Occasionally, you come across a curated exhibition so attuned to delivering on its promises, your heart sings. Fiona Rankin-Smith with years of curatorial expertise yields an impeccable reflection on migrancy which informs without being didactic, moves without being maudlin and will touch you very deeply. The magic starts […]
When it comes to shock and horror, religion is a magnificently fruitful reservoir for metaphors ad images, which lend themselves to being fabulously twisted to digress toward sexual and political overtures. Karen von Veh, Professor of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg clearly had a lot of […]
You’ll need sunglasses to fully appreciate what glitter artist Leanne Shakenovsky has done with the idea of a painting by well-known South African painter JH Pierneef of the town of Heidelberg in the former Transvaal. Cast into tones and tints of gold glitter, it’s completely dazzling and Shakenovsky’s […]
Snakes crawling out of the wall might not necessarily be your idea of a beautiful art exhibition, but it will certainly get your attention, and in some of these glimmering, scaly works, you will be horrified, but you won’t want to stop looking at them. In her fourth […]
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