in private collections and institutions, among which is the South African National Art Bank. She recently completed her MFA at KASK Royal Conservatory of Art in Belgium with high distinction. Though the catalyst to her work is loosely conceptual, her process is labor-intensive, perceptive, and specialized. As a figurative artist, she searches for new metaphors to convey insights about our common assemblies, to find rhythms in the motion of social, artistic, and intellectual contexts. She is currently based in Brussels at the 5-month-long M-residency.

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Zhi Zulu started working with David Krut Projects (DKP) in 2018, featuring in the group exhibitions The Cat Show and Post This!. In 2019, she collaborated with David Krut Workshop (DKW), producing a silkscreen print together with printer Roxy Kaczmarek called Zebra Crossing. It was her first time being involved in printmaking and the print was later shown at Turbine Art Fair. This experience has led to a 5-part silkscreen series – The Curious Five which ran from 2019-2022. In 2023, DKW collaborated with Chocolate Ink Studio to create a new silkscreen print of Zulu’s entitled JOZI-pocalypse which was launched at Turbine Art Fair 2023.

Zhi Zulu has also been the interview partner in two episodes of David Krut Podcast.

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