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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

Showcase: Zanele Kumalo will take part in Design Week South Africa, which will be on in Joburg and Cape Town

Diary: Design Week South Africa kicks off, African Women artists shine in London, look out for the inaugural Hazendal Festival

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Violence: #SayHer1019 by Kilmany-Jo Liversage emphasises sorry by Penny Siopis depicts victims’ feeling of shame that often accompanies abuse.

Art of activism: 16 artists against gender violence

Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

Albert Ibokwe Khoza as Credo Mutwa in The Eye of Rre Mutwa, a Shmerah Passchier film screening as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City film programme.
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Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days

Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at

Penny Siopsis, Act I Scene II

Strauss & Co’s November sale explores South African art’s love affair with Paris

‘Paris was a beacon for countless South African artists’

In the pink: The Icing Pink Ether includes the self-portrait A Disruption in Perception

Toich turns to the old masters

The artist, who draws on varied inspirations from baking to Irma Stern, is now studying in Florence

Open studio: Public participation is a major element of Penny Siopis’s project at the Maitland Institute in Cape Town with visitors able to see the artist’s process in creating the large-scale works.

Ungluing a window on Siopis’s mind

By opening the doors on her process, the artist is inviting the public to be an active part of her work

Penny Siopis does it time and again

After 30 years, Penny Siopis’s work still takes chances with materials, inventing images and, in the process, negotiating happenstance.

Seen is believing in the art world

Seen is believing in the art world

A number of young South African artists, including the prodigy Nicholas Hlobo, are making waves in the international art world.