Absa Champagne Festival 2019 Absa Foreward

Celebrating achievements is a time-honoured tradition that recognises commitment and excellence and what better way to do so than to raise a glass of champagne. All over the world, champagne has become the drink of choice to celebrate success, show appreciation and so much more. Which is why we have invested into the Absa Champagne Festival, a celebration of this iconic drink with more than 40 French champagnes under one roof.

For the past 18 years Absa has sponsored this prestigious event and it remains the only one of its kind in . It’s a memorable experience for all those who attend, and we are looking forward to yet another equally memorable occasion with you, this year. Join us, and sip champagne as you enjoy a selection of high-end artistic works, wall hangings and commissioned sculptures from established and emerging artists.

We invite you to join us as we network, engage and build relationships in an atmosphere of exclusivity and elegance.

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Absa Champagne Festival Adriaan Diedericks

Biography

Adriaan Diedericks’ (b. 1990, ) is a South African sculptor based in Strand, Cape Town. He grew up in rural Piketberg and his upbringing there has had a great impact on his work. After graduating with a Degree in Fine Art from Stellenbosch University in 2012, he did an apprenticeship with Lionel Smit from 2013 until the end of 2014.

Diedericks was a SASOL New Signatures Finalist in 2010 and 2014 and a PPC YCSA Finalist in 2013 where PPC bought his work for their private collection. His work has been acquired over the past four years by people such as Christo Wiese (Forbes #1,SA), Keith Kirsten (international Horticulturist) and Ranjit Singh (Forbes #87-2013) as well as places such as Cavalli Stud Farm and NAC VIP Lounge at Lanseria Airport in to name a few. He has placed more than four large public sculptures in Hermanus, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

He also has work in private collections around the world - New York, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Holland, Los Angeles, Australia, Las Vegas, Italy, Belgium, Germany, London, Canada, South Africa and Barbados.

Artist Statement

The body as a vessel for power, glory and inevitable humiliation is a key concept within my work - a thought which binds my reflections on masculinity and heraldic histories. I sculpt with wax, clay and rotten wood, which I then cast into resin or bronze. This process recreates and mimics the original, thus putting my viewer under a false pretence and allowing them to question the reality.

Contemplation Bronze - Edition of 12 1100 x 800 x 800 mm 2017 R 350 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Asanda Kupa

Biography

Asanda Kupa lives and works in Johannesburg, with his studio located at the renown Bag Factory. Frequent visits to his childhood home, in the Eastern Cape, keep Asanda routed in his rural up- bringing and connected to a part of our country which is often neglected.

Asanda holds an NDip in Fine Art from Walter Sisulu University and a BTech degree from Tshwane University of Technology. Between 2009 and 2011, he resurrected the Molteno Museum. He was the recipient of both the Ann Bryant Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010, and the Reinhold Cassirer Award in 2013. His work sits in a number of important South African collections, including The Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art and Nando’s.

Kupa’s artistic journey was forged in the Eastern Cape; a place where many of South Africa’s mineworkers originate form. This industry has influenced the voice of Asanda’s works through his exploration of the power struggles within a hierarchical society, the meaning of South Africa’s new found freedom and the representation of dusty derelict landscapes.

Artist Statement

Asanda Kupa’s work is grounded by the experiences of those forced to the periphery of ‘the New South Africa’; despite its great re-birth. Born in Molteno – a semi-rural village in South Africa’s poorest province, the Eastern Cape – Kupa’s scenes depict the chaos and energy of life for many of South Africa’s subjugated black population, a life that is defined by struggle and by lack of access to basic resources.

Kupa is concerned with how the new political regime has failed its people – the very people who Tick Tock, Puff Puff brought it to power through their own sacrifice – whilst also celebrating the self-determining spirit Charcoal and Pastel on Paper that marks a long history of civic action. Protest, spurred by grass-roots community frustration, is the 2100 x 1500 mm central theme of his work. His series of striking crowd scenes, inspired by the Marikana mine-worker 2019 massacre of 2012, shows militant action not only as an expression of fury, but also a place of refuge R 42 000,00 and hope in post-apartheid South Africa. Raw, incisive and urgent, Kupa’s work captures an important period in South Africa’s political history, as he reflects on the breadth and depth of economies of hope, hopelessness and popular protest.

Absa Champagne Festival Diana Hyslop

Biography

Diana Hyslop lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. In her mid twenties she worked for Marvel Comics in London. On her return to South Africa Hyslop joined the film industry working on feature and documentary films. In the late eighties she studied painting at Bill Ainslie’s now legendary Johannesburg Art Foundation.

In the nineties she spent a year at the Santa Monica Fine Arts Studios in California before returning to Johannesburg where she spent time between filming and painting.

It was in 1998 that Hyslop committed to full time painting after having her first solo show at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town.

In 2002 she joined the Fordsburg Artists Studios (aka the Bag Factory Studios) as a permanent tenant artist. Largely informed by comics and film, Hyslop’s work explores magical realism and a universe of possibilities in which unexpected combinations are viable, all co-exist, and where everything can happen at once. She is interested in the duality of existence, a solitary/social phenomenon though which an eminent encounter can sometimes determine our pathways. And go beyond it.

Hyslop has exhibited locally and abroad, and has her work in numerous collections in South Africa and has participated in international art workshops in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Uruguay.

Artist Statement

I am interested in the quirkiness of the human condition, and reflect that in my work by juxtaposing images that don’t always relate to each other, in order to create a different meaning.

My work is emotionally and intuitively inspired. One of the most common themes I use revolves around issues of security and insecurity, themes that work on both a political and a personal level. I use a lot of animal images in my work because they evoke a natural empathy, and by using specific He do I Feel When I Pass You By animal images, different experiences can be illuminated in a more creative way. Oil on Canvas 1200 x 1500 mm Painting is a process that frees me to express parts of myself that I have difficulty articulating. It is a 2015 passion that transports me into another realm, in which I am able to explore different realities. I think R 80 000,00 most of all it is a search for an inner freedom and vastness that I try to find in my mind.

Absa Champagne Festival Heidi Fourie

Biography

I was born n 1990 in Pretoria, South Africa. I am a full time artist, mainly working in oil. I completed The Rocks Felt Cold Under Our Feet my BA Fine Arts with distinction (cum laude) in 2012 at the University of Pretoria, specialising in Oil on Board painting, where I received the Bettie Cilliers Barnard bursary for Fine Arts. I regularly participate in 915 x 1830 mm exhibitions in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town. I had my first solo exhibition, Islands, in 2015 at 2019 Lizamore & Associates Gallery in Johannesburg under the mentorship of Frikkie Eksteen, my second R 26 600,00 solo exhibition, Borrowed Scenery in August 2016 at Salon91 Gallery and my third solo exhibition, Masses, at fried Contemporary in July 2017 at Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. My next solo exhibition, Lilac Chaser, will take place at Salon 91 in Cape Town on the 24th of October 2018.

A Harmony Discoverable Artist Statement Watercolor on Fabriano 700 x 400 mm I am curious to uncover the countless mark-making and representational possibilities of pigment, 2019 binder and solvent solutions and applications. To me, painterly marks not only make up subjects R 9 430,00 but are subjects in themselves. I consider the paint a participant in the creative process as I thin oil paint down to a very liquid consistency to allow it to flow freely across a very slippery surface within a determined framework set by the reference material. The paintings take on an otherworldly atmosphere, and become new places, yet maintain an uncanny familiarity.

Shimmering Steps and Shimmering Forest form part of a series based on explorations via Google Street view. I specifically looked for glimpses of greenery within urban environments and sought to capture moments of transitions from one spot to another. Scenery distorts to create lines, waves and obscurities which to me evoke smears and strokes made by paint. I Wonder If They Are Always This Dark... Oh They’re Jewels Oil on Board 915 x 915 mm 2019 R 19 500,00

Absa Champagne Festival Land II Sugarcane Cutter Clothing, Helena Hugo Thread and Pangas 1300 x 1400 mm 2019 Biography R 90 000,00

Helena Hugo has been a full time artist since graduating from the University of Pretoria in 1996, majoring in painting. She is mostly known for her highly finished pastel portraits of South African labourers. Recently she has started to explore the world photography and of fibre arts using as her medium re-appropriated clothing previously worn and owned by South African workers. Through these mediums she now investigates the universal human condition and the cycle of birth, death and resurrection. She has exhibited her work countrywide, in London, Holland, France, America and China. Artworks have been bought by corporate collectors like Standard Chartered Bank, London, The University of Johannesburg, The Johannesburg Eye Hospital, Vulisango Holdings, The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, Ukwazi Mining Industry Consultants, UNISA, Blend Property Group, War Museum of the Boer Republics, Sunningdale Hospital, Pretoria Art Museum, William Humphreys Gallery, The National Museum of China, Absa Bank as well as private collectors around the world. Land III Sugarcane Cutter Clothing, Thread and Pangas Artist Statement 1300 x 1400 mm 2019 The objects photographed in Shiny Artifact Of The Past – Royal Personage were made from re- used R 90 000,00 sugarcane cutter’s clothing. The artist’s interest in previously owned clothing derives from clothing having such a strong personal bond with an individual. Due to its nearness to the wearer’s body, the clothes become more than just a personal belonging, but rather an accompanying substance, which takes part in the wearer’s routine and body movement. It shares in the life of the wearer. Using previously owned clothing in an artwork, as a medium, has the effect of amplifying the ability of that artwork to become a more direct, true and tangible representation of the individual to whom it once belonged, more so than a realistic portrait of the same person.

Land IV Sugarcane Cutter Clothing, Thread and Pangas 1300 x 1400 mm 2019 R 90 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Jaco van Schalkwyk

Biography

His frequent travels abroad take him to some of the world’s great art museums and international exhibitions. HIs Things Are Still Here I This has given him a world-view on historical and contemporary art. In 2008 he attended an artist’s residency, Oil on Belgian Linen hosted by the New York Art Students’ League in the USA. He has also participated in numerous exhibitions both 300 x 300 mm here and abroad and is represented in several collections: The Reserve Bank of South Africa, Barclays bank, 2017 RMB, the University of Pretoria, the University of Johannesburg and the Ellerman Collection. R 22 000,00

The Barnard Gallery in Cape Town held four successful exhibitions for the artist in recent years;”Just a matter of Time” in 2012 , “I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things” in 2013, “Eden” in 2015 and “-arium” in 2017. The Barnard Gallery also presented the artist’s solo project “Arcadia” at the 2016 FNB Jo’burg Art Fair. Recently the gallery also showed the artist’s solo project “ Nemora” at the Volta Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland.

Van Schalkwyk was awarded the Sylt: Kunst Raum artist residency at the 2013 Absa L’Atelier Competition. He attended the Sylt Artist Residency in 2014, where he found inspiration for his solo exhibition “Eden”that was also shown at The ABSA Gallery in 2015. The University of Johannesburg selected the artist in 2015 to attend the 6th International Beijing Biennale in China where his work formed part of the South African Group exhibition “ 20 – Art in the time of Democracy”.

Artist Statement

Jaco van Schalkwyk’s ever-evolving exploration of the photorealist technique may be seen to indicate a preoccupation with illusionism – a constant attempt to seamlessly capture reality in paint, to achieve perfection in surface, to master the representation of space and light. But this painterly hyperrealism points to an investigation which functions beyond illusionism, one fascinated with and attuned to the processes of representation itself.

Central to –arium is van Schalkwyk’s contemporary play on the concept of the cabinet of curiosities. The cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer as it emerged in Renaissance Europe, a predecessor of our modern practices of collecting and cataloguing, aimed to create a microcosm of the world in its presentation of a vast array of collected objects and specimens from foreign cultures and locales. In –ar- ium, van Schalkwyk seeks to recreate and restage this practice – and the questions of voyeurism, power, fetishization and objecti cation implied within it – through the lens of our contemporary modes of engagement with the other and the exotic. Here, van Schalkwyk’s positions the ubiquitous smart phone as a modern day, digital cabinet of curiosities. Paying speci c mind to the role smart phones have come to play in tourism and encounters with the “exotic”, the artist explores the way these devices function as personal archives and representational tools, in the way they allow us to codify, collect and categorize experience.The glass screen of the smart phone recalls the paradoxical allure of museum cases and vitrines, simultaneously revealing and preserving the captured experience while rendering it inaccessible. HIs Things Are Still Here II Oil on Belgian Linen Jaco van Schalkwyk was born in 1981 in Benoni, South Africa. He grew up in the faith home, Jatniël: the 300 x 180 mm headquarters of the Latter Rain Mission International. He was educated at Brandwag Hoërskool and holds a BA 2017 degree in Historical studies at UNISA. The artist currently resides in Randburg. R 20 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Jenna Burchell

Biography

Jenna Burchell is an award winning South African artist. In her practice, Burchell is driven to find ways to preserve the fragile and ephemeral nature of memory and experience. Often this involves fusing the digital with the natural world in order to create vessels, archives and libraries where in the historical is subverted with narratives from the periphery. Burchell’s process allows function and relational aesthetics to direct the physical formation of her work. This often results in sculptural sound objects and large-scale interactive environments in which the audience must be present. People, communities and places are rooted in the essence of her practice.

Burchell (born 1985) has exhibited at various national and international galleries, museums and institutions. Her works have been featured as special projects at select art fairs including: The Art15 (London), and the FNB Joburg Art Fair (South Africa). She was the recipient of the Thami Mnyele Fine Art Award (2011) and has been a resident artist at sculpture parks such as the YSP and Nirox. Her traveling solo project titled Homing was featured on the main programme at the National Arts Festival, Makhanda (2014). Burchell has recently completed a series of permanent outdoor sound installations that form part of her international project titled Songsmith, resident at the Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa (2018).

Artist Statement

Songsmith (Fragile Homes) is an ongoing collection of bones and remains that Burchell encounters while walking across landscapes such as the Cradle of Humankind and The Great Karoo. Burchell nds herself drawn to these vessels that once contained life; drawn to the visible trauma of the bone. Her delicate and ritual manner of embedding a songsmith into these fractures transforms the remains into contemplative memorials. Their song, comes from Burchell’s palette of sound creation that relates to ‘echo of land’ in her work. She uses it here, as an ode to land’s delicate entanglement with life and death.

Tortoise Shell was found while in residency at Nirox during the creation of Songsmith (Cradle of Humankind). The Angulate Tortoise is native to Southern Africa. Although not endangered it is on a Tortoise Shell - Songsmith (Fragile Homes) collection CITES restriction list for importing and exporting along side Whale Bone and Ivory. In respect of this, Marble dust, M1, kiaat, brass electroplating, speaker, circuit Edition 2 of 4 the artwork is made of replica bone that the artist sculpted. 410 x 410 x 400 mm 2019 R 96 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Lehlogonolo Mashaba

Biography

Lehlogonolo Mashaba was born in Kwa-Thema, Johannesburg, in 1983.He began his art education at Transfer III the Funda Center in 2003. He later enrolled at the Artist Proof Studios where he obtained a certificate in Mixed Medium design and printmaking in 2004. 1100 x 600 mm 2019 In addition to creating his own work, Mashaba is a former collaborative printer specializing in intaglio, R 48 000,00 relief, monotype and silkscreen at Artist Proof Studio. In this post, he assisted in printing works for established artists, such as Marcus Neustetter and Sandile Goje. Mashaba has participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Africa, France, and United States of America. His work has been part of the Artists Proof Studios booth at the Johannesburg Art Fair since its inception in 2008. Mashaba has been involved in a number of art residencies, which include the Rendezvous Art Project in France and the Artists Image Resource in America. He was invited in 2008 by the David Krut Workshop and Art Bank to participate in a printmaking workshop with five other artists, including Vincent Baloyi.

Mashaba’s public artwork includes a painting which he did for Pick n Pay at Maponya Mall, Soweto. This painting was later enlarged and placed on a billboard in the streets of Soweto. Mashaba was the winner of the Standard Bank Grahamstowm Festival’s Picasso in Africa Mural Competition in 2006. Departure I Mixed Medium 1080 x 580 mm Artist Statement 2019 R 48 000,00 Lehlogonolo Mashaba’s work is centered on text. One of the running motifs in Mashaba’s work is his continuous use of cell phone texts. He uses texts from people’s text (sms) messages. “I have always felt learning has been laboursome and slow process to grasp on hence I use text to construct/deconstruct my figures(myself). In that case I combine different information and words from different texts source most especially the Bible as it is to me the ultimate source of knowledge yet the most ambiguous.

I swop around the body and text, having text on the body and using text to create bodies\figures”. Mashaba not only draws from his personal archive, he also draws influence from the media by extracting texts from newspaper articles. My artwork plays on the tools of communication merging imagery and text. The interest in theology, technology, books/reading, and Biology set a base for my art making process. He acknowledges that, “We as human beings are a product of what we eat (food/words) “ His work concentrates on the indeterminate. In life you cannot really define things completely. By using as many lines as possible while encrypting text in the mix, the work becomes heavily blurred The more Transfer II layered the text, the more incomprehensive it is. This is reminiscent of the fact that we can’t really Mixed Medium establish the original conception of human kind, except if we read about it. In this context that is where 1100 x 600 mm the noise comes in. “With the Origins artworks I attempted to metaphorically capture that process in 2019 words and motion” by metaphorically capturing the natural selection (evolution) process. With the Noise R 48 000,00 series he attempts to show strength of small structures through laboursome drawing process.

Absa Champagne Festival A Story in a Slice Raw Silk Imbedded in Tree Resin and Mandy Coppes Martin Plexiglass 940 x 940 mm 2019 Biography R 36 000,00

Coppes-Martin studied Photography at the Vaal Triangle Technikon and began a diploma in Fine Art in 1993 at the former Technikon Witwatersrand (now the University of Johannesburg). In 2004 she completed het Masters Degree in Fine Art (cum laude). The artist has been a programme manager for several initiatives linked to the Phumani Paper Project, (a poverty alleviation programme based at the University of Johannesburg), namely the UNESCO “Artists in Development Programme, The UJ Archival Paper and Collaborative Mill, the MAPPP Seta Learnership Programme as well as creative direction in paper and pulp for the commercial design market. In 2012 Coppes-Martin became a full time artist producing work in paper and silk. Her works “Trembling Giant” and “Virgin Pulp” were awarded the runner-up prize in the 2012 Sasol New Signatures competition. These 2 works are currently housed in the Sasol collection. She has exhibited in numerous group shows in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, as well as in Belgium and the Philippines.

Artist Statement

“I am greatly informed by the physical world and use mostly natural materials such as paper, hemp and silk as a medium of expression. These fibres are malleable and easily transform into objects or drawings, but they are also steeped in history and significance. I am interested in the physical connection to the material, the subject matter I am working with and the theoretical association with the image and the material.

Most of my work is thin or ethereal in nature and it allows me to look through and past the image as it floats. The transparency of the work, and the shadows that fall from the images complete and solidify the relationship that exists between the work, its environment and myself.

The drawings in silk are typically of the human form and our connection with the physical world. The very nature of the silk worm in many ways is similar to the human condition. Silk has been a revered fibre for centuries and has been smuggled, kept a secret and stolen. It is spun from an insect that purges and feeds for days in order to produce something that will protect itself only for a few days so that it can be allowed to grow into something that has no eyes nor mouth and that can neither drink nor eat. It continues to mate, lay eggs and pass away. What is left is something beautiful but rather useless in terms of its natural surroundings.” Vulnerable Energy Handmade Sisal Paper and Japanese Kozo Paper Raw Silk on Canvas and Tree Resin 590 x 590 x 130 mm 1000 x 17500 mm 2016 2018 R 27 000,00 R 54 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Cleansing Under Your Watch Oil on Canvas Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi 1200 x 900 mm 2019 R 75 000,00 Biography

A mostly self-taught painter, Ngqinambi studied at the Community Arts Project in Cape Town from 2000 to 2001. The artist has participated in various exhibitions both locally and abroad and is the recipient of a number of international residency fellowship awards including a Thami-Mnyele residency in Amsterdam. In 2012 he was selected to represent South Africa at the Dakar Biennale where he was the winner of the Foundation Blachere Award and subsequently completed a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. In 2014 Ngqinambi’s work was included in The People Shall Share in the Country’s Wealth at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. The exhibition was curated by Meghna Singh to coincide with the screening of the film, Miners Shot Down; a documentary by Rahad Desai dealing with the 2012 Marikana Massacre. Hide Out Oil on Canvas 1420 x 1020 mm 2019 Artist Statement R 75 000,00

Both political and personal, critical and introspective, the work of Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi engages with social contexts and histories in subtle and unusual ways. His paintings seem to always be in motion, the figures captured within them always moving, departed but not yet arrived, running and tumbling in a vast no man’s land between past and present, dream and reality. As noted by Fay Jackson of Art South Africa, “Ngqinambi successfully makes political comment without propaganda, and conjures spectacle without being histrionic” drawing upon the traditions of both 19th century European Romanticism and 20th century Soviet art to create a style entirely his own, one that resists easy categorization. His love of theatre and film is apparent in the strong sense of narrative evident in his paintings, and the dramatas incurred by his sweeping, broiling skies, fevered brushstrokes and striking use of colour. Over My Dead Body Oil on Canvas 1500 x 2000 mm 2019 R 92 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Nkhensani Rihlampfu

Biography

Nkhensani Rihlampfu is a South African based multidisciplinary artist, born in the country’s northern Astro Evangelist province of Limpopo. Nkhensani studied fne arts at the the Tshwane University of Technology in Woven Calico Rope, Leather and Wood Pretoria, where he went on to obtained a B-Tech in Fine Arts. 2300 x 1300 x 500 mm 2019 Over the past few years Nkhensani has been involved in several art programmes. He has produced R 140 000,00 many commissioned pieces including a unique sculpture created from shredded South African notes for the South African Reserve Bank and a painting for Constitutional Hill, which is the seat of South Africa’s apex Constitutional Court. His art has been featured in a number of group and curated exhibitions in the Absa Gallery, Grahamstown Arts Festival, Pretoria Art Museum, RMB Turbine Art Fair and the FNB Joburg Art Fair, to name a few. In addition to Rihlampfu’s continuously growing reputation within the industry, his works have been acquired by many prominent private and corporate art collections.

Nkhensani has recently completed his frst solo exhibition, where he transported the audience through a margin of breadth between the world we perceive and the truth that remains unseen. Rihlampfu has worked at Workhorse Bronze Foundry, where they were involved in casting multiple artist’s sculptures including William Kentridge’s bronze pieces. In addition to this Nkhensani has also worked with other prominent South African artists such as Nandipha Mntambo, Nelson Makamo and Louis Olivier.

Nkhensani is currently working with and is represented by M Studio Community.

Artist Statement

Nkhensani Rihlampfu introduces us to his universe of woven realities; a space in which actuality is entwined with the idealistic and notional ideas birthed by our society. Nkhensani aims to expose the manipulation of communication through gesture and assumption. By interacting with Nkhensani’s fantastical fgures we are immersed in a reality founded on our perception of the world. The fgures coax us to the belief of movement and mass, where their is none. We “feel” the pressure and the weight of non existent objects. The work exists in the overlapping margin between truth and ideology; it is in this space that we discover our identity and acknowledge the importance of communication. We are presented with familiar structures and recognisable characteristics, but never defnitive Land Intercessor facts. This orchestration by Nkhensani encourages us to search for a new path to develop sturdy Bronze - Edition of 3 plus 1 a/p foundations for our communal evolution. 1700 x 1600 x 600 mm 2019 R 650 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Patrick Seruwu

Biography

Patrick Seruwu, is a Johannesburg based, self taught visual artist. Born in Uganda, when Image I he dropped out of school he went into business. Its during this time while in SA that he Acrylic on Canvas 1270 x 1470 mm met his business partner Benon Lutaaya, who is at the same time an artist that his passion 2019 for drawing was reawakened. He felt inspired and motivated to work on developing his R 22 000,00 artistic technical skills. Mentored by artist Benon, Patrick now spends his time drawing and painting using his girlfriend as a study reference.

Artist Statement

My work speaks of cultural issues relating to the marital abuse experienced by most African women; the majority of which suffer in silence. Their relationships with their spouses are often one- sided and oppressive. Even in the between periods of peace and affection the shadows loom on the outskirts of their interactions. These shadows are fraught with the lingering subtle or unsubtle tactics of control that her husband uses to get his own way. It does not matter how humbly or submissively a wife voices her requests, her voice is rarely heard by her partner. The man has all the power and the deaf ear.

Image II Acrylic on Canvas 950 x 870 mm 2019 R 16 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Ramarutha Makoba

Biography

Ramarutha Makoba was born in Soweto in 1984 and brought up in Dieploof Zone 3 & 4. When he was Family in Soweto Series 13 he attended art classes at a local community centre when Chris Molefe had a profound influence Mixed Media on Paper on his work. He later attended workshops at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well as, competing 1080 x 1460 mm two years course as FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists). He joined the Artist Proof Studio in 2019 2004 and received certificates of excellence in his first and second years and was selected to further R 41 000,00 his printmaking, he completed the 3rd year professional programme in 2007. He has done artwork for Nandos, he was a finalist at Black Like Us and got position 7. He was published in the following community papers, Randburg Sun 2004, Gazzete 2004, City Pulse and The Star newspaper in April 2011 and Daily Sun May 2011. He has his artworks in most galleries (ABSA Gallery, Melrose Gallery, David Kruit Gallery and others). He is also teaching at Artist proof Studio and working on these out ridge program Noah’s Arch in Soweto. He is also teaching at Little Artists School Project at Berea Barnato High School. He had his first solo exhibition in 2011 April.

Artist Statement

The work that I am producing focuses on families, especially the children. To open a child’s eyes is to influence the future. My trees are a metaphor for families within different communities. The tree represents life, knowledge, success and productivity. Communities use trees for shades and some members solve social issues or conflicts under trees. I want my artworks to inspire people, for them to relate and change the world.

Places to Go Love Between Us Mixed Media on Paper Mixed Media on Paper 1080 x 1520 mm 1520 x 1120 mm 2019 2019 R 41 000,00 R 41 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Ronel de Jager

Biography

Ronél de Jager (b.1985, Johannesburg, South Africa) studied BTech Fine Arts at Tshwane University of speak to a sense of aloneness/isolation. It is this very mediation between photography to paint where Technology, where she obtained distinctions in Painting and Printmaking in her final year (2006). The de Jager actively teleports her viewer, showing her constant appreciation for our innate connectedness artist’s work has featured in a number of curated exhibitions, including amongst others Interrupted with the world around us. (UJ Gallery, 2013); No Place Like Now (Lovell Gallery, 2013); Point of Departure (Lizamore & Assoc. Gallery, 2014); Stellar (Salon91, 2015); For What It’s Worth (No End Contemporary, 2016); Spaces Broeigrond: Fertile Ground for Golden Regrets is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Ronél de Jager, Between Maps (ABSA Gallery, KKNK Festival, 2016); The Sacred & Profane (Lizamore & Assoc Gallery, inspired by the Karoo landscape, geology, infrared photographic process and cosmology. 2017); Dead and Dreaming: Still life (Priest Gallery, 2017); MYOPIA a two-woman exhibition with artist In this series of works, the artist constructs fictionalised landscapes which oscillate between the Mandy Coppes-Martin (Lizamore & Associates, 2017) and more recently New Romantics curated by familiar and the alien; De Jager constructs artifacts of paintings, light- boxes, glass orbs with brass Mary Corrigall (Barnard Gallery, 2018) and copper electroplated flora and time-lapse film gathered from previous expeditions in the Karoo. These artifacts present fertile landscapes with an energy potential, at the cusp of its revelation; they Her work was presented at the at the Cape Town Art Fair (2015 & 2017) – as well as the Turbine Art incubate our imagined future, thoughts and potential regrets. Beginning as a photographic process Fair in 2013 to 2018 – with An Interlude in 2014 as a featured solo project. She has been a regular of experimentation, De Jager, uses infrared photography to investigate the characteristics of the finalist in national art competitions such as Absa L’Atelier Art Awards (2008, 2013 and 2015), Sasol landscape and found flora. These flora represent the biota of a specific landscape, period and people. New Signatures (in 2007, 2008 and 2010) and Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards (in 2006 to 2011). These are then re-interrogated in her studio as she translates this into paintings and multimedia De Jager’s works are included in a number of private collections, locally and internationally, as well works. These images are painted as part of a meditative process of ‘searching’, contemplating these as in the corporate art collections of First Rand, Hollard, Rand Merchant Rank, Sasol, Telkom, Spier, notions of latent landscapes. Nando’s International & the permanent collection of the South African National Library.

De Jager describes her works as evolving from traces of light which become fragments of a greater whole – chance encounters that either resonate and linger, or are seen and forgotten. This is further investigated in Broeigrond; exploring how energy, light and metamorphosis are embedded in nature and what it may tell us about our existence and future. The artist currently resides and works from her studio in Parkview, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Artist Statement

De Jager’s work consider ways of looking. The artist experiments with visual experiences by placing that which we don’t often consider on her canvas. Embedded with historical traces of earth’s evolution, she distils these thoughts into paintings. The artist visually constructs imagery through photographic practices and techniques that she then masterfully replicates during a meditative painting process. “I’m Continuously fascinated with time on a grand scale, through ideas of evolution of the world around us, geological time and the antiquity of the earth. But I also want these histories to speak of a contemporary moment and show the response from the earth to our presence.” De Jager’s sensitivity to time, her ability to slow it down through the painting process but also halt it as you stand in front of her work is transcendental. Devoid of human inhabitants, the landscapes often

Absa Champagne Festival Ronel de Jager

Aeon IV Aeon XI Aeon XII Aeon XIII Oil and Mixed Media on Board Oil and Mixed Media on Board Oil and Mixed Media on Board Oil and Mixed Media on Board 407 x 600 mm 407 x 600 mm 407 x 600 mm 407 x 600 mm 2017 2017 2017 2017 R 7 500,00 R 7 500,00 R 7 500,00 R 7 500,00

Adamah II CO2 II Oxidized Copper Electroplated Brass Electroplated Found Karoo Flora on Found Karoo Flora Engraved Board and Graphite 200 Diameter x 140 mm 230 Diameter x 100 mm 2017 2017 R 5 950,00 R 4 780,00

Absa Champagne Festival Ronel de Jager

Citizens of Glass VI & VIII Copper Elecroplated Found Karoo Flora and Wire in Hanging Glass Blown Sphere 450 x 270 mm and 550 x 350 mm 2017 R 39 900,00 and R 36 900,00

A Promise The Same Wind Sang Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas 1300 x 900 mm 1300 x 900 mm 2018 2018 R 29 000,00 R 29 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Muslims Are Invasive - Valhalla Hand Cut Paper on Hahnemuhle Shenaz Mahomed 265 x 390 mm 2016 R 4 800,00 Biography

Shenaz Mahomed (b. 1992) is a Pretoria based artist who works predominantly in the medium of hand-papercut. She has obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 2014 and is currently a MA (FA) student there as well as the Curator at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery. Mahomed has participated in a number of group exhibitions and prestigious art competitions in South Africa. Mahomed has been awarded as the winner of the 2016 Mentorship Award with the Bag Factory and has had works exhibited with them at the 2016 FNB Joburg Art Fair. She is also an associated artist with the Dead Bunny Society and Found Collective. Shenaz successfully curated her first group show at Fried Contemporary titled ‘Young Collectors’ in 2015.

Artist Statement Muslims Are Invasive - Laudium Mahomed’s visual artistic practice consists mainly of combining contrasting mediums in an Hand Cut Paper on Hahnemuhle experimental manner. Conceptually, she aims to take a rather different turn from re-visioning to 265 x 390 mm now re-mystifying Islamic aesthetics, commenting on the representation of Islam as well as her daily 2016 experience of what it means to be a female Muslim in South Africa. R 4 800,00

Muslims Are Invasive - Erasmia Hand Cut Paper on Hahnemuhle 265 x 390 mm 2016 R 4 800,00

Absa Champagne Festival Shenaz Mahomed

Hijab Performed I Hijab Performed II Digital Photography and Hand Paper Cut Digital Photography and Hand Paper Cut 190 mm Diameter 190 mm Diamter 2016 2016 R 1 900,00 R 1 900,00

Absa Champagne Festival Teresa Kutala Firmino

Biography

Teresa Kutala Firmino was born in 1993 in Pomfret, a former military camp in the North West. She Museum of the Dead in Play now works and lives in Johannesburg. Teresa is a multimedia artist working with mediums such as Acrylic and Collage on Canvas paint, photography and performance. She is part of a collective called Kutala Chopeto. The collective 760 x 920 mm started as an investigation into their history, which is linked to the 32 Battalion. Their work addresses 2019 issues of identity, heritage and history associated with their family’s migration. Teresa takes different R 19 000,00 stories that are derived from the Pomfret community and restructures, rewrites and re-imagines them in different art forms. The series, The War At Home, focuses on hidden or known histories in the home.

Artist Statement

The home a place of comfort and safety can also be a space of trauma and pain. These stories have the power to rebuild or destroy families. Teresa looks into the hidden and known stories in her own family and community and reveals them in constructed scenes in her paintings. These stories range from personal experiences to historical events that have affected her home. Some scenes are playful hiding these traumas and others brutally honest. However, these scenes, archives and stories present themselves as possibilities, possibilities for the viewer to reimagine their own histories in them. Stories of war, pain, happiness can be both personal and universal.

Museum of the Dead Playing Dress Up Acrylic and Collage on Canvas 760 x 920 mm 2019 R 19 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Thomas Ngulube

Biography

Nkosinathi Thomas Ngulube was born in 1975 in Barberton, Mpumalanga. He currently works and Funky Ghetto resides in Cape Town where he started his own gallery, using the space to not only produce his own Mixed Media on Paper work, but to provide a platform for young artists. Although he sees himself as a self-taught artist, 1100 x 800 mm Ngulube has in fact been associated with several educational institutions such as the Johannesburg 2019 Art Foundation and Artists Proof Studios in Newtown, Johannesburg. However, he says that he was R 32 000,00 born an artist and unable to conform to the boundaries imposed by institutional art education. His natural talent has allowed him to work in several mediums such as sculpture, printmaking and painting.

Artist Statement

Ngulube states that his work is subjectively and universally inspired by diversity. He finds much of his inspiration in city life, which he refers to in the following manner: “I stand in the middle of it and observe its crookedness, its beauty, its mysterious people from all over.” Religious gospel stories also serve as inspiration, drawing from his own very deeply rooted spirituality to inform his thinking. His enthusiasm for art and the creative process is contagious and very tangible in his work. His resultant abstract works contain only subtle hints towards the subject matter, with the work’s title often providing the clues.

Living on a Prayer Steel 710 x 350 x 1400 mm 2019 R 112 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Thomas Ngulube

Green Pasters Ignorance Mixed Media on Paper Mixed Media on Paper 1000 x 1240 mm 1000 x 1250 mm 2019 2019 R 34 000,00 R 34 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Vincent Osemwegie

Biography

Vincent was born in 1977 in Nigeria, and being creative since childhood, went on to study art at the University of Benin.

Since 2009, he calls South Africa home. The year 2013 marked a turn in his artistic career when his technique evolved “from realistic to expressive”, creating images with drippings of paints, and with little or no brush contact to the canvas.

Vincent has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Johannesburg, including one organized by Bronwyn Lace at the bag factory in 2009. His recent group shows were at the Lizamore & Associates in 2015/2016 and at Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town in 2017, where he had a solo in May 2018. His desire to work with media that are yet to be explored in the art has landed him to paint on Perspex, positively impacting his artistic career.

Vincent spends most of his time painting at his studio located in a quiet and serene part of Johannesburg.

Artist Statement

Surrounded by the beauty, in my day to day observations, I paint mostly figurines and landscapes. My technique being very expressive, I create images by dripping paints over my canvas/perspex. The manner in which I move my brush over my work surface is responsible for the variation in line sizes which make my paintings unique. My mixed media on Perspex works are done by dripping enamel paints on either sides of the perspex and attaching newspaper/magazine cutouts using a clear adhesive that infuses into the perspex material. The fluidity in my brush dripped lines represents life’s rigors and happiness. The stitches running through all my paintings talk about my belief in making right, to our best capabilities, the wrong things we come across in life, before considering the option of discarding them. Number 021990 Number 051988 Mixed Media on Perspex Mixed Media on Perspex In my works, the issues surrounding identity, both real and superficial cannot be over emphasized. 1060 x 1560 mm 1060 x 1560 mm Centered mostly on social matters and sometimes hinging on politics, my art is mostly about 2019 2019 remembering the past, living the present whilst considering an inevitable future. I believe art is R 30 000,00 R 30 000,00 spiritual and I acknowledge God as my sole inspiration.

Absa Champagne Festival Phumulani Ntuli

Biography

Phumulani Ntuli holds a Masters in the Fine Arts- Arts Public Sphere from (ECAV) Ecole Cantonale These Ships Will Sink D’Art du Valais in Sierre-Switzerland and was awarded Prix-excellence for his ongoing research Mixed Media on Canvas project “Per- mutations of an event” centered around notions of archives and surveillance. Ntuli’s 1600 x 1100 mm opus merges the ambit of artistic research, sculpture, video installations and performative practices. 2018 Ntuli’s process is formulated by artistic convergences that overlap between/ around and/ or in R 25 000,00 documentation(s), image and visual as spaces of engagement. He consistently engages diverse publics/ audiences and attempts to make visible History’s gaps/ breaks/ silences/pauses and remnants. Ntuli’s artistic framework draws in these issues immanence/ imminence within our present and how they can in uence practices within the spectrum of decoloniality.

As an artist/ practitioner Ntuli has presented and/ or contributed work within the context of the 2016 Kampala Biennale in Uganda curated by Elise Atangana, the 2016 Bone Performance Festival in Bern Switzerland, curated by Valerian Maly and also performed in the 2016 Act Festival in Geneva, Basel, Sierre and Zurich. During the aforementioned year, Ntuli participated in residencies/ workshops at the Fondazi- one Pistoletto in Biella, Italy and the Alps Art Academy in Chur, Switzerland.

Artist Statement

I am currently working on a news series of mixed media collages, sculptural and video installations. A Cloak and Two Aprons The body of work is a stance on contemporary fictions and visual archives of the future, reframed Mixed Media on Canvas from an autobiographical narrative and within the public spheres. 1580 x 1050 mm 2018 The work decomposes scenes, actions, tentions relating to notions of social, cultural mobilities, R 25 000,00 musculinities and forms of speculation of the future as experienced in the present. The body of work figures the comming event and navigates personal visual narratives of body, environment, place and spaces in order to reconcile the envisage event.

Absa Champagne Festival Jan Tshikhuthula

Biography

Jan Tshikhuthula was born in Tzaneen, South Africa in 1983. In 2005 he studied at the Matongoni Art Academy under the mentorship of Avhashoni Mainganye, who encouraged him to specialize in printmaking at the Artist Proof Studio. He then moved to Johannesburg where he obtained his Professional Printmaking Certificate from Artist Proof Studio in 2010. He has participated in a number of group shows with various Artist Proof Studio artists and continues to run a range of printmaking workshops with the Special Projects Outreach department at Artist Proof Studio.

Artist Statement

Tshikhuthula’s work is characterised by a sophisticated and elegant sense of design allied with an impeccable technique and superb drawing skills. His work symbolises both power and movement, displaying his personal journey into finding the spirit of his grandfather that connects artists through their parallel art forms.

The Movers Soft Pastel on Paper 1400 x 1100 2019 R 45 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Patrick Mautloa

Biography

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa studied art at Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, KwaZulu Natal and at the Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto. He has participated in Thupelo and Triangle workshops, held numerous solo and group exhibitions, and has work in a number of important public collections across South Africa.

His work studies the street life around him and his studio at the Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artists Studios) in downtown Johannesburg. The women roasting mielies (corn) over coal-fred tin braziers Abstraction in Red on street corners, the wholesalers and hawkers selling cheap imports from the Far East, the street Oil on Canvas traders who eke out a living with a few items on a small board near the busy intersections. Working 1100 x 1100 mm with fgurative elements, abstract textures and multiple colour overlays, the work exploits the 2019 potential of lithography. Mautloa has made innovative use of drawing materials for these prints, R 50 000,00 using found objects as stencils through which to spray tusche and toner. Textures are an important part of Mautloa’s work, as he works he notices the mundane surfaces around him and will sometimes use these in his work.

Unexpected things like the rough surface of a well used cutting board, or a worn out cotton rag, hold a new fascination and beauty for him. Delicate drawing and seemingly random splatter, entice the viewer and challenge one to look at the world in a new way. Kagiso Patrick Mautloa is an artist Auto Self Portrait whose work eludes a neat defnition, as he is as comfortable in his abstract work as he is in the Oil on Canvas more fgurative imagery. Most of his work is in oils and acrylic but he has also included found 800 x 800 mm objects and collage in his two dimensional work and has also done a number of installations as 2019 well as doing photographic work. R 60 000,00

Faces Oil on Canvas 600 x 400 mm 2019 R 25 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Anna van der Ploeg

Biography

Anna van der Ploeg (b.1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker from Cape Town. She A View of the Sea, Johannesburg currently shares a studio space in Paarden Eiland with several other artists and a printmaking press. Oil on Canvas She has had two solo shows at SMITH Studio – Arc and Toll and Growing to another Sun. After the 400 x 310 mm success of her first show she spent time doing Artist-in-Residence Programs in France, India and 2019 Japan. These explorations, as well as previous experience at The Artist’s Press in White River, have R 12 000,00 been formative to her process-based practice and appreciation for different methods in print.

Van der Ploeg’s parallel role as a beekeeper permeates her visual language, the rich, ritualistic performance allows her to embody this veiled figure and mine it’s metaphors. She is interested in proximity to discomfort and to others; in what we choose to reveal of ourselves.

Holding Water, Hannah’s Shower, Cape Town Oil on Canvas 360 x 260 mm 2019 R 10 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Renyman Masukume

Biography

Grew up in a mountainous village called Mlelezi in Matebeland North, Zimbabwe. I fell in love with art from a young age because of nature in the area i grew up in (i was surrounded by rivers, mountains and all sorts of wild animals). To me nature is art, because it speaks to my inner being. I told myself that i am a creator, just as God calls us gods in the Holy Bible.

My passion for art grew even more since 2009 when I started working under a brilliant South African artist, Louis Olivier. I also had the privilege of working with William Kentridge from 2012 to 2019.

I love putting together different kinds of objects to form a single piece. I believe there is life in everything that exists, be it in a stone, piece of wood or anything. Every object lying around is conversing to the one next to it. Once put together they form a collective message which appears as a sculpture.

Messenger Resin - Edition 1 of 5 675 x 435 x 365 mm 2019 R 30 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Mbali Dhlamini

Biography

Mbali Dhlamini (b. Johannesburg, South Africa, 1990; MA University of the Witwatersrand, 2015) is a multidisciplinary artist and visual researcher.

Dhlamini performs visual, tactile and discursive investigations into current indigenous cultural practices. With a view towards decolonized practices in contemporary culture, her work is in constant conversation with her past and present visual landscapes. Working to maintain a state of unlearning and relearning, Dhlamini’s process recognises language as a medium of understanding and as a repository of knowledge.

Dhlamini is a dynamic and energetic practitioner who exists across roles within the arts sector - from producing her own work to facilitating self-sustaining artist collectives, exhibitions and other art- centered gatherings.

Untitled - Senegal, Femme Cerere Untitled - Afrique Occidentale, Jeunes Filles Digital Print on Archival Paper Saussai 1000 x 709 mm Digital Print on Archival Paper 2017 1000 x 709 mm R 28 000,00 2017 R 28 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Michael Selekane

Biography

Michael Tshepo Selekane was born in 1986 in Uitvlught, a rural village based in Mpumalanga. In the early 90’s he moved with his mother to Mabopane, a township north of Pretoria in the Northwest Province.

Michael frst encountered art during his Primary School years where he took part in an art competition. After he matriculated he met Thabo Pitso who introduced him to the Tshwaraganang Arts School in Mabopane. During his time here, Selekane was introduced to the Ifa Lethu Foundation, where he was mentored by artists who participated and contributed to the resistance art movement; artists such as Michael Mmutle, Ike Nkoana, David Phoshoko, Sello Malebye and Lefi Tladi. In 2008 Michael enrolled at the Tshwane University of Technology (Faculty of Arts) (TUT) for Fine and Applied Arts Tech.

Michael has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. He has been represented at the FNB Joburg Art Fair, Turbine Art Fair and The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Michael has taken part in many group and two man showcases, as well as, having had two successful solo exhibitions since 2014. In 2014 Michael addressed the CEO’S and Chairmans of a 100 FTSE companies. The presentation took place at the Lord Mayor’s house in London. During the address one of his artworks was auctioned by Bonhams London.

Michael currently works with and is represented by M Studio Community.

Artist Statement

In a crowded community, there is constant chatter and interactions creating a regenerating energy; a cycle of daily routines and rhythms which set the facade for a dysfunctional society. When all appears welcoming and healthy, Michael takes us to a space where the ‘other’ exists. Drawing from his own experiences as a migrant within the South African borders, Michael captures the deep vulnerability of displaced people. Selekane interviews fellow migrants in order to examine the isolated individual within a vibrant community, and to gain an understanding of the diffculties they face in fnding work, Sketches From Shana Series - Collection of 12 shelter, and communal support and acceptance. Our social structure is built on the notion of safety Silkscreen on Fabriano - Edition of 5 plus 1 a/p in numbers and to fear that which exists outside of our realm of normal. Through his use of minimal 1100 x 1100 mm colour and the depiction of vast empty expanses, Michael creates the stark environment where 2019 ‘wolves’ take advantage of the solitary ‘sheep.’ R 60 000,00

Absa Champagne Festival Michael Selekane

Sketches From Shana Sketches From Shana II Silkscreen on Wood Monoprint Silkscreen on Wood Monoprint 1000 x 400 mm 1000 x 400 mm 2019 2019 R 15 500,00 R 15 500,00

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