Visual Arts: Recent submissions

  • Domestic Matters 
    Miller, Gwenneth; Miller, Gwenneth (Latuvu Art Gallery and George Museum, 2023-07-13)
    “Domestic matters” consisted of eight works presented on two group exhibitions. The works searched for expression of the often-conflictual context through which familial relationships are articulated. The shaped-format ...
  • Song of the philosopher 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Galerie Latuvu; Rust-en-Vrede Gallery; Trent Gallery, 2023)
    The "Song of the philosopher" research project (2023) entailed 32 artworks and three solo exhibitions: A solo in the Western Cape at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville (11 March - 5 April 2023); a solo at Latuvu Gallery, ...
  • AMAHLATHI APHELILE 
    Filita, Sango (https://issuu.com/arttimes/docs/art_times_october_2022_issuu, 2022-10-08)
    This body of work is inspired by how commemoration addresses some of the changes and developments after democracy in South Africa. My work portrays a visual representation of South African heroes who are now commemorated ...
  • Under the Surface 
    Miller, Gwenneth; Miller, Gwenneth (RK Contemporary, White River and Unisa Art Gallery, 2022)
    The project “Under the surface” consisted of 22 new works in a range of media. The installations were interactions between specific ‘ecologies’ of people and places. I used three group exhibitions as an emergent method of ...
  • NIGERIAN LEG - Covid19 African masks collaborative visual art practice-led/based project 
    Odunayo Orimolade; Nombeko Mpako (Yusuf Grillo Gallery. Yaba, Lagos, 2022-07-10)
    Annotation: NIGERIAN LEG: Covid19 African masks collaborative visual art practice-led/based project This practical project formed part of the “Covid19 African masks collaborative visual art practice-led/based project” ...
  • Dune Whispers 
    Odunayo Orimolade (UNISA Art Gallery, Unisa Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria, 2022-10-08)
    Dune Whispers was a drawing performance employing the shifting nature which both generates and degenerates earth as a navigational space where change is continuous and re-imaginable. The performance engages the ethereality ...
  • Permeate 
    Odunayo Orimolade (Yusuf Grillo Gallery, Yaba, Lagos, 2022-12-10)
    This performance project engages power structures and how are informed by Permeation, resistance, and circumvention. The Limbo of strategizing and negotiation of spaces constructs fabulation on the perception of power, ...
  • Amarhoqololo kaKim 
    Mpako, Nombeko (Norval Foundation gallery in Tokai, Cape Town, 2022-02-09)
    This Series is composed of eight panels of printed tapestries/textiles and further reinterpretation of two of the panels’ subject matter reproducing images that encapsulate the theme of this series, which is self-forgiveness. ...
  • IZANDLA EZIHLE ZABAZALIKAZI 
    Mpako (Durban University of Technology - Art Gallery, Durban KZN, 2022-09-24)
    The exhibition “Izandla Ezihle Zabazalikazi” meaning “beautiful hands of motherhood” was activism for single parenting motherhood presented through actionism artistic discourse. It sought to present the argument that single ...
  • Sithwelenzim Bazalikazi 
    Mpako, Nombeko (Unisa Gallery, 2022-09-24)
    SITHWELENZIMA BAZALIKAZI “Sithwelenzima Bazalikazi series 2022” (we are struggling fellow mothers) is composed of photographs of staged performances of myself and sometimes with other women performing challenging mundane ...
  • Lamaphupha ithini kanti into yawo 2021 (these dreams what is their meaning) 
    Mpako, Nombeko (Unisa Art Gallery, 2021-09-24)
    “Lamaphupha ithini kanti into yawo 2021” series, meaning what is the meaning of these dreams is composed of photographs from performances some manipulated to complete the context and narrative of “surrealism”. Included ...
  • Ndithunuke ndizophola 2021’ installation 
    Mpako, Nombeko (University of South Africa Art Gallery, 2021-09-24)
    Installation “Ndithunuke ndizophola 2021” series. Ndithunuke ndizophola is an elevated 10m x 10m slopping octagon labyrinth with network of paths on which viewers walked through red maze lines to the centre where a stop ...
  • Knowing 
    Orimolade, Odun (2021-10-09)
    This body of work titled “Knowing” explores trajectory of space and action as an intuitive development of reflection and reflexivity. It engages with internal reorientation for external navigation. The space, the work and ...
  • Whistleblowing and Precarious power 
    Maja, Kabelo James Kwame (2021-11-15)
    The artworks Whistleblowing and Precarious power form a body of research work that explores the broader social paradox of ethics in contemporary societies globally, employing the understanding and visual language of soccer. ...
  • Psychosocial 
    MOSAKO, Daniel Rankadi (Glen Carlou Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2022-07-26)
    The three pieces collectively address the universal human challenge of psychosocial behaviour and dilutions as components of people's emotional, psychological, and social well-being worldwide. The pieces were displayed as ...
  • The portrait: a sense of time and place - Unisa staff exhibition, "Uncanny stories" (2021) 
    Opperman, Johann (2021)
    Through my creative processes, I meet the challenge of evoking a sense of place and navigating the unfolding time of faraway countries visited. I am influenced by the richness of the fabrics that I love in these spaces, ...
  • Gills of other creatures 
    Miller, Gwenneth (Unisa Art Gallery, 2021-12-07)
    The exhibition “Gills of other creatures” set out to visually explore the problem of living with death experience in my own struggle to move beyond mourning. The search developed from a previous exhibition, “Enfolding”, ...
  • Isikhuni Sibuya Nomkhwezele 
    Filita, Sango (2021)
    This body of work Isikhuni Sibuya Nomkhwezele, translated as ‘Burning firewood is managed by the one manning the fire’ is triggered by problems emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing some of the socio-political ...
  • A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Compiled upon a New Plan – Unisa Staff Exhibition “Uncanny Stories” (2021) 
    Krajewska, Ania (2021)
    The series of artworks, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Compiled upon a New Plan interrogates Western epistemology’s overreliance on categorization and reacts against framing and hierarchical approach to the world at ...
  • RESILENCE / MENTAL HEALTH 
    MOSAKO, Daniel Rankadi (UNISA ART Gallery, 2021-11-07)
    I used the concept of resilience and mental health as my interpretation of ”Uncanny stories” resulting in three large digital prints and a triptych forming a monumental action drawing. The context of ‘Resilience’ can ...

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