Josephine Grindrod: To Look with Quiet Eyes
Lookout L1
"My body of paintings and collages draw on selected objects from my 1970’s childhood home in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, acquired from the well-known African Art Centre which sold items handcrafted by men and women seeking to supplement their livelihoods. Amongst these artefacts were Rorke’s Drift tapestries and prints, clay beer pots and wooden meat platters, beaded sculptures and items of clothing, carvings and woven telephone-wire containers."
-Josephine Grindrod
Selwyn Steyn: Static Land Stills
Tomorrows/Today TT5
Titled STATIC LAND STILLS, Steyn’s project for Tomorrows/Today 2026 brings together a new body of paintings that engage with the urban landscape of Johannesburg and the wider Gauteng region. Rendered in dust-laden tones of muted orange, pale brown, and grey, the city appears immediately recognisable yet subtly estranged: austere, stripped of spectacle or consolation. Roads, bridges, municipal buildings, quarries, peripheral fields, and dense urban grids recur across the small-format paintings, which are installed in a dense grid built in cardboard - the same material architects use to construct maquettes. Here, however, the structure evokes the logic of a surveillance control room.
Tommaso Fiscaletti - Everything never was
Cabinet/Record
"During my journey through the north and south of Tunisia, visiting different realities, plantations, factories, small businesses, that link the two countries, it became essential to listen to the stories of the people I met, to let me be guided by the places themselves, or by individual details that quietly emerged." - Tommaso Fiscaletti
Katherine Spindler Living Images
There is an eloquence in the rough draft, in the unrehearsed act.
As artists we make to find our way. We make to see, to feel, to move through. Much like we do in speaking, or in writing, we can surprise ourselves with what we say we see. To paint is to speak, as well as to listen.
Cathy Abraham: A Shifted Season
With a light touch and tongue-in-cheek approach, which are key to his art practice, Coljin Strydom lifts motifs and fragments from the Odyssey to situate and make sense of his own position as wanderer/wonderer. In his reflection on themes of belonging, desire, and intimacy, fantasy and reality are playfully interwoven, with Cape Town reimagined as a local Ogygia — as a contemporary paradise (or prison, depending on your perspective or access to its abundance).
Ulriche Jantjes • In the midst
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024
In the midst is a body of work portraying moments of pause in an ever-changing world.
To be “in the midst” is to be in the middle of an activity or space. It is a moment or place of flux. The paintings and monotypes explore this in-betweenness through interior scenes that are juxtaposed with expansive exteriors. A figure peering out of the window. A landscape with a deep blue pool. By pairing inside scenes with the outside world, In the midst brings forth an element of reflection.
Selwyn Steyn • Studies from the In-between
This body of work is about Gauteng, and perception and atmosphere and the built environment and a bunch of other things as well.
The light in Gauteng is of a particular quality. Something between gold (like that which is extracted) and yellow (like the extraction’s detritus). Something between aurum and uranium. Treasure and toxicity. This is particularly so of the winter light, which is a potpourri of dust and carbon and altitude and veld and gold.
Marsi van de Heuvel • skoonveld
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023
Through this work Marsi explores the idea of belonging to a place, a family and a culture by investigating and reinterpreting the photographs taken by her maternal grandmother and other family members during apartheid.
Colijn Strydom • The Bacchae of Buitenkant
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022
"Themes of fragmentation and fluidity are reflected in a combination of image, text, tactility and performance, and a mix of media that includes drawing, painting and photography."