Deconstructing Dysphoria
Artwork by Angelo de Klerk and Lesedi Daniel Moleko TW: Gender Dysphoria Many people see being a transgender person as taboo or ‘wrong’, for many reasons, but they don’t think looking at the transitio…
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Mangled Muses
Artwork by Awonke Kwinana Rhamncwana: A rural guy who grew up in the outskirts of eRabula at Kieskammahoek (eQoboqobo), always living in the shadow of his name Rhamncwana (Beast). He has a good pur…
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In Passing…
An Exhibition Review by Shameelah Khan and Aasif Bulbulia A few months ago, artists Cheriese Dilrajh and Hemali Khoosal invited Aasif Bulbulia to participate in a research project about the experience…
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Childs Sorrow
Artwork by Arabang Raditapole Painted onto a 102cm by 102cm gallery wrapped canvas. My painting is of a girl from Ethiopia, Suri tribe. Her ear lobes are stretched out where ear plates would go. Some…
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Artwork by Awonke
by Awonke Kwinana I practice with ballpoint pen, string art, paint, and digital art. My orthodox approach to the September “Heritage” theme doesn’t focus on our ethnic groups but on what ties us…
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Beauty
Artwork by Gloria Shoki Zamorka (Black Girl) is an 1895 oil on canvas portrait of a black woman, by the Slovenian artist Anton Azbe. Painted in the style of realism, Azbe viewed the painting as being …
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Artist of the Month: Kamyar Bineshtarigh
Art Feature by Aaliyah Ahmed Meet our artist of the month who uses language as his raw material. Kamyar Bineshtarigh was born in 1996 in Semnan, Iran. He currently lives and works in Cape Town, South …
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Art of November
Artwork By Jade Wilson – 17 years old I created these pieces to arouse euphoric feelings and emotions in a person and to communicate a sense of beauty from the feeling of November and of life it…
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Excogitation
By Joseph Aimanesi Title: Excogitation Medium: Mixed media on FBB (Charcoal, Acrylic, Poster colour, Coloured pencils) Style: Afro-Futurism I don’t have all that it takes to face L.I.F.E., bu…
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Odd Artist of the Month: Gabriela Houston
To my daughter by the riverside Don’t fret, baby, the rusalka won’t harm you She has her own problems now The river waters are too murky For her to see the autumn sun
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Odd Artist of the Month: Awonke Kwinana
Anticipation through Six Ballpoint Artworks Awonke Kwinana presents six abstract portraits depicting renditions of what effect anticipation can have on one’s visage. Siganeko – A Xhosa boy born …
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Odd Artist of the Month: Eloosh
I have – specifically in the past year due to covid – shifted from one medium to the next, exploring a different way of being able to express my emotions and ideals. The anxiety created because of the…
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Odd Artist of the Month: Hanul Lee
Twenty Stories High, Spinning with the Devil, Blind The day after New Year’s 2021, my new Master (BDSM) and I explored magic mushrooms in a cabin surrounded by nature. It was our first time mixing shr…
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Odd Artist of the Month: Monde Mabaso
Monde Mabaso, also known as Mr HighArt, is a 28-year-old illustrator and has been in the art space for as long as he could remember. He started his career at the National School of the Arts from a ten…
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Artist of the Month: Johara Hartley
My work has a broad range of subject matter, as I chop, change and adapt, both outwardly and inwardly. As a young woman, I find my way in the art world by playfully and consciously creating space, r…
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Odd Artist of the Month: Chané Isaacs
In 2011, I made the decision to study a BA degree in Communication Design, and from that point onward my life has been filled with countless moments of creating and simultaneously dismantling my own t…
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Odd Artist of The Month: Nontokozo Dladla
Pleasure and Ontology: Nontokozo Dladla I am a self-taught abstract artist who grew up in Tembisa, a township in the east of Johannesburg where abstract art is a foreign concept to many, or rather, is…
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Odd Artist of the Month: Puleng Mongale
Puleng Mongale was born in 1991 in Orlando East, Soweto. She matriculated in 2009 and went on to attain a General BA, majoring in English and Communication Science at the University of South Africa. I…
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Odd Artist of the Month: Dembe Fiona Davhana
Biography of Dembe Fiona Davhana Dembe Fiona Davhana is a 23-year-old artist who was born in Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province. She lived in Venda for six years before moving to Johannesburg to stay with …
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AFROFUTURISM DIALOGUE
By Bolelang John Leepile Afrofuturism is a popular term among black writers, artists, philosophers and cultural practitioners in the African Diaspora. Coined in the 1980s by black scholars through a s…
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19 Corvids
By Tucker Lieberman Tucker Lieberman is the author of Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty. His photographs have recently appeared in a dozen journals including Barren, Crack the Spine, and L’Éphémè…
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Artist of the Month: Arabang Raditapole
BIOGRAPHY Arabang Raditapole is best known for her colourful Abstract paintings, Spontaneous realism portraits and Pop art. She is an upcoming South African Contemporary artist who was born and raised…
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Introducing: Zachary McGowan
Odd Art Pieces By Zachary McGowan Zachary McGowan is a 17 year old artist.
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Shuttered Reality
An Artistic Expression By Mongezi Ncombo Mongezi Ncombo’s body of work is an experimental illustration which examines the intersecting movement by the people during migration, tracing their simi…
