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Ekene Ijeoma

Artist • Interaction Designer • Social Entrepreneur

Brooklyn-based Ekene Ijeoma is a socially-focused interdisciplinary artist and designer who uses data to translate overlooked facts into informed feelings. >
Robin Erispe

Artist

This 20-something illustrator takes inspiration from everything visual - and that which is not visual, he interprets in a visual way. >
Robin Rhode

Artist

Berlin-based South African artist Robin Rhode uses public space as a stage for his highly visual work. >
Mohau Modisakeng

Artist • Sculptor

Mohau Modisakeng is a South African multidisciplinary visual artist. >
Loyiso Mkize

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Loyiso Mkize is a Cape Townian visual artist and painter. >
Lernert & Sander

Artist • Filmmaker

Dutch artists and filmmakers Lernert & Sander are known for their installations and high-conceptual art films. >
Jabu Nadia Newman and The Foxy Five

Artist • Filmmaker • Photographer

Jabu Nadia Newman is a South African artist who works through the mediums of photography and film. She is also the creator of The Foxy Five webseries. >
Koen Vanmechelen

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Conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen explores the importance of biocultural diversity, identity and community in his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. >
maria elena baumann illustration

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An old fashioned, watercolours-on-paper illustrator >
Olafur Eliasson

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Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards. >
Naama Schendar

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Multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar explores identity and individuality through constructed methods of experiencing empathy. >
Tony Gum

Artist • Photographer

Tony Gum, named by Vogue as the "coolest girl in Cape Town", is an artist in learning. >
Francois Knoetze

Artist • Performance Artist • Sculptor

Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. His work traces the life cycles of discarded objects. >
FOS

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Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, who works under the alias FOS, creates unusual spaces that rely on human interaction to really come to life. >
Danielle Clough

Art Director • Artist

Using vintage tennis rackets, old coffee bags and other second-hand waste, Danielle Clough is breaking the mould of contemporary art. >
Helen Isibor-Epega

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Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise The Venus Bushfires, is a Nigerian-born, London-raised composer, singer-songwriter and performance artist. >
SA Comics

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SA Comics is a showcase of local cartooning and features the work of a diverse range of artists from all over South Africa. >
Pure Creation

Artist • Product Designer

Pure Creation is a Cape Town-based creative business owned by Alan and Nadine Marola. >
Lionel Smit

Artist

Lionel Smit is a Cape Town-based artist best known for his monumental paintings and sculptures. >
Unathi Mkonto

Architect • Artist • Fashion Designer

Unathi Mkonto is a multidisciplinary artist bordering the lines between fashion and architecture. >
The Tretchikoff Project

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Natasha Swift and Ari Lazaris have created a range of products spun off from artist Vladimir Tretchikoff's famous paintings. >
Rudi de Wet

Artist • Graphic Designer

Rudi de Wet is a graphic artist based in Cape Town who creates bold, colourful works. >
Jordan Metcalf

Artist • Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Typographer

Jordan Metcalf is an award-winning designer, illustrator and artist based in Cape Town. >
Francois “Frank” van Reenen

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Frank van Reenen is a Cape Town-based artist creating works that explore the dichotomy of childhood. >

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