Art Auction
- Charity Art Auction 2026
Art with Purpose
Discover extraordinary works from South Africa’s most talented contemporary artists. Every purchase supports our mission to bring positive change to communities across the nation.
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Each piece represents a unique vision and contributes to positive social impact
Artist
Alpheus Ngoepe
Quilt of Hope
Medium
Acrylic on Canvas
Size
208 x 176 cm (unframed)
Year
2025
Price
R50 000
About the Artist
Born on 24 July 1995 in Limpopo and now based in Johannesburg, Alpheus creates art rooted in self-reflection, identity and humanity. His work explores the layers of people, city life and the environment, turning them into abstract visual stories. Drawing from photography, he translates what he sees and experiences into paintings, often using text as a meaningful symbolic element. Beyond his artistic practice, he is passionate about social impact and works with philanthropic organisations to help uplift disadvantaged communities. Through his art, Alpheus hopes to inspire both personal reflection and wider change, leaving a meaningful mark on the world around him.
Artist
Melissa Haiden
Spring at the Wilds
Medium
Oil & Pastel on Canvas
Size
(107 x 172 cm) x 3 panels framed in natural wood, triptych)
Year
2025
Price
R135 000
About the Artist
Melissa Haiden (born 1987) resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. She graduated from The University of Cape Town in 2009 with an Honours Degree in Theatre and Performance. Haiden’s greater body of work is inspired by her background in physical performance, is interdisciplinary and varies between mediums, however, is largely expressed through video and live performance, oils, acrylic and sketching.
Artist
Nwabisa Ntlokwana
Walk the Walk
Medium
Jacaranda wood sculpture
Size
56 x 40 cm
Year
2026
Price
R27 000
About the Artist
Born in 1988 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, Nwabisa Ntlokwana is a Johannesburg-based visual artist whose work explores themes of environmental sustainability and her interpretation of modern motherhood. Inspired by the vibrant energy of Africa and the richness of its cultural nuances, her practice is grounded in a contemporary aesthetic and brought to life through striking 3D wall sculptures.
Using upcycled materials, Nwabisa creates works that are not only bold visual statements, but also thoughtful reflections on transformation, renewal and motherhood. Her pieces carry a strong sense of regeneration, giving them both depth and meaning while allowing them to stand out for their beauty and purpose.
Artist
Bekezela Mabena
The Decay of Home & Memory
Medium
Acrylic on canvas with found material
Size
90 x 78 cm (framed)
Year
2025
Price
R30 000
About the Artist
Born in 1996, Bekezela spent his early years in Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa in 2008. He studied at Jiyana Secondary School and later at Artist Proof Studio, where he learned printmaking and began developing his mixed media practice.
His work explores the complex relationship between nature, humanity and migration. Through thoughtful and visually compelling pieces, Bekezela invites viewers to reflect on their own place within a bigger shared world. With a strong interest in storytelling and social commentary, his art opens up meaningful conversations, encourages empathy and creates connection across cultures.
Artist
Thamsanga Mfuphi
Umnikelo Yami (My Offerings)
Medium
Cow dung, acrylic, and pastels on brown paperboard
Size
130 x 90 cm (unframed)
Year
2026
Price
R25 000
About the Artist
Born in 1998 in Estcourt, a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, he is a South African artist whose life journey has shaped his path and personal outlook. After the passing of his mother in 2002, he and his siblings moved to Zimbabwe to live with their stepmother’s family. During the thirteen years he spent there, he faced many hardships, including child abuse, lack of access to education, food insecurity, and periods of displacement.
Despite these challenges, he remained determined to build a better future. He later returned to South Africa and completed his matric in 2017. He then enrolled at the University of Johannesburg in the School of Business and Economics, where he pursued a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management. Following this, he further developed his artistic skills by studying Printmaking at Artist Proof Studio.
Artist
Simon Moshapo Jr
Yotuwa na Vhaffiyo
Medium
Jacaranda wood & acrylic paint, wooden sculpture
Size
43 x 53 x 55 cm
Year
2023
Price
R50 000
About the Artist
Kholofelo Simon Moshapo Jnr is a South African multidisciplinary visual artist, born in 1991 in Limpopo and raised in Indermark village, where his cultural roots first began shaping his creative voice. He studied Fine Art at Tshwane University of Technology, completing his National Diploma in 2015.
Working across sculpture, drawing, painting and printmaking, his practice is deeply personal and shaped by his experience of living with epilepsy. Through texture, symbolism and materials such as wood, he explores identity, vulnerability, healing and resilience.
His work is also driven by a deep love for Tshivenda culture, which he honours by drawing on its traditions, values and visual language. Now based in Johannesburg and working from August House, Kholofelo creates art that connects personal experience with wider social and cultural conversations.
Artist
Blessing Blaai
When Man Rode Horses
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Size
86 x 87 cm (unframed)
Year
2025
Price
R54 000
About the Artist
Blessing Blaai is a South African artist whose work is shaped by questions of upbringing, environment and lived experience. Trained in painting, drawing and printmaking, he later refined his practice through a deeper focus on printmaking.
Working across painting, watercolour, ink and mixed media, his art explores memory, identity and place through layered, expressive compositions. Alongside his studio practice, Blaai is also an accomplished muralist, with both private and public commissions that bring art into shared urban spaces.
His work has featured in notable group exhibitions, including African Mobilities: This is Not a Refugee Camp. Beyond the gallery, he is committed to community engagement and arts education, having facilitated visual art programmes for inner-city children in Johannesburg through The Market Foundation.
Artist
Johan Stegmann
The Tragic death of De La Rey (Die Moord van Oom Koos)
Medium
Etching
Edition
18/20
Size
30 x 20 cm (framed)
Year
2018
Price
R7 000
About the Artist
Johan Stegmann is a South African artist known for his highly detailed charcoal drawings & etchings in a classical (euro-centric) style, but with a subversive twist. His work offers mash-ups of different periods in history that contain colliding identities, perspectives, ideologies and opinions. As a white Afrikaans male, Stegmann embraces his own identity with a performative purpose, as seen in his installations, public engagements, and video works. With a penchant for paradox, Stegmann’s work indulges a problematic voice to the point where it becomes something else, something vibrant with duality.
Artist
Dustin August
No Longer Soft in the Light
Medium
Mixed media, Lithograph, pulp Painting
Size
59 x 84 cm (framed)
Year
2024
Price
R10 000
About the Artist
Dustin August is an independent, self-taught, multi-disciplined visual artist. His current creative outlets are photography, graphic design and illustration. He has a formal background in architecture which guides and anchors his approach to these disciplines.
His practice is anchored in process and experimentation where he often returns to the themes of deconstruction, layering and transparency. While highlighting the process of making, his work is also a call to take up space. It is a stylised portrait of the queer body and is guided by the overarching driver to showcase and capture as many nuances of the queer experience. It is experimental, developing and fluid yet also considered and composed.
In 2022 he produced his first public mural with HALLS at the Playground in Braamfontein. The mural artwork also made it to the cover of BIZART magazine Issue 03_Spring 2022. He has since completed three more murals at Blackbrick Hotel in Sandton and Math Restaurant in Waterfall. He has showcased at Turbine Art Fair in 2024 and was part of the RMB Talent Unlocked 2024 artist program and Latitudes Art Fair 2025. At the end of 2025, he completed a year-long residency at August House that saw him develop and explore his artistic practice. Dustin lives and works in Johannesburg.
Artist
Mbali Tshabalala
The Window that Watched her Unveiling
Medium
Hand painting, collage and acrylic on paper
Size
144 x 200 cm (framed)
Year
2025
Price
R135 000
About the Artist
Mbali Tshabalala is a South African multidisciplinary artist, curator, and creative entrepreneur born in East London, Eastern Cape. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine and Applied Arts from Tshwane University of Technology and further developed her practice through printmaking studies at Artist Proof Studio, alongside a background in Graphic Design and Darkroom photography. She began her artistic career in 2019 after more than seven years in curatorial and art administration, adopting a “curator as artist” approach. Tshabalala has held roles such as assistant curator at Zeitz MOCAA and has led initiatives including The Joburg Fringe. She is the founder of Collective UNTITLD and Anecdotes Gallery.
Her work is held in notable collections including Rand Merchant Bank, JP Morgan Chase, William Humphreys Gallery, Art Bank South Africa, and Spier Art Trust, and has been exhibited at institutions such as Pretoria Art Association, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well as auctioned through Strauss & Co. and Aspire Art Auction. Tshabalala’s practice spans collage, painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography, exploring the intersectionality of Black women’s experiences.
Central to her artistic expression is her own identity, particularly within the context of a post-colonial African city. “I critique the collision between indigenous culture and a Eurocentric urban landscape, highlighting the neglect and its impact on mental health.” Tshabalala’s artwork intertwines ancient African knowledge systems with contemporary lived experiences through storytelling that reflects this cultural collision and its consequences.
Artist
Kathryn Barnard
She’s a Fire Andromedae
Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Size
100 x 60cm (Framed)
Year
2025
Price
R48 000
About the Artist
Kathryn Barnard is a South African multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Johannesburg. Raised in Beijing, China, she studied Fine Arts at Stellenbosch University and later completed a BA in English and Communication Science at Varsity College. She has worked closely with galleries, artists, and creative agencies, building extensive experience in the art industry.
Since 2014, Barnard has sold more than 100 artworks, including commissioned pieces for private collectors, galleries, companies, and international clients. Her practice is marked by strong experimentation and craftsmanship. Her series The Seraphim Lovers (2022), created using a 24K gold-infused ink medium developed through years of testing, was exhibited at Gavin Project Gallery in Sandton alongside works by notable South African artists.
Her 2024 exhibition, Pareidolia, explored the relationship between art and psychology by placing the viewer at the centre of the experience, encouraging deeper reflection and connection.
Barnard has also completed large-scale public and charity projects, including an eighteen-by-three-metre mural commissioned for a children’s playground in Ukulhas, Maldives, in 2022. Since then, she has continued painting murals in South Africa. In 2023, she opened Artjamming Sandton, a shared creative studio designed to make art more accessible and to inspire artists of all ages. In July 2025, she was interviewed on METRO FM, where she spoke about her work, creativity, and the value of art.
Artist
Wisani Manyisi
Anticipation of the Soul
Medium
Mixed media on paper
Size
180 x 180 cm (unframed)
Year
2026
Price
R56 000
About the Artist
My Journey as a Contemporary Artist. I am Wisani Manyisi, a contemporary artist born in Limpopo, South Africa. Currently working and residing in Johannesburg. My artistic journey is deeply rooted in my fascination by the past and psychology, which I juxtapose with my childhood memories. My creative endeavours began in my youth, when the only available medium was clay, wires, wood and other found objects. This early exploration of diverse mediums laid the foundation for my artistic development. I started my art journey in 2010 when I first got to Funda Centre where I attained my Foundation in Art Practice. I then proceeded to the Tshwane University of Technology in 2013-2017, where I completed a Diploma and a B-Tech in Fine Art. Further expanding my education, I obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, specialising in Creative and Visual Arts, from the University of Johannesburg in 2019. My diverse artistic training encompasses printmaking, drawing, and sculpture.
This multifaceted approach reflects my commitment to artistic expression. My work has been recognised through several achievements, including being selected as a student mentor in 2015-2016 and participating in the Association of Art in Pretoria “student exhibition” that year. I was also a finalist in 2019 at Thami Mnyele Art Competition, Sasol New Signature Competition finalist in 2023, 2024 and 2025.I am crowned as Umsizi No Pende overall winner in 2025.
Artist
Sizwe Khoza
My Whole Life you Watched me from Afar
Medium
Charcoal drawing on canvas
Size
100 x 200 cm (unframed)
Year
2021
Price
R64 000
About the Artist
Sizwe Khoza was born two years before the end of the Civil War in his country of birth, Mozambique, and moved to South Africa in 1995.
He matriculated in 2010 from Nkumbula Comprehensive School and, during his matric year, attended Saturday classes at Artist Proof Studio. Khoza graduated from Artist Proof Studio in 2012. In 2013, he was offered a residency at William Humphrey Art Gallery (WHAG) in Kimberley under the mentorship of the late Dumisani Mabaso. He was then offered an internship at Artist Proof Studio, and in 2014 started teaching printmaking to first- and second-year students full time. Twice a year he travels to Mozambique to take photographs, and upon his return creates new works inspired by his visit back home. Khoza specialises in painting, monotype and combined printmaking techniques, and has recently had numerous exhibitions with Artist Proof Studio and various other galleries.
Artist
Thokozani Mthiyane
Ancient Songs Awakening VII
Medium
Soil, charcoal, mixed media on canvas
Size
90 x 110 cm (framed)
Year
2023
Price
R30 000
About the Artist
Thokozani Mthiyane is a Johannesburg based artist. He has been influenced by his time spent under the tutelage of artists Sfiso KaMkame and Thami Jali. Mthiyane has experience in children’s theatre with the Madcap’s Educational Theatre Company, after which he had his first solo exhibition at the Flat Gallery in Durban. Mthiyane’s artistic flare stems from his creative combination of painting and poetry. He has exhibited for Alliance Françoise and Resolution Gallery in Johannesburg. In 2015 he had a solo exhibition titled “Whetin dey happen Lagos/ Jozi” at Mzansi Gallery Johannesburg South Africa.
He was represented by Art Eye Gallery and had his solo show titled “Soul Songs: The shape of my head.” Whenever Mthiyane paints he plays a lot of jazz in the background and that also fuels his thought process. His works are more about personal expression and the channelling of innate creative forces than they are stylistically reflexive engagements with the discourse of art history. “The works are only premeditated up to maybe the first gesture. After that to complete them, it’s something completely different”, he says.
Artist
Usha Seejarim
Innocent
Medium
Tile Mosaic
Size
163 x 88.5 x 5 cm (framed)
Year
2021
Price
R350 000
About the Artist
Usha Seejarim is a conceptual artist whose practice interrogates the intersection of gender,labour and power through the transformation of everyday, domestic objects. By recontextualising materials such as irons, brooms, and wooden pegs, Seejarim’s sculpture and installations destabilise normative associations of women’s work, reframing acts of care and repetition as aesthetic and political gestures.
Born in Bethal, South Africa in 1974, the artist obtained a B Tech Honours in Fine Art from the University of Johannesburg (1999) and a Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Witwatersrand (2008). She has a Master’s in Business Administration awarded by the University of Reading, UK through Henley Business School (2025).
Seejarim has held numerous solo exhibitions, including Used at Southern Guild New York (Forthcoming) (2026); Unfolding Servitude at Southern Guild Cape Town (2025). She has also presented solo exhibitions at SMAC Gallery (Cape Town and Johannesburg), Kunstinstituut Melly. (Rotterdam), SCAC Marestaing (France) and a traveling exhibition, Venus at Home (2012-2014), at Northwest University Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Durban Art Gallery and the National Arts Festival in Makhanda. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Städtishe Galerie Bremen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Dak’Art Biennale, Nirox Sculpture Park, FADA Gallery at the University of Johannesburg and Iziko South African National Gallery, among others.
Seejarim is a visiting Professor of Practice with the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg. She has received multiple awards, including the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art’s SEED Award, Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s Tomorrow’s/Today Prize, and Ampersand Fellowship Award.
Her work is included in the collections of the Iziko South African National Gallery, Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, among others.
Artist
Samurai Farai
Mwari, The Creator
Medium
Oil stick, acrylic paint, japanese ink and silver leaf on watercolour paper
Size
135 x 113.5 cm (framed)
Year
2024
Price
R86 000
About the Artist
Contemporary Visual Artist · Cultural Innovator · Creative Director South Africa
Samurai Farai is a contemporary visual artist and cultural innovator whose multidisciplinary practice spans fine art, public art, design, fashion, brand collaborations, music, and digital media. He is recognised for a distinctive visual language that merges Cubist structure with Afrocentric portraiture and contemporary abstraction, and for a career that bridges gallery practice with high-profile international brand and cultural collaborations.
His work has been exhibited at major contemporary art fairs and galleries, commissioned by global brands and cultural institutions, featured in international fashion and music contexts, and viewed by millions of audiences worldwide through digital platforms and streaming media. He is widely recognised as a leading creative voice within contemporary African visual culture.
Artist
Gustav Krantz
Weight Down
Medium
Found object charcoal drawing
Size
1.8m x 4m (unframed)
Year
2024
Price
R19 000
About the Artist
Gustav Krantz is a visual artist based in Johannesburg. They graduated from the University of Johannesburg in 2022. Their works appear in a number of private collections. Krantz’s work explores the tension between labour and tending in a post-apartheid landscape of dreams. Their work focuses on found materials processed through spontaneous and formal means into stand-alone objects and sites. Works take the form of interactive location-specific interventions. Sculptural elements co-habit with drawings, prints, and large swaths of colour. Their means of working often delves into obsessive-making co-existing with collaboration, temporal process developments and community engagement
Artist
Percy Mailmela
Bring Light
Medium
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Size
78 x 78 cm (unframed)
Year
2026
Price
R35 000
About the Artist
Percy Maimela (1985) is a self-taught artist born in Pretoria, South Africa.
He is currently working at August House studios in Johannesburg. Maimela discovered his love for art during his early childhood.
In 2014 while working as a sales assistant, Maimela decided to pursue art as his part-time business making portraits for commissions. He then became a full-time practitioner in art in 2016 and was introduced to conceptual and investment art.
His preferred medium includes charcoal drawing, painting and some traditional art forms, but he also experiments with untraditional mediums like salt, maize meal, ashes, and coffee grounds which he holds a Guinness World Record for. This technique Maimela discovered during his retail employment in 2014.
After discovering the technique of producing art pieces with salt, Percy Maimela gained a lot of media interest leading to his work being profiled by TV shows like 100% Youth and My First, both on SABC1. Maimela’s work is mostly inspired by issues and conditions surrounding his communities and his main objective is to confront these issues and to inspire resolution.
The Mask in Maimela’s work is a universal totem that represents our past, present and future. The finger print lines are a symbol of DNA and culture we inherited from our long history before we are created. The physical form of the mask is a showcase of the presence and the aerodynamic shape is a symbol of the future, to show the possibilities that one can become how they desire to be. This mask also aims to remove us from a sense of individuality for one to know that my story is far bigger than me and my current situation.
Artist
Alpheus, Nomonde, Mongezi, Dumisani, Sihlobo & Lindelwa
By the Six
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Size
265 x 175cm (unframed)
Year
2025
Price
R76 000
About the Artist
Created over four weeks by artists based at August House Studios, Johannesburg, this collaborative painting is a visual manifesto born from the spirit of Ubuntu and a celebration of unity, difference, and imaginative resistance to fragmentation in our social and ecological fabric. The tree, a symbol of lineage, development, and connectivity, is the main character of this work, but not as a biological form; it is an imaginary tree, grounded not only in soil but also in memory, future hope, and shared dreaming.
The branches twist up into the air, pierced by surreal interruptions to gravity and realism: a black-and-white checkered portal, floating objects, and a hazy Johannesburg skyline in the distance, which creates a feeling of metaphysical tension, or the dissonance between actuality and potentiality. In many cultures from African cosmologies to Norse mythology (Yggdrasil) the tree is a sacred symbol connecting the underworld, the earthly and the cosmic. The varied approaches, textures and brushwork showcase the diverse hands that worked on the piece, a direct metaphor for the multiplicity of cultures, identities, and histories that converge in Johannesburg.
Artist
Teboho Makoatsa
Ziyanda
Medium
Mixed medium
Size
119 x152cm (unframed)
Year
2025
Price
R50 000
About the Artist
Teboho Makoatsa emerges as a prominent figure within the South African contemporary art landscape. Born in the Free State Province and later raised in the Northwest Province, his early life was shaped by prodigious talent and a natural ability to capture the spirit, rhythms, and realities of his time.
His latest body of work, Girls on Heels, showcases a sensitivity to the subtle nuances of a young woman’s rite of passage. Through vibrant, expressive brushstrokes rich in emotion and detail, the series explores the intimate ways in which young girls observe, inherit, and reinterpret their feminine role models. Themes of modernity, empowerment, and generational transmission flow throughout the work.
Central to his practice is the elevation of everyday objects, heels, headphones, mobile phones, and travel bags, into potent symbols of contemporary life. Much like Andy Warhol transformed the mundane into cultural commentary, he recontextualizes ordinary items, inviting viewers to look beyond the surface and discover deeper meaning within the familiar.
Alongside these contemporary symbols, he remains deeply committed to painting the daily lives of African people living in villages. His work pays homage to ordinary moments, communal life, and lived experiences often overlooked, bridging rural narratives with modern realities. This dual focus gives his work both cultural depth and emotional resonance.
Well-renowned in South Africa, he continues to build strong artistic momentum. He most recently exhibited in Johannesburg in Spring 2023, following a highly successful exhibition in Abidjan, a major cultural hub in West Africa, located in Côte d’Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast. As his practice evolves, his work speaks powerfully to shared human experiences, leaving art lovers and collectors anticipating further international exhibitions and opportunities to engage with his compelling vision.
Artist
Elvis Magagula
Tfoba Inhlitiyo. What’s Gone Is Gone
Medium
Oil and flour on Fabriano
Size
42 x 59.4 cm (framed)
Price
R12 500
About the Artist
Born in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, I grew up in rural Nhlazatje, just before South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994. I never witnessed the injustices of the old regime directly, but I felt their residue. Broken family structures. Distant fathers. Alcoholic mothers. Abusive uncles and aunts. A people still learning how to be whole.
My work draws from these felt experiences. Grief. Trauma. Shame. This is our generation’s inheritance.
Through painting, I ask the question this country has not yet finished answering. How do we hold what we’ve been given, and how do we move forward?
Artist
William Kentridge
9 Trees for Sibyl
Medium
Litho (Print)
Size
121 x 91.6cm (framed)
Edition
1/20 - 16/20
Price
R220 000
About the Artist
William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) is one of South Africa’s most influential artists, known for his unmistakable charcoal animations that unfold through drawing, erasure, and revision. Working from his Johannesburg studio, he has built a practice that moves fluidly between film, theatre, opera, and large-scale installation.
His work is rooted in the instability of memory and history, often circling the legacies of apartheid and the shifting ground of personal and political narratives. Rather than offering fixed images, Kentridge lets meaning emerge through process, where each mark carries the trace of what came before.
Over the past four decades, his work has been shown across the world, but it remains anchored in Johannesburg, a city that continues to shape its language and urgency.
Artist
Sue Pam Grant
Title Last Night Of The World; Sakura Kiss
Size
115 x78cm (framed)
Price
R58 000
About the Artist
Sue Pam-Grant moves across painting, performance, and writing with a practice that feels both deeply intimate and intellectually alert. Her work lingers in the fragile space between presence and disappearance, where touch, memory, and vulnerability become subtle acts of resistance. Drawing on psychoanalysis, feminist thought, and the Japanese idea of mono no aware, she gives form to emotional undercurrents that are often difficult to name.
Pam-Grant has exhibited widely, with notable solo exhibitions and performance encounters including ‘Why Do Moths Fly Like Crazy Fucks in the Night’ at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, which later travelled to the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (2024). For this work, she received nominations for both the Fleur du Cap and the Woordfees Award for Best Solo Performance.
Her exhibition SHE LINES at TPO Wits Gallery, Johannesburg (2021), formed part of her Master’s degree. Her collaborative work with William Kentridge includes ‘O Sentimental Machine’ at the Istanbul Biennale (2015) and ‘I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine’, which toured internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art (2010).
More recent performance encounters include ‘14 734 Dots Between’, developed in collaboration with a Tokyo-based artist and presented as a performance encounter in Tokyo (2025).
She holds a Master’s degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and has been awarded an honorary doctorate. Her artist books are held in the Wits Art Museum, including the Jack Ginsberg Collection, as well as in private and public collections internationally. Represented by Axis Gallery, New York, Pam-Grant lives and works in Cape Town.
About ‘Last Night of the World; Sakura Kiss’
My transdisciplinary practice treats painting, drawing, writing, and performance as interrelated acts of inscription that collapse distinctions between mind and body, self and other. Drawing on psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and mono no aware, I explore intimacy, impermanence, and the politics of tenderness, where beauty becomes a way of holding form when certainty fails. In Last Night of the World; Sakura Kiss, the fleeting gesture of a kiss is rendered fragile and unrepeatable, transforming touch into a quiet act of resistance and a way of holding what vanishes. – Sue Pam Grant
Artist
Lindo Zwane
You wanted liver and hearts and what else?
Medium
Charcoal on canvas
Size
117 x 142.5 cm (unframed)
Year
2023
Price
R35 000
About the Artist
Lindokuhle Zwane is a South African artist born in KwaZulu-Natal and raised in Kingsway, Benoni, Johannesburg. He works primarily in painting, charcoal drawing, and printmaking. Zwane studied printmaking at Artist Proof Studio, where he later served as a drawing facilitator for three years.
His work is anchored in themes of nostalgia and catharsis. He explores the emotional complexities of memory, identity, and human connection. His practice reflects on how the past continues to shape and inform the present. Through his work, he navigates the tension between accepting history and confronting current realities.
This dialogue between past and present forms the core of his visual language.
Zwane has exhibited widely across South Africa and internationally. Notable exhibitions include the Investec Cape Town Art Fair and FNB Joburg Art Fair.
He has also participated in SAFFCA exhibitions and residencies in Johannesburg, Knysna, Brussels, and the Free State. In 2017, he received the Ekurhuleni Prize (2nd place) at the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards. He later received a painting merit award at the same awards in 2019. His professional development includes mentorships, residencies, and institutional programmes.
Zwane’s work continues to evolve through a commitment to storytelling, memory, and lived experience.
Ngicela isbindi ne hliziyo, konje nani mgani
Artist
Asanda Dredunik Kupa
We Are Different But The Same
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
50cm (unframed)
Price
R22 000
Artist
Njabulo Hlophe
uKukhanya okungapheli: Libunjwa Lis’ Eva
Medium
Oil Pastel on 600gsm Fabriano Artistico
Size
750mm x 1140mm (framed)
Year
2026
Price
R35 000
About the Artist
Njabulo Hlophe (b. 1996- Johannesburg, South Africa) is a multi-medium contemporary artist currently based in Johannesburg.
He would best describe his practice as storytelling rather than mere image making and the stories in question are merely conversations that work both inwardly and outwardly toward his unique experience of his surroundings.
Njabulo completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication at the Stellenbosch
Academy of Design and Photography in the Western Cape.
Njabulo was raised in Soweto and the Johannesburg CBD, where he still resides today, using his practice to interrogate his own existence with what he describes as a “complex” upbringing as a cultural hybrid. In this position, never fully fitting anywhere, he takes a unique position of observer where he is able to analyse and engage critically with the various experiences that would often be avoided and overlooked by the mainstream.
Njabulo’s work is ultimately a storyteller’s response to these various observations. He aims to paint a picture that depicts the plurality of human life, but also simultaneously exposing the parallels we share as human beings, in its own way reflecting on the plurality of identity and the many ways we fight and battles we endure to find our own identities.
“I do not believe my artwork can provide answers of any kind to the many questions that we encounter in our individual journeys through life, however, my work is merely a reflection of my
interrogative process of these questions. I like to question, my art is in the questions.” – Njabulo Hlophe
Artist
Dbongz Mahlathi
Light Has Come
Medium
Acrylic, pastel, spraypaint, on Fabriano (unframed)
Size
42 cm x 59,4cm
Year
2026
Price
R33 000
About the Artist
Dbongz Mahlathi is a Graffiti rooted, Street artist from Mohlakeng, Johannesburg, South Africa. When he first left the township in 2008 to go to the city, what he would discover at the time when he got introduced to the city of Joburg would be what would direct his whole path. He gradually became active in the graffiti scene and got intensely drawn to the freedom of movement and expression it afforded him, also the realization of the global possibilities that could allow him to take on impressive and monumental mural projects while being introduced to new atmospheres and territories.
Though he couldn’t study, he searched books, watched videos and observed other artists, through trial and error, he self-taught. Life in the township happened and he was not painting as frequently because of the lack of finance, but in ’17 he made a conscious and intentional decision to dedicate all of his life pursuits to his art, as a way to counter depression and anxiety. He immersed himself totally towards finding his own style and voice, characterized by muted tones, traditional and spiritual patterns and large-scale portraits and figures.
The ambition being to transform years of hardships into works of art that resonate with daily life and translate doubt into faith, discouragement and disempowerment into courage and power, depression and oppression into patience, persistence and purpose, darkness into light.
For him it is never about painting pretty pictures to adorn the streets and capture life in the metropolis to impress passers-by, but to convey a deep, honest and optimistic vision of humanity, to eliminate the fear congested in human souls and to spread positivity in the midst of a world that is falling apart.
The aim is always to use a style and aesthetic that is easily relatable in order to timelessly vibrate higher in mundane spaces and perpetually inspire ongoing optimism in young and elderly minds and to spread a true narrative of enlightenment to the lost ones and healing to the broken ones. It is to present lively works that, beyond their friendly nature, get to question the minds of people and their traditions in societies as well as cultures and habits in communities. His aim is to travel and paint all over townships and obscure environments across the world. To date he’s been to 11 countries across the world and has painted in many but not enough township locations. The story goes on..
Artist
Andrew Ntshabele
Hope Remains 1
Medium
Acrylic on newspaper
Size
57 x 70cm (Unframed)
Price
R42 500
About the Artist
Andrew Ntshabele, born 1986, lives and works in the inner city of Johannesburg, and his art is informed by his environment. His mixed-media paintings – a fusion of collage and acrylic – depict what he sees and lives with every day.
Andrew was born in the small rural town of Moruleng in the North West Province but moved with his family to the city at a young age. He studied Art at the University of Johannesburg and was awarded his BTech degree, majoring in painting, in 2013.
“I have lived in Johannesburg since the age of four and have witnessed its physical, socio-economic and political changes post-Apartheid,” he explains. “I still live in the inner city where I’m confronted by poverty, pollution and urban decay every day. I’m interested in the people who live in this environment, in the negative effects of rapid urbanisation and how they put a strain on the people I encounter and interact with daily.”
Andrew’s work investigates the social predicament of the city to understand the root causes of the current inner-city decay. “My work is a social commentary on the socio-economic challenges that the majority of Black South Africans face in a post-colonial South Africa. My focal subject matter is often the pollution and rubbish amongst which the inner-city residents live, which is why my paintings incorporate more than one medium. They’re a fusion of collage and acrylic paint and are produced from photographs I take on my daily travels around the inner city and its outskirts.”
Artist
Heino Schmitt
Straight Backed Martian Springhare.
Materials
Basalt, Brass
Size
H970mm W100mm D180mm
Price
R62 700
About the Artist
Heino Schmitt is a contemporary artist whose work explores the intersection of art, design, and materiality, with a particular focus on stone as both medium and concept. Drawing on the idea of “deep time,” his practice reflects an understanding of objects not as static forms, but as carriers of history, transformation, and human connection. Schmitt’s work blurs traditional boundaries between function and meaning, engaging with the emotional and metaphysical dimensions of objects. Through his exploration of form, texture, and process, he creates pieces that invite reflection on the relationship between the physical world and the inner landscape of perception and desire.
Artist
Olivia Pintér
Cool Left
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
190 x 75 cm (unframed)
Year
2023
Price
R15 000
Installation requirements
Hang on wall
Artist
Olivia Pintér
Cool Right
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
190 x 75 cm (unframed)
Year
2023
Price
R15 000
Installation requirements
Hang on wall
Artist
Lerato Nkosi
Withered
Medium
Ink, water, and stamp on canvas
Size
40 x 40 cm (framed)
Year
2022
Price
R18 000
About the Artist
Lerato Nkosi (b. 1993, Mpumalanga, South Africa; lives and works in Johannesburg). Drawing from her experiences as a young girl growing up in a sheltered world that was created for her by her predecessors, Lerato Nkosi has developed a practice that examines the intricacies of the complex interplay of reflection as a powerful emblem of the unconscious mind. How reflection transforms into a vessel that objectively reflects an individual, connecting the two distinctive egos: the conscious ego on the outside and the unconscious ego within. Nkosi is fascinated by how the conscious and unconscious dynamics affect a woman’s perspective of herself and her identity. Nkosi uses metaphorically charged material such as ink and stamps which she uses to create grisaille textures and images. For Nkosi, the materials emerge as conscious, organic elements – powerful change agents that taint and authenticate every surface they come into contact with. Ink and stamps make a permanent impression on any surface they come in contact with. Nkosi sees the teachings of parents imprinted on the child, to be like ink and stamps leaving an indelible mark, forever shaping their sense of self.
Nkosi received a Diploma at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa in 2014. A solo exhibition of her work was organized at Gallery One, Keyes Art Mile, Rosebank, South Africa (2024). Recent Art Fair exhibitions featuring her work include the RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Shepstone Gardens, South Africa (2025), EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (2025), RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Shepstone Gardens, South Africa (2023), Turbine Art Fair, Rosebank, South Africa (2022). Recent group exhibitions featuring her work include Unspoken Codes, Common Names, Art Share, Los Angeles, California (2025), Forewomen, Gallery MOMO, Parkwood, Johannesburg, South Africa (2024), Salon Collectables, Art and About Gallery, Sandton, South Africa (2022), Reshape, Latitudes online (2022), Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa (2022), Sempiternal Summer, Lizamore and Associates, Johannesburg, South Africa (2021), RMB Talent Unlocked, Everard Read Circa Gallery, Rosebank, South Africa (2021), The feminine is political, Fierce Pop, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017), WOMXN, Molo Songololo, Cape Town, South Africa (2017), AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2016).
Nkosi has received several prestigious awards including the ANNA Award, RMB Talent Unlocked, and a finalist for the Sasol New Signatures.
Artist
Lerato Nkosi
Disorienting Strangeness
Medium
Ink, water, and stamp on canvas
Size
40 x 40 cm (framed)
Year
2023
Price
R18 000
About the Artist
Lerato Nkosi (b. 1993, Mpumalanga, South Africa; lives and works in Johannesburg). Drawing from her experiences as a young girl growing up in a sheltered world that was created for her by her predecessors, Lerato Nkosi has developed a practice that examines the intricacies of the complex interplay of reflection as a powerful emblem of the unconscious mind. How reflection transforms into a vessel that objectively reflects an individual, connecting the two distinctive egos: the conscious ego on the outside and the unconscious ego within. Nkosi is fascinated by how the conscious and unconscious dynamics affect a woman’s perspective of herself and her identity. Nkosi uses metaphorically charged material such as ink and stamps which she uses to create grisaille textures and images. For Nkosi, the materials emerge as conscious, organic elements – powerful change agents that taint and authenticate every surface they come into contact with. Ink and stamps make a permanent impression on any surface they come in contact with. Nkosi sees the teachings of parents imprinted on the child, to be like ink and stamps leaving an indelible mark, forever shaping their sense of self.
Nkosi received a Diploma at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa in 2014. A solo exhibition of her work was organized at Gallery One, Keyes Art Mile, Rosebank, South Africa (2024). Recent Art Fair exhibitions featuring her work include the RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Shepstone Gardens, South Africa (2025), EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (2025), RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Shepstone Gardens, South Africa (2023), Turbine Art Fair, Rosebank, South Africa (2022). Recent group exhibitions featuring her work include Unspoken Codes, Common Names, Art Share, Los Angeles, California (2025), Forewomen, Gallery MOMO, Parkwood, Johannesburg, South Africa (2024), Salon Collectables, Art and About Gallery, Sandton, South Africa (2022), Reshape, Latitudes online (2022), Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa (2022), Sempiternal Summer, Lizamore and Associates, Johannesburg, South Africa (2021), RMB Talent Unlocked, Everard Read Circa Gallery, Rosebank, South Africa (2021), The feminine is political, Fierce Pop, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017), WOMXN, Molo Songololo, Cape Town, South Africa (2017), AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2016).
Nkosi has received several prestigious awards including the ANNA Award, RMB Talent Unlocked, and a finalist for the Sasol New Signatures.
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