UJ Arts & Culture’s #METAMORPHOSIS
Drawing inspiration from the theme of #METAMORPHOSIS has seen UJ Arts & Culture plan to change more than its content. The 2018 programme features two new festivals as well as
Africa’s young artists called to ‘Give art life’ and enter 2018 Absa L’Atelier art competition
For thousands of artists across Africa whose creativity is their livelihood, art gives life. Now, the continent’s flagship visual arts competition for emerging artists, Absa L’Atelier, is asking these artists
Absa Gallery hosts first-ever group exhibition of all Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award winners
Gerard Sekoto is widely recognised as the pioneer of black South African art. He changed the narrative of how the work and lives of black South African artists would be
Powerful voices reclaiming their spaces
Photographer Manyatsa Monyamane from South Africa has won the Third Merit Award at the 2017 Absa L’Atelier. Manyatsa Monyamane (b.1989) graduated with a BTech (Photography) from Tshwane University of Technology,
Multimedia Works Shine at Barclays L’Atelier 2016
This year’s Barclays L’Atelier has proven to be one of the most strongly contested editions of the annual contemporary art competition. With a fresh pool of young African artists significantly raising previous benchmarks, the 2016