July in Johannesburg is still stubbornly committed to winter and so, weaning myself off the performance high that was the National Arts Festival in June, I spend most of the month seeking refuge in the city’s galleries, theatres, make-shift museums, and malls-turned-art-fairs. *** The city
The Turbine Art Fair (TAF) is headed into its second decade, and is celebrating this milestone with a move to its new home. The art fair takes place at Hyde Park Corner this year from 27 to 30 July 2023. TAF has become known as
It’s been a dark and cold July in Johannesburg, but here’s a bit of good news: the Turbine Art Fair (TAF) is back and taking place from 21 to 24 July 2022. For those not familiar with the TAF, it’s a local art fair focussed
The Turbine Art Fair (TAF) is back this year and runs from 1 – 3 October 2021. The fair will take place physically in Johannesburg at 10 Fricker Road, Illovo, and virtually via Artsy and www.turbineartfair.co.za. Thirty exhibitors from Southern Africa, a host of special
The Turbine Art Fair (TAF) has announced new dates for its 2021 iteration, the TAF ARCADE. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been decided to reschedule TAF 21 to 30 September – 3 October 2021. ‘The last year and a half has been one
UPDATE: TAF21 has announced a change of dates to its 2021 event. Full details here. The Turbine Art Fair (TAF) has announced that the 2021 edition of the art fair will be a hybrid virtual and physical event taking place in September. The physical iteration
Collectors and art-enthusiasts alike can now browse the works of contemporary South African artists online through TAF Paper. Launched in 2020 by Turbine Art Fair (TAF), Paper is a series of contemporary artworks on paper by independent artists from Southern Africa. TAF invited artists who are currently
RMB Turbine Art Fair is going online in 2020 from 27 August to 2 September. The fair will open to the public on 28 August. They are thrilled to welcome their newest exhibitors and special projects to the RMB TAF community in order to bring
Tammy Greer is a writer and Creative Feel’s recently appointed Editor. Welcome to our July issue! It’s hard to believe that we are already entering the second half of 2019. The July issue is always one of my favourites to work on. For
Olivié Keck’s vibrant artworks are as appealing to the eye as they are thought-provoking. Her most recent exhibition, Drop Dead Gorgeous, was accompanied by the Virtual Reality experience Ophelia Forever. We spoke to Keck to find out a bit more about her art, which you
Strauss & Co is proud to present the third in a series of museum-quality exhibitions (Anton Taljaard: Pierneef, A Collector’s Passion (2017) and Life Force: The Still Lifes of Irma Stern (2018)) at RMB Turbine Art Fair (TAF), focusing this year on two prominent South
Juan Stockenstroom’s intuitive, streetwise, mixed-media paintings are a far cry from the process-driven lino cuts of his Model C high school art classes. Fed the inexpensive medium as a mono diet, one senses that the only lino he wants anything to do with now is
The seventh edition of the RMB Turbine Art Fair (RMB TAF) is coming up next month, and will be the most substantial Fair yet. Since its inception in 2013, RMB TAF has grown extensively year on year, and will be held from 12 to 14
First launched publicly at the Turbine Art Fair 2018 in Johannesburg as The Immortal Nekkies, John-Michael Metelerkamp’s Nekkies will be exhibited with Candice Berman Fine Art Gallery at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019 – showing for the first time in Cape Town. In
Since its inception in 2013, the RMB Turbine Art Fair has unfailingly offered visitors an opportunity to view and buy quality artwork from emerging and established talent in a fun and un-daunting way with great live music, artisan food, all curated within the heritage building
Sponsored by RMB Private Bank, the talks at this year’s RMB Turbine Art Fair are guaranteed to make you THINK. One of the most exciting art walkabouts on this year’s schedule is ‘THINK fun – Art that tickles my fancy’ by comedian John
Artist Proof Studio is one of the most successful visual arts education facilities in South Africa, producing top-quality artists and printmakers who are respected worldwide. They are leaders in fine art printmaking excellence, specialising in arts training, print collaborations, partnerships, sales and distribution of prints.
The 2018 instalment of the Turbine Art Fair (TAF) will continue to do what it does best, and focus on the celebration of emerging African art, artists and collectors. Having partnered with TAF since its inception, Strauss & Co Fine Art Auctioneers have
With the annual RMB Turbine Art Fair coming up, Creative Feel has put together a list of few things that we’re most looking forward to at #TAF18. ‘THINK fun – Art that tickles my fancy’ One of the most exciting art walkabouts on this year’s
Since its inception in 2013, the Turbine Art Fair (TAF) has grown into one of the highlights on the visual art calendar. Valued by art lovers, investors and art galleries, the Art Fair aims to make art more accessible by hosting talk programmes, partnering with
Lore Watterson is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Creative Feel Magazine In a recent editor’s note I talked about cultural tourism and, after spending the last long weekend with a number of international tourists in a conservation-sensitive Karoo destination, I believe more than ever that we could
At a gala event held at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery on the evening of 4 April 2018, upcoming young artist Chris Soal was announced as the overall winner of the PPC Imaginarium Awards 2018. The 24-year-old sculptor, a fine arts graduate from the
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of FirstRand Bank Limited, has partnered with Turbine Art Fair as the headline sponsor. The RMB Turbine Art Fair is a unique South African arts festival that brings together galleries and artists from around the country to
Ever since its inception, the PPC Imaginarium Awards has showcased some of South Africa’s top rising talent in art and design. Each year, the judging of the competition falls to a panel of formidable experts, including critics, artists, designers, curators and researchers. This
In an exciting collaboration, two top platforms for emerging creatives, The PPC Imaginarium and KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts (KZNSA) Gallery, will be hosting a pop-up exhibition of this year’s Durban-based finalists for the PPC Imaginarium Awards on 5 March 2018. Held at the KZNSA
The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, in partnership with Strauss & Co and Everard Read, are delighted to announce that the winner for the 2018 Cassirer Welz Award is Richard Specs Ndimande. Since its inception this award has seen the winners launch their careers and really