4 local artisans using ancient craft to create modern collectables
Weavers, ceramicists, chandlers – and even a curtain couturière, meet the makers behind the local luxury brands that honour ancient craft in modern ways
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Women Shaping Design: Anja Venter
Meet the multi-talented Anja Venter, an Art-stronaut changing the industry for women one creation at a time
New Banksy works appear in artist’s latest ’spraycation’
A 3-minute IGTV video, entitled ’A Great British Spraycation’, shows the elusive artist embarking on a summer road trip.
Google’s new virtual exhibition reveals a deeper layer of Frida Kahlo’s life and work
Faces of Frida unveils newly digitised paintings and invites users to virtually tour the locations that influenced the celebrated artist's work.
SEE: Goodman & Swinney’s Women Inspired showcase
The Steenberg Tasting Room will be hosting an exhibition of selected works by prominent South African artists Frances Goodman and Ruby Swinney
Women Shaping Design: Mpho Vackier
Mpho Vackier, an engineer turned furniture designer explores the role of culture and cultural representations and visibility in modern societies, to tell contemporary African stories through furniture and product design
Women Shaping Design: Eva Sonaike
London-based Interiors Company Eva Sonaike specialises in luxury home textiles and soft furnishings with a distinctive and vibrant West-African aesthetic.
SEE: Madoda Fani's new collection of carved ceramics
iQweqwe by Madoda Fani is a new ceramics collection and collaboration with BMW
Rising artists John Madu & Ousmane Niang are Figures of Power
In their new Paris based exhibition, Figures of Power, the African artists invite their audience to consider new power dynamics and affirm their own identities
Tayla Parx Just Made Newspaper Boxes Relevant Again
A whole new way to read the room
Inside the Studio Where Artist Kennedy Yanko Creates Her Surreal Sculptures
The St. Louis-born, Brooklyn-based artist recently completed a residency at Miami’s Rubell museum
Jasmine Archie Makes the Best Fake Cakes on the Internet
Welcome to the cake hole
I’m Crying Tears of Joy Over the Revival of Tissue Boxes
Save face with these quirky designs
Here’s Why Michael Harvey’s Deceptively Simple Ceramics Are Turning Heads Everywhere
The ’80s cult classics are taking over Instagram
15 Minutes Marie-Louise Koen
We chat to the South African artist & interior designer about her career, her current exhibition Been Dreaming of the Med and she shares insightful advice for other young creatives
‘Ndoimadzi’—an unstoppable force
Meet the seven young artists for Ndoimadzi exhibition currently showing at the Botho Project Space
Revealed: The Secret History Behind Edvard Munch’s The Scream
A previously unnoticed sentence etched in a top corner of the painting has scholars debating who wrote the words, and why they might’ve done it
SEE: The Investec Cape Town Art Fair Pre-Pandemic
We take you three years back into the Investec Cape Town Art Fair as we await the ninth edition which will return in February 2022