Tag : South Africa
Artists
David's brother was killed in a 1985 anti-apartheid demonstration in the Cape Town townships in South Africa. This tragedy has resulted in 'Mama Let Me Go', a series of three linocuts. The first features a distraught mother trying to prevent her son, who is looking out of the window at a passing...
Walter Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress. When he married Albertina in 1944, Nelson Mandela was his best man. Like Mandela, Walter was jailed for life in 1964, serving 26 years behind bars. Marina has unveiled this public sculpture on...
Art for Humanity invited 25 women artists and 25 poets, primarily from South Africa and the developing world, to create public works of art to inspire moral ownership of the rights of the child. Their aim is for each poem to be translated into all South African languages, to promote multilingualism...
This collage piece represents an appeal to the government, the law and community forums to look deeply into the issue of women and child abuse in South Africa. The artist explains how he has 'disfigured' his characters within the picture to symbolise the state of the souls of victimised women and...
David’s work documents the positive results of adherence and access to Anti Retro Viral treatment for HIV/AIDS. His photographs capture the colour, optimism, hope and strength of those he portrays to try and empower both subject and viewer. A change, he believes, from the usual representations of...
Research commissioned for ‘The Lost Girls of South Africa’ found that a young girl born in South Africa is more likely to be raped than she is to complete secondary education. Deborah and Xoliswa were determined to tell the story of some of these victims of sexual abuse in a way that truly...
Integrated dance (abled and disabled dancer performing together) is one of the newest art forms in South Africa – and Remix Dance Company are one of the leading practitioners. ‘LovAffair’ had its world premiere at one of the most prestigious venues in Cape Town; a union of dance, drama,...
Rachel is an artist whose work is energetic, fragile and raw; not least due to her severe visual impairment. She strives to reach out across the world to share her creativity and facilitate opportunities for vulnerable individuals to be heard through creative collaboration. This ongoing project...
