A charismatic performer with inimitable improv chops, Kato Change flirts with virtuosity. The guitarist’s beaming onstage persona is paired with a nimble command of his instrument. Kato continually draws from a heritage of jazz legends as well as flamenco, rhythm and blues and rock genres, creating sounds that are both familiar and utterly singular. Kato […]
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Nana Oforiatta – Ayim’s work deals predominantly with the creation and hierarchy of narratives. Like many creatives from Africa and its diaspora, she believes that its not enough to write, but that it is also necessary to create the structures and discourse within which our work is received. To this end she set up a
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Liza Grobler (b. 1974) lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work explores the tangible qualities of materials and the connections between people, artworks and the world around us; her installations create dialogues with the spaces in which they are displayed. The viewer is encouraged to travel with her into an imaginary world where fact
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Following artistic study tours to over 15 countries around the world, Collin Sekajugo returned to Rwanda in early 2007 with a mission to “USE ART TO CHANGE LIVES.” Over the last 6 years, these words have become more than a credo for the self-taught artist, who dedicated himself to founding and directing Ivuka Arts, the
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Born in Cape Town, 1989, Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. He holds a BA Fine Arts degree from Rhodes University and an MFA in Fine Arts degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. In 2012 Knoetze featured as one of Art South Africa magazine’s ‘Bright Young Things’ and was recently
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Tamrat is a prolific visual artist from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His art focuses on indigenous thoughts, cultures and rituals. By paying attention to traditions that surround him, he feeds his innate need to connect these spirits and knowledge with other counter cultures in harmony. He recently became attracted to the study of indigenous knowledge and
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Born 1985 in Zimbabwe, Richard is a full time professional painter who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied under the mentorship of renowned painter Helen Lieros and Greg Shaw at Gallery Delta in Harare. Known for his original modernist paintings full of social commentary on various issue in Africa, he has participated in various major
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Wallen Mapondera is a full time artist who lives and works in Zimbabwe, he have exhibited his work in some parts of Europe and America and has collections in Spain and Germany. Wallen aims, through socio-political symbolism of animals and their disposition, to explore human form of power structures in which power rests with a
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Masande Ntshanga is the winner of the 2013 pen International New Voices Award. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon
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