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Katlego Tlabela - Blue Magic VI: Study
Located in Capetown, ZA
In Katlego Tlabela’s imagined and familiar paintings of domestic settings, he responds to South Africa’s persisting economic inequality with bolstered visual fantasies of self-determ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Other
Katlego Tlabela - Sundays Are For Lovers V
Located in Capetown, ZA
In Katlego Tlabela’s imagined and familiar paintings of domestic settings, he responds to South Africa’s persisting economic inequality with bolstered visual fantasies of self-determ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
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Tony Gum - Cheese I
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of the artist’s ground-breaking 2016 Milked In Africa series, Tony Gum’s featured portraits negotiate and interrogate the historical and ongoing commodification of Afric...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Other
Tony Gum - Milk Bags I
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of the artist’s ground-breaking 2016 Milked In Africa series, Tony Gum’s featured portraits negotiate and interrogate the historical and ongoing commodification of Afric...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Other
Patrick Bongoy - Desert Flower
Located in Capetown, ZA
In its usual form, rubber is inert and impermeable, absorbent of almost all light and colour. Patrick Bongoy’s studio operates like a factory in reverse, transforming stockpiles of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal
Ayotunde Ojo - Reclining
Located in Capetown, ZA
Ayotunde Ojo’s presented works chronicle intimate, domestic snapshots of the every day. Working largely in the mode of self-portraiture, Ojo renders the body in moments of respite an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint
Luyanda Zindela - Friday Evening
Located in Capetown, ZA
Zindela’s self-representation is both sentimentally personal and political, where Black kinship and being is captured as a form of resistance. “We are gradually refusing to present o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pine
Luyanda Zindela - “The first time I felt at home in this city was when.."
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of Luyanda Zindela’s ongoing series, Abangani bami / Izithombe zami (My friends / Images of me), these new works chronicle ordinary, intimate moments between the artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pine
Usha Seejarim - Lobe
Located in Capetown, ZA
Usha Seejarim works with mundane, everyday objects that resonate with daily household rituals and women’s labour globally, reinterpreting these into sculptural forms. Clothing pegs a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Rich Mnisi - Rhulani (Peace)
Located in Capetown, ZA
Nwa-Mulamula’s Chaise marked fashion designer Rich Mnisi’s breakthrough into collectible furniture. Reworked in concrete for this collection, it is a powerf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Loveseats
Materials
Concrete
Chuma Maweni - Imbizo Dining Table II
Located in Capetown, ZA
An ‘imbizo’ is a forum or meeting called by a traditional Xhosa or Zulu leader, where important matters relating to the community or village are discussed. Maweni’s Imbizo design pieces are a modern-day version; a place for people...
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21st Century and Contemporary African Tables
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Stoneware
Chuma Maweni - Imbizo Ibanjiwe (A Gathering is Held) I
Located in Capetown, ZA
An ‘imbizo’ is a forum or meeting called by a traditional Xhosa or Zulu leader, where important matters relating to the community or village are discussed. Maweni’s Imbizo design pieces are a modern-day version; a place for people...
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21st Century and Contemporary African Dining Room Tables
Materials
Leather, Stoneware
Adam Birch - Helena
Located in Capetown, ZA
Adam Birch’s practice is driven by a deep understanding and respect for South Africa’s unique ecology. Each of his sculptural works has been intuitively cra...
Category
2010s Chairs
Materials
Pine
Dominique Zinkpè - Poésie Humaine
Located in Capetown, ZA
Steeped in the cultural practices of his native Benin, Dominique Zinkpè’s work is imbued with a guiding reverence for tradition and a keen sensitivity to contemporary concerns. The t...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jesse Ede - Transit of Venus
Located in Capetown, ZA
Transit of Venus is a sculptural design piece which formed part of Of Space and Time, Jesse Ede’s most recent solo exhibition with Southern Guild. The monumental body of work was a p...
Category
2010s Tables
Materials
Slate, Aluminum
Justine Mahoney - Majesty
Located in Capetown, ZA
Majesty forms part of Justine Mahoney’s Mage series. The body of work explores the tumult and transformation universally experienced in the period between adolescence and adulthood. ...
Category
2010s Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Porky Hefer - Piranha 1: Nerina
Located in Capetown, ZA
Porky Hefer’s menagerie of sculptural seating pods have become renowned and recognisable forms in the global design landscape. Here, Hefer’s design takes the form of a gargantuan pir...
Category
2010s Children's Furniture
Materials
Steel
Stanislaw Trzebinski - Hollow Promise XI
By Stanislaw Trzebinski
Located in Capetown, ZA
With their luminous patinas, bulbous forms and mouth-like openings, Stanislaw Trzebinski’s Hollow Promise series imagines the strange life-forms that might be found in a post-apocaly...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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