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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansBorn in the Mexican border town of Yuma, Arizona, Gary Stephens arrived in South Africa in 2008. He studied painting and drawing at the University of Arizona and the San Francisco Art Instiutute. For the past thirty years, he has worked as an artist and traveled extensively in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and now Africa for inspiration...
South Africa is filled with an array of art, amazing murals on the city's buzzing buildings. The galleries on the other hand are amazing and here are a few independent art galleries you should know. ROOMGallery, project space and residency host ROOM focuses on collaborations between artists from a range of different disciplines. In pa...
Blessing Ngobeni (b. 1985, Tzaneen, South Africa) creates abstracted works with a range of found objects, magazine advertisements, newspaper articles, and paint on canvas. His mixed media works relate to themes of self-enrichment and the abuse of power, best understood in the context of his past. At the age of ten he moved to Johannesb...
At the end of March this year, an article claiming that “coloured” women in South Africa have low cognitive functioning was published in the academic journal, “Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition”. The article used a sample group of 60 women between the ages of 18 and 64.The authors were all scholars at Stellenbosch University. They ...
Whether it’s tagging (the stylised writing of an individual or crew’s name), posters, stickers, installations, murals or mosaics, graffiti has always been a contentious issue. Countries like the US, UK and Australia have adopted aggressive – and expensive – strategies to try and eradicate graffiti.But not all cities view graffiti as a ...
This is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published “Teaching for Change”.In 2016 female students at South Africa’s universities started the #EndRapeCulture campaign to mobilise against the pervasive culture of sexual viol...
30 May – 6 July 2019 Let us pray. I close my eyes and I see Jesus (white) surrounded by twelve men (white), he is far upon a hilltop, preaching. The wind carries his voice far away from me. I only catch snippets of words and ideas. I am ...