Senzo Shabangu (b. 1985), originally from the village of Driefontein in Mpumalanga, spent much of his formative years at an apostolic mission station—an experience frequently…
Home City: Johannesburg
Sandile Zulu
Sandile Zulu (b. 1962) is a South African artist who works with fire to create works that give expression to his wide-ranging interests in astronomy,…
Stephen Hobbs
Stephen Hobbs’ (b. 1972) practice has been underpinned by three core interest areas: architecture and the built environment, art and war, and anatomy and the…
Jessica Webster
ssica Webster (b. 1981) is a South African painter. Webster’s work is characterised by its intricate exploration of diverse themes and materiality, with a particular…
Richard Penn
Richard Penn has developed a multidisciplinary practice grounded in systems, perception and cosmological inquiry. Working across painting, ceramics, drawing and installation, his work translates complex fields of…
Ryan Arenson
Ryan Arenson approaches artmaking through a meticulous and labour-intensive process wherein line, pattern, and drawing are essential elements of his practice. His work is not…
Maja Maljević
Maja Maljević (b.1973) is an expressionist painter and printmaker combining organic and geometric shapes to seek harmony in disparate ideas. Motivated by the physicality of…
Diane Victor
Diane Victor (b. 1964) is a contemporary South African artist known for her drawings and prints that explore social injustice, war, and corruption. Victor’s practice…
Kagiso Mautloa
Kagiso Patrick “Pat” Mautloa (b. 1952) is a renowned South African artist and pioneer of modernist South African painting. His work studies the street life…
Daniel “Stompie” Selibe
Daniel “Stompie” Selibe is an expressionist painter who amalgamates his musical and visual talent. He describes his work as “a dialogue between the image making process, the visual representation itself…
Bruce Backhouse
Bruce Backhouse (b. 1950), based in Johannesburg, is known for painting desert landscapes of the Karoo and Kalahari. His work typically excludes figures, though he…
David Koloane
David Koloane (b. (1938 – 2019) was an influential artist, writer, arts administrator, and curator, recognized as a pioneering Black modernist painter during South Africa’s…