Amita Makan is a descendant of Indian migrants who arrived in South Africa during British colonial rule. Her Gujarati ancestors came from the ‘Mochi’ caste, a caste just above the ‘untouchables’, who were cobblers. She has inherited their ‘cobbler stitch’ and liberated it to weave personal and autobiographical stories ...
Shenaz Mahomed, born in 1992, is a Pretoria based artist who works predominantly in the medium of hand cut paper. She obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2014 and is currently (2018) completing her MA (FA) there. She was the Curator at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery for 4 years ...
Phillip Mabote was born in Qwa-Qwa, Free State, in 1982. Mabote works predominantly in the medium of printmaking, specializing in linocut. He studied Professional Printmaking at Artist Proof Studio (2007 – 2009). As a student, Mabote participated in Sonke Gender Justice Awareness Campaign ...
Lizza Littlewort was born in Cape Town in 1963, where she lives and works. She has a diverse education, with degrees from the University of Cape Town in architecture, fine art and English literature. She relentlessly explores the myriad ways of making marks with oil-paint, working on different surfaces that create unexpected ...
Dale Lawrence’s work as a solo artist and as part of the creative studio Hoick, which he co-founded, has become known for a tendency to marry painstaking application and wry humour. In his two solo exhibitions at SMITH, Look Busy (2016) and Another Helping (2017), and his solo presentation at the FNB JoburgArtFair, Amateur Hour (2018) ...
Azael Langa grew up in an artistic family. He did not follow the path of being an artist until he won his first art competition in grade 6. After his primary school years he went to an art high school and it was there that he realized that he wanted to be an artist ...
Asanda Kupa’s work is grounded by the experiences of those forced to the periphery of ‘The New South Africa’; despite its great re-birth. Born in Molteno, a semi-rural village in the Eastern Cape, in 1981, Kupa’s scenes depict the chaos and energy of life for many of South Africa’s subjugated black population, ...
Lonwabo Kilani was born in Cape Town in 1980. He completed two years of studies in Visual Arts at Community Arts Project (CAP) in 2001. Kilani studied Film (animation) and later digital arts and interactive media. Because he believes in making art for a purpose, Lonwabo is an activist ...
Banele Khoza was born in 1994 in Hlatikulu, a rural area in Swaziland. He moved to South Africa in 2008 to complete his schooling and in 2011 enrolled at the London International School of Fashion (LISOF) in Pretoria. It was during illustration classes that he realized he’d much prefer to be focus on drawing and went on to study Fine Art ...
Alexandra Karakashian was born in 1988, in Johannesburg, South Africa. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2011 she obtained her Bachelor of Art in Fine Art degree the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town ...
