Art Blog

  • Paiting Spirit – Nthabiseng Boledi Kekana

    Series – Dithapelo Tsa Barapedi Cradling a candle and matches, Kekana steps through air thick with Thandiswa Mazwai chanting Thongo Lam. She kneels in a corner of the room, flicks the match aflame, and sets the flame over the candle. The flickering light, steady on the floor, illuminates more than what the eye can see.

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  • Awaken – Lesego Seoketsa

    It is a mighty feat to gather one’s roots, to pull yourself out of firm soil in pursuit of creating work far beyond our consciousness and time.  Lesego Seoketsa’s residency journey is the time-lapse of a blooming garden. Oh, how lush, how beautiful. Seoketsa’s residency begins with her seeking to expand her series ‘Amacici’, a

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  • Annie Trevovah – Playful Brillance

    It’s a late Sunday afternoon, I make my way through Battersea Park in autumn twilight, and a forgiving breeze spurs me on towards rays of gentle sunset. I arrive at Pump House Gallery with the common relief of finding something unfamiliar. Annie and two other visitors stand adjacent to the door. I am caught in

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  • Harrison Tipping’s Galvanising Drive

    Harrison Tipping is the living emission of radioactive focus, and I am caught in its radius.  His energy permeates my phone’s screen ionising atoms along the way and transforming all matter into believers. It takes an immense amount of courage to pursue a career most have failed in, to know that you are one of the

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  • Giggs Kgole and African Consciousness

    It is not entirely incorrect to believe that you are the centre of the universe. The universe is constantly expanding in every direction at an equal rate…

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  • Upon Linen We Gather – Lulama Wolf

    The African vernacular experience is a tapestry of language and its dialects, familial cultural norms and their tribal nuances, the pursuit of greatness anchored in the gravitas of communal duty. It is on this tapestry of intersectional culture, in a west London gallery that my social axis is tilted. The door is opened by a

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  • Late 20.

    Late 20.

    What do we do with the unbuild dreams, and the roofless careers? How do we admit, ’This is not how I thought it would be’? But even more frightening, how do we make new dreams at our big age?

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