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Mandy Johnston’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

Mandy Johnston wants to burn things to bring back traditions

The Joburg-born artist’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman
Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration

Documenting a vanishing present: Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s ‘Group Show’

Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration

Alex Appolis and a work from A Neo-Arcadian Tale: BLACK Pan in South Africa’s Pastoral Romance, on at the Wits Art Museum. (Photos by Zanele S. Maduma)

Alexander Appolis on space, race and the pastoral imagination

Artist uses nature and cryptic visions in his paintings to highlight South Africa’s racial and spatial history

Fig 3: Detail Still of Lilahloane by Imameleng Masitha. Courtesy o AVA Gallery
Fig 4: Imameleng Masitha. Courtesy of artist

‘Lilahloane’: Death rites live beyond the grave

A new video installation by Imameleng Masitha at the AVA gallery digs into our rituals to mark mortality and the longing for home soil amid moving and migration

Portrait of David

Spotlight on new faces of Nigeria’s art scene

David Otaru is a contemporary Nigerian visual artist canvassing his lived experiences in his upcoming exhibition ‘Face-Me-I-Face-You’

Focused: Award-winning contemporary multimedia visual artist Trevor Stuurman. (HarmonixEnt)

Trevor Stuurman on leaving home to come home

The contemporary visual artist has created through his designs a piece that shows home is a place of belonging

Extreme craft meets art

Johannesburg-based sculptor Kim Lieberman is intensely concerned with interconnectedness – between human beings, time and place, idea and concept.