Meet the Artists

Jazz, collage and the township spirit

Visual activist and photographer

Urgent political painter

Monumental drawings and pioneering soot works

Guardian of Ndebele artistic tradition

Abstract steel and stone sculptor, Johannesburg

Spectacular performance and woven mythology

Politically charged figurative painter, Eastern Cape

Pioneer South African studio ceramicist

Printmaker weaving ancestral spirituality and Sotho symbolism

Cape Town wildlife sculptor — monumental bronze figures

Exuberant colour-saturated figurative painting

South African artist and musician (1913–1993)

Landscape painter capturing South African light

Weaving and beadwork artist, Venice Biennale 2022

South African artist (1894–1966)

Self-taught wood carver, naive religious and political figures

Cape Town photographer — colour and community

Classical portraiture meets gestural abstraction

Wire sculptor — township street art and figures

Figurative sculptor in stone and bronze

Self-taught painter of Ndebele and Tswana cultural life

South African artist (born 1982)

Printmaker and co-founder of Artist Proof Studio

Stone and bronze sculptor — figurative and abstract

Pioneering Venda sculptor

Cape Town sculptor working with found materials

South African artist from Cape Town (born 1953)

Documentary photography across Africa

Cape Town artist — ceramics, watercolour, still life

Township-born bronze sculptor, Egoli Arts movement

SA's most celebrated contemporary artist

Mixed-media artist exploring identity and belonging

Photography and video art

One of the most significant painters alive

Printmaker and draughtsman