Now in its sixth year, The Artsy Vanguard is Artsy's annual list of the most promising artists working today. 

Teniqua Crawford exhibits at Vennice Biennale, Breasts exhibition alongside artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman.

For RMB Latitudes Art Fair 2024 Lucinda Mudge pairs her captivating vases with fragrances by cult French fragrance brand Frédéric Malle.

American journalist and social activist, Gloria Steinem, celebrated her 90^th birthday with the launch of the Gloria Steinem Foundation in New York City. Steinem describes the Foundation as “an incubator for activism.”

Deborah Bell’s Unearthed III bronze figure sits in the heart of the Foundation’s newly renovated gardens. Following Steinem’s first encounter with the sculpture a decade ago in South Africa, friends and colleagues worked behind the scenes to find and bring the sculpture to NYC to mark this milestone.

NBC New York profiled the launch of the Foundation and the unveiling of the sculpture in a news reel available to view here.

Tanya Poole works with Oxford University for their "The PANORAMIC PRINCIPLE" exhibition to create portraits that honour the participants, researchers, and medical professionals that were involved in Oxford's PANORAMIC and PRINCIPLE COVID-19 trials.

Everard Read will exhibit works by leading and emerging artists at EXPO Chicago 2024.

April 11–14, 2024
Navy Pier
Chicago

Everard Read Cape Town launches Blessing Ngobeni's latest book Ntsumi Ya Vutomi and exhibits his new work.

Blessing Ngobeni exhibits work in LA Frieze 2024

Brett Murray talks to the Financial Mail about his new exhibition at Everard Read Johannesburg, February 2024

Link to the full article HERE.

Brett Seiler talks about his work to Clemens Müller for Kennich magazine. 

Brett Murray has launched his new book, Limbo. 

The book encompasses Murray's 2021 solo exhibition with Everard Read London. 

Teresa Kutala Firmino’s family history is a complex one, with both sets of her grandparents having fled civil war. Firmino was born to a Congolese father and an Angolan mother in 1993 in Pomfret, a town in the North West province of South Africa, where many of the former soldiers of the country’s 32 Battalion—a unit of the South African army founded in 1975 that fought in Angola—settled after the Angolan war. 

Lionel Smit's new book Transitions has been released.

The work of South African artist, Gerhard Marx, featured at a symposium at the Courtauld Institute in London in June 2023. 'The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects' foregrounded such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they are created, seen and read.

South African artist, Lady Skollie’s exhibition as this year’s Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts, launched in June 2023 at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, South Africa.

In this video, Lady Skollie discusses how, in this body of work the hole or cave becomes a metaphor for tackling the complexity of Brown identities in South Africa.

The exhibition will tour across South Africa over the next year, taking powerful art and important ideas to diverse communities.

Nandipha Mntambo has been featured in the BBC documentary, Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch. 

Wilma Cruise had been selected as Festival Artist for the Stellenbosch Woordfees art festival 2023 in October. 

Dylan Lewis | Recent Leopard Maquettes

The unveiling of Lionel Smit’s Morphous as a permanent installation in Kennedy Plaza, Providence known as The Creative Capital on November 28, 2022 was made possible by the American Recovery Protection Act in collaboration with The Avenue Concept,  Mayor of Providence, Jorge O. Elorza and PVD Art Culture and Tourism.

Muloongo Muchelemba takes a tour of our WINTER 2022|23 Exhibition.

Congratulations to Lady Skollie, winner of the 2022 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Arts.

Bronze, Steel and Stone at Riverhill Himalayan Gardens features in the July Edition of Kent Life Magazine.

This outdoor sculpture exhibition continues the gallery’s practice of presenting sculpture in spectacular landscapes where they can be appreciated in a natural setting.

June 1 – September 25, 2022.

This summer, The National Horseracing Museum will be exhibiting a series of paintings by John Meyer about Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, in her Platinum Jubilee year. Comprising 11 paintings about Her Majesty, the collection explores her life from childhood to Sovereign focusing on her love of country, family, horses and corgis and her dedication to her duty.

An exquisite example of South African artist, Nic Bladen's botanical bronze sculptures is currently on show in an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, running from June to September 2022.

Press: | Brett Murray talks with Caterina Pereira and Alexander Matthews of Tongues.cc about free speech, social media and his latest exhibition with Everard Read London, Limbo.

Sat in the gallery of Everard Read London, the pair talk through the colour and light of South Africa that comes through in the artist’s paintings, the poetic titles of Let there be Light, and the musical inspiration behind the work.

‘Well this work here at the Everard Read gallery absolutely sings with life and you can hear the music, you can see the figures dancing to it and moving to it, the colour just pops out at you’.

Okuro uses Fleeting Moment, an artwork made for Hartslief’s recent exhibition with Everard Read London, Shadows and Reflections, to discuss the decisions we make in the quiet moments of the everyday –

‘I love the quiet, dimly lit painting “Fleeting Moment”, by contemporary South African artist Sasha Hartslief. She employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into — because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.

In “Fleeting Moment”, a slim, solitary woman stands in a pocket of a softly lit room with her back to us. Everything is painted in soft hues of brown, yellow and green. The woman’s hands are on her waist and her head is slightly bent. Her posture suggests a certain disquiet. Pausing to stand in the middle of the room reveals she’s lost in thought about something. Whatever it is, it is likely to require a decision from her on what to say or do next.’

Having walked through Bailey’s Let there be Light at Boughton House with the artist, Forbes travel and culture contributor, Joanne Shurvell writes –

‘The works at Boughton House and in the London gallery are eclectic, both in themes and materials used, which include enamel, oil and house paint and varnishes. The paintings show figures within imaginary landscapes yet there is a strong link to Beezy’s South African heritage with near extinct African animals in the paintings and a common motif is spheres representing fallen angels. These fallen angels can be seen as representative of the country Beezy came from as well as of those whose actions have contributed to the problems of our planet as a whole. These fallen angels are transformed into bronze sculptural works reminiscent of Alberto Giacometti, including the upside down angel sculpture on the lawn, in a brilliant Yves Klein blue. Beezy Bailey describes his art as “balm for a mad world” and we can all use some of that.’

As part of a continuing series showcasing the best of London’s public and commercial art exhibitions,  Chaundy considers how the South African multi-media artist has come to exhibit at the ‘English Versailles’.

From learning to draw at the Byam Shaw School of Art through to exhibiting in New York with Dave Matthews, the podcast reveals how Bailey’s fascinating encounters and experiences have made him the established artist that he is today.

With the backdrop of two concurrent exhibitions in London and Boughton House, the article explores Bailey’s journey to becoming one of SA’s most prolific and interesting artists.

“I’m a peddler of beauty. That’s my job. It might sound a bit corny, but I try to find light and magic in my work. This has been an ongoing theme throughout my life.”

Sothebys select renowned painter and sculptor, Guy Ferrer, to feature in the current issue of International Realty: France | Monaco. 

The article comments on Re-Vival's quest for meaning in a world in which we are constantly challenged by the unknown - 

'International painter and sculptor, Guy Ferrer negotiates with matter, convinced that you get what you give. His approach oriented towards the symbolic quest always leaves for intuition and chance. "It is a subtle relationship, harmony is temperamental and when it is revealed in a work of art, it is always a surprise because I do not pretend to master what will emerge from my tools"'.

Gordon Glyn-Jones selects six exhibitions across the world to highlight how African art and culture are enriching people’s lives on an international stage.

Glyn-Jones heralds Daniel Naudé’s patience and consideration in creating The Bovine Prophecy – 

‘Over a period of ten years, Naudé travelled to the beaches of the Wild Coast, South Africa, to photograph the indigenous cattle that frequent these shores. The process called for patience, with Naudé scouting the area, waiting for a particular animal to be in just the right place at the right time. The shutter release would signal that moment when Naudé would, after careful consideration, transform the animal into an iconic image’.

Daniel Naudé’s The Bovine Prophecy features in ‘African Art: South African artists making a global impact’ for TheSouthAfrican.

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Photography courtesy of the artist.

During November 2021 Jeffrey Deitch and Black Rock Senegal present Self-Addressed, an exhibition of self-portraits by contemporary African artists curated by American artist, Kehinde Wiley. For this landmark exhibition, Wiley invited a selection of contemporary African artists living throughout the world to each produce a self-portrait. Together these portraits present a new exploration of identity, perception, and self-regard within the global stage through the lens of figuration, exploring notions of perspective, authorship and control within acts of expression that directly address the self. The exhibition of self-portraits offers an examination of the myth of the monolithic ‘Africa’ and an exploration of contemporary artists’ visual definitions of what it means to be ‘African’ or ‘of Africa.’

Teresa Kutala Firmino’s self-portrait The Imagined Self was selected to be included in this exhibition. Her portrait is concerned with the life-changing event she recently underwent with the premature birth of her first child, the physical changes to her body and the psychological impact of becoming a mother.

Bob Chaundy interviews Brett Murray in the final week of Limbo at Everard London. Last chance to view 1st November.⁠
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The pair discuss Murray’s upbringing in apartheid-era South Africa, his political activism and use of satire, his early work and setting up the Stellenbosch University sculpture department, before turning their attention to this recent body of work that strikes a more empathetic tone and sees the artist looking inwards, towards his family and his role as a father. The podcast continues Chaundy’s series of Considering Art interviews which explore the best of London’s commercial and public art exhibitions through conversation with the artists.⁠

PRESS: Interior Designer Sophie Ashby’s bold take on South African couple’s London House features in House & Garden’s ‘Houses by our top 100 interior designers’.

The South London house, inspired by the colours of the bushveld, is complimented by a marvellous collection of contemporary South African art featuring works by Sanell Aggenbach, Sasha Hartslief and Daniel Naudé.

Image credit: Alexander James

Designer: Studio Ashby

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Watch an interview with Brett Murray, on the occassion of his solo Limbo at Everard Read London.

Watch an interview with Philip Barlow, on the occassion of his solo exhibition slowing a split second at Everard Read London.

MANDELA: A LIFE'S JOURNEY
A collaboration with artist John Meyer and Everard Read's CIRCA Gallery

To honour Mandela Day celebrations on Sunday 18 July, Rand Merchant Bank collaborated with artist John Meyer and Everard Read's CIRCA Gallery to create a virtual tour of Meyer’s series of paintings which portray the life and times of Nelson Mandela. 
 

Video Credits: Rand Merchant Bank

Sculptor and painter, Guy Ferrer is a humanist at heart, fascinated by the range of possibilities of existing and past cultures.

In a new exhibition in Perpignan, France, Ferrer gives us his ethereal vision of the deep nature of man. Our insatiable quest for hedonism and materiality is confronted with an innate need to see further and higher in another sphere which touches the divine.

The exhibition, entitled De la matière à l'esprit (From Matter to Spirit), celebrates the multidisciplinary nature of Ferrer’s practice and is presented across three locations - large paintings at the Contemporary Art Centre of the City of Perpignan, bronze sculpture at the Hyacinthe Rigaud Art Museum in the vestibule of the Perpignan Town Hall, and drawings at the Castang Art Project gallery. The exhibition continues until October 2021.

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Watch the Summer 2021 exhibition tour below..

OBITUARY: VELAPHI MZIMBA
1959 - 2021

MZIMBA USED HIS BRUSH AND CANVAS TO RESTORE THE DIGNITY AND STATURE OF AFRICANS

By his first solo exhibition in 1981 at the Carlton Hotel, a gallery run by the South African Association of Arts, 22 year old Velaphi Mzimba, had found a voice to contribute to the struggle for a humane and equitable South Africa.

At the height of the struggle against apartheid when African people were essentially stripped of their humanity and their identity – Mzimba used his brush and canvas to restore their dignity and stature. There was a familiarity with his subjects who were inspired by his curiosity about the different African ethnic groups across the continent.

At the peak of his career in the 80’s and 90’s, when Africans were not allowed around the table beyond their township homes but ‘good enough’ to be the help like his mother Violet, who was a domestic worker in the suburbs and his father Peter who was a driver, Mzimba put them in these ‘hallowed’ spaces – the homes, boardrooms and hotels of the ‘oppressor’ who were enamored by them. While most of these collectors superficially saw the ‘artistry’ in the work, through the familiar eyes of an Mzimba portrait, which gazed at one in such a particular way that afterwards you feel as if you are being followed, seemed to emphasize that whatever was being done behind these walls was under a hawkish watch.

To the marginalized majority, there was a familiarity as if one had encountered the person before. They saw themselves in his work. Mzimba dared to challenge the oppressor and showed that Africans were human too. He restored their humanity – an gave them a face. He celebrated their identity, their deep melanin and way of life – dark, textured and colourful. In between, he would depict how they escaped the misery of oppression through music or went about their work in the midst of the oppression – in his celebrated work depicting the Zama Zama miners (illegal gold miners) and township life.

He would find objects that represent African lives – the discarded metal basin, shovel, doors, corrugated roofs, used clothing – anything – and bring them alive by juxtaposing or superimposing his work in his compositions. It was tangible and constant reminder of the African struggle. He would use his brush to make them larger than life, and subjects as seemingly mundane at face value as fruit or vegetables – an apple, orange, cabbage or beetroot - or bring all together in one of his familiar compositions.

A humble, quiet and relatable artist, this is how he took on the struggle for liberation against apartheid - through his work, which infused optimism, humanity and dignity. That is his legacy.

Born in Dube, Soweto on the 19th September 1959, Mzimba was the only boy and the 4th born child of the late Violet (neé Mabuza) and Peter Mzimba. He discovered his love of drawing at an early age and was encouraged by his father. He dropped out of school due to the 1976 uprising when the school was closed.

At the age of sixteen he joined Mofolo Arts Centre in Soweto where he learned drawing, oil painting and pastels with Dan Rakgoathe. years later he won a bursary to study at the Art Foundation under the late Bill Ainslie. An award-winning and revered artist across various media, he worked as a professional artist based in Johannesburg until his sudden death.

At the time of his passing, he was working on a seminal collection celebrating great African women with his longstanding gallerist Everard Read. Mzimba's work graces many public, corporate and private collections worldwide.

Mzimba passed on unexpectedly on 24 June due to Covid in the arms of his wife Boitumelo while waiting to be attended at hospital.

Mzimba is survived by his wife, Boitumelo, children – Tebogo “Tebs,” Lesedi, Khanyi, Siphesihle “Malobisa,” Seti and Fili, his siblings, Betty, Julia and Sbongile and the Mzimba Family.

Thebe Ikalafeng
Pan-African reputation architect, explorer and writer
@thebeikalafeng

Chthonios Monumental I (2020)

The initial manifestation of Dylan Lewis’s Chthonios – a striking image of a maelstrom of forms – emerged following a six-year period of intense self-discovery. Perfectly encompassing the themes of self-actualisation, struggles within human relationships, and striving for liberation from harmful internalised indoctrination, the work concretises the turbulence of human emotions.

During lockdown in 2019, Lewis set to work on producing a monumental incarnation of an earlier work, allowing it to evolve intuitively and organically rather than through exact reproduction. The result is a visceral large-scale sculptural work which recalls Rodin’s magnum opus The Gates of Hell and William Blake’s The Lovers’ Whirlwind. Both of these saw the artists drawing on the evocative imagery of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, but vehemently eschewing any moralising allegory in favour of celebrating the full spectrum of the human experience in all its complexity. With Chthonios, Lewis extends this striking, chaotic imagery to reflect on the agony and ecstasy of trying to connect with the ‘other’ – both other human beings and with the self.

Chthonios marks a significant culmination in the narratives that have underpinned Lewis’s work from the very beginning: the searching for wholeness and self-actualisation against forced familial, cultural, and social conformity. Lewis captures the sense of the sublime that comes from standing on a precipice and witnessing the tumult. It is a view from the eye of a storm, a reckoning with the prospect of being pummelled by a chaotic maelstrom of human emotions and being unsure of whether it will utterly destroy or bring about the intense desire for wholeness.

The sculpture takes the form of large circular arrangement enclosed within a square. This contrasting of the two shapes recurs throughout a diverse array of mandala traditions in a number of world religions, throughout alchemical symbolism, and even in Jungian analytical psychology. Common throughout these various incarnations is the idea of a circle within a square as a symbol of wholeness or totality, contrasting boundlessness with lucidity. This is exactly what Chthonios represents for Dylan Lewis.

_{Adapted from an original text by Tim Leibbrandt}

S-H 83 (3) Chthonios I Monumental I is part of Masterpiece Online 2021

Return of the Gods: The Ancient Ones (2015)

‘I don’t know if I summoned these figures, or they summoned me to make them. They just developed this enormous presence and I started thinking about the notion of the gods in Western society and how we view them as either myth or fantasy or new age. For me, these five figures are absolutely benevolent. I view them as forefathers. I believe that we are all gods, we have just forgotten, and we are stuck down here repeating old patterns and habitual addictions. The Ancient Ones are memories of what we were.’

‘I am often asked about the small figures emerging from the crown of their heads. I have begun to realise that for me they represent the revealing of the spiritual self. The fact that these sculptures have fully realised figures with whole bodies shows that they are spiritually evolved beings. The men have female figures on their heads and the women have male figures on their heads. So, they also represent a marriage of the masculine and feminine and an owning of the full self, the complete self.’

‘It took me years to realise that I was interested in art that can change the world. That intent and creation can alter one’s reality. And I believe that is what art was used for in many cultures. We just don’t see it that way in contemporary Western culture. For me, every single artwork is more of a spiritual discipline about inner transformation. My work is about spiritual transformation. I like to believe that other people will feel that as well. I cannot force it, but if it happens for me then I like to believe that it can happen for others too.’

Interview with Tim Leibbrandt, Artthrob, 2016

Return of the Gods: The Ancient Ones (2015) is part of Masterpiece Online 2021

Teresa Kutala Firmino, on the occassion of Manifestation Oku Yongola  | Manifestation of Wanting at Everard Read London, is interviewed by Bob Chaundy on an episode of the podcast Considering Art.

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Lucinda Mudge: Everything All The Time is listed, with an image of Sorry Sorry, in the Exhibition Diary section in the May edition of World of Interiors.

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Teresa Kutala Firmino: Manifestation Oku Yongola  |  Manifestation of Wanting at Everard Read London is highlighted as a top London art exhibition to see in April on Wallpaper*.

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Teresa Kutala Firmino and Blessing Ngobeni are the subject of an artist by Emma Crichton-Miller, with reference to Teresa Kutala Firmino's upcoming solo exhibition: Manifestation Oku Yongola | Manifestation of Wanting at Everard Read London, on Financial Times.

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Beezy Bailey: The Love Revolution at Everard Read Cape Town is reviewed by Emma Dollery on Daily Maverick.

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Florian Wozniak discusses the bronzes sculptures in his solo exhibition Dreamer | 30 Years of Sculpture.

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Watch the Nic Bladen | Botanical Studies in Bronze & Silver II and Tanya Poole | Undergrowth exhibition tours below...

Tanya Poole discusses the paintings in her solo exhibition Undergrowth.

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Nic Bladen discusses the bronzes sculptures in his solo exhibition Botanical Studies in Bronze & Silver II.

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Dylan Lewis discusses his Chthonios miniature bronzes as part of the Winter 2020 exhibition.

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Shany van den Berg discusses her paintings in Winter 2020 and the impact of the past year.

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Watch the WINTER 2020 exhibition tour below...

Andrzej Urbanski | Digital Frequencies at Everard Read London is the subject of a feature, with images, on The First News.

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ANDRZEJ URBANSKI | DIGITAL FREQUENCIES

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Everard Read's booth with Lady Skollie is highlighted in a feature entitled "What To See at the FNB Art Joburg Fair" on Daily Maverick.

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Lady Skollie, on the occasion of winning the 2020 FNB Art Prize, is the subject of a feature, with mention of her solo exhibition Bound at Eveard Read Cape Town, on The South African.

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Andrzej Urbanski's painting, which is currently installed in the Fresnaye family home, is pictured and featured on Visi Magazine.

Click here to read the read the full article and here to find out more information on Andrzej Urbanski | Digital Frequencies.

Everard Read is proud to to announce that Lady Skollie is the 10th FNB Art Prize recipient, joining a prestigious list of winners since the launch of the prize in 2011. The FNB Art Prize has since become one of the coveted visual art prizes on the African continent. In addition to a page on the online fair (taking place 6-18 November) and cash prize, Lady Skollie will be awarded an international residency to be booked in 2021-2022.

Lady Skollie (born Laura Windvogel) remarks on her win, “As someone who never fit in, someone who dropped out of art school, someone who only got South African representation at the age of 31, winning a local art prize makes me feel like my existence in it is validated.” Filled with bold colour, god-like figures and suggestive fruits, Lady Skollie’s work revolves around themes of gender, sex and the politics of lust, as well as her musings on identity.

“We are proud to announce Lady Skollie as the 10th FNB Art Prize winner. Her rendition of art has challenged societies norms to evolve; and be present through the many social challenges that we face. Art is an evolving medium and through the years the FNB Art Joburg platform has ensured that we continue to support and recognise talent across all art mediums. Congratulations Lady Skollie,” says Bonga Sebesho, Head of FNB Sponsorships.

Angus Taylor Immanence | Transcendence

9 October - 7th November

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Deborah Bell | Sentinels (2020)

3 September - 3 October

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Deborah Bell, on the occassion of Deborah Bell | Sentinels (2020) at Everard Read London, is interviewed by Bob Chaundy on an episode of the podcast Considering Art.

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Barbara Wildenboer is the subject of a feature, with reference to her upcoming solo exhibition in November 2020 with Circa Cape Town, on Colossal.

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Deborah Bell, on the occasion of Deborah Bell | Sentinels (2020) at Everard Read London, is the subject of an interview feature with Daniel Gauss on Wall Street International.

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Deborah Bell | Sentinels (2020) at Everard Read London is previewed by Chris Jenkins on Arts & Collections. 

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The Hermanus FynArts Festival has moved online and presents FynArts Select. This is a re-imagined and extended programme of the Hermanus FynArts festival, which includes a number selected events online.

Cape Town based artist, Beezy Bailey, has been chosen as this year's Festival Artist and will present a digital exhibition of several paintings and bronzes.

View interview with Frank Kilburn...  

Daniel Naudé has been selected as one of the award winners for the 6th edition of the Life Framer Photography Prize in the Youth-hood category. This is a unique photography competition and a renowned platform for discovering and exhibiting contemporary photography worldwide. 

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Blessing Ngobeni and Teresa Kutala Firmino are the subject of an artist profile by Kerri von Geusau on Nataal.

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SUMMER 2020

17 July - 26 August 2020

Everard Read London presents its annual SUMMER exhibition - new paintings and sculpture by 20 artists, primarily from South Africa and the diaspora, but also from England, France and Italy.

The exhibition includes work by established artists at the peak of their powers, as well as younger artists beginning to make their mark.

Most works have been made during the period of lockdown imposed in many countries around the world in response to the pandemic. While the rhythm of life has changed for many of us, days of isolation are the preserve of artists for most of the time. Even so, many artists have reflected on the silent skies, empty streets and stillness around them, amplified by the consoling swell of birdsong.

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On the occassion of Chaotic Pleasure, an online presentation of the artist's body of work for the National Arts Festival, Blessing Ngoebeni is the subject of an interview with Elme Strydom on The South African.

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AGAINST INTERPRETATION? 

1 June - 10 July 2020

SANELL AGGENBACH | BONITA ALICE | EMALIE BINGHAM | WILMA CRUISE  |  CLAUDE JAMMET | KILMANY-JO LIVERSAGE | TURIYA MAGADLELA | LUCINDA MUDGE | TANYA POOLE | LADY SKOLLIE

Everard Read London brings together 10 artists, living and working in South Africa and the diaspora, from a range of backgrounds, ages, ethnicities and artistic practices, for a group exhibition entitled Against Interpretation?

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INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
Essay by Wilma Cruise


1984 Fight or Flight: Apocalypse Now? Recycle Re-use Re-con(figure)

Cruise’s sculptures, etchings, drawings, and writing jointly thematise the process of making art — something both physical and mindful; involving materials near at hand, yet also artistic solutions that seem way out of reach...

INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
Q&A with Bonita Alice


We’re looking at your works which will be part of a group exhibition in London entitled Against Interpretation? Please tell us a bit about how these works came into being – what was the starting point?

What lies behind the Sorry Series is the idea that we are aware… that we know and see…. selectively. We select both consciously and unconsciously in order to protect ourselves from too much of that which challenges us or make us uncomfortable in some way...

INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
Q&A with Lucinda Mudge

We’re looking at your works which will be part of a group Exhibition in London entitled Against Interpretation? Please tell us a bit about how these works came into being – what was the starting point?

My pieces are natural developments in terms of my skill as a maker...

INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
Q&A with Kilmany-Jo Liversage


We’re looking at your works which will be part of a group exhibition in London entitled Against Interpretation? Please tell us a bit about how these works came into being – what was the starting point?

Portraying females as confrontational beings, eyeing the viewer with mistrust. Re-interpreting what being a female means in this century...

Lady Skollie, on the occassion of an online initiative at Everard Read Johannesburg, From the Archives, is the subject of a feature with images on Rosebank Killarney Gazette

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GUY FERRER - NEW PAINTINGS

Hours of isolation are the preserve of many artists for most of the time, but the past several weeks of confinement have been particularly fertile for French artist, Guy Ferrer. The days have been noticeably quieter around his studio in Perpignan where Ferrer continues his investigation into the duality of life and the universe, using his artistic practice to search for meaning and share his revelations with others.

Ferrer has always found solace, nourishment and indeed delight in his studio; a spiritual sanctuary and space for creation. “The studio for the artist, is surely the place they cherish above all others. ... It's an extension of oneself, it amplifies like a drum the tragicomedy that is the life of one dedicated to the unbelievable madness to create. This is where I spend most of my time, willing the next path of discovery, finding steppingstones towards progress and poetry - and flowers to offer to others.”

Rich in symbolism and characterised by highly textured surfaces, Ferrer’s work is deeply concerned with the numinous. His relentless energy comes from a spiritual necessity to make art which has given life to a thirty-year career of making paintings and sculpture that seem to vibrate with ethereal energy and which connect with audiences across countries and cultures.

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R 1.38 MILLION RAISED FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S SOLIDARITY FUND

EVERARD READ LAUNCHES SECOND DIGITAL EXHIBITION IN SUPPORT OF THE FUND
 
Everard Read galleries are humbled and delighted to announce that our digital exhibition, launched last week, raised almost R 1.4 million for South Africa's Solidarity Fund. 
 
Our heartfelt thanks to our artists and clients for their remarkable contribution.
 
For those who missed our Staring Straight to the Future exhibition, and the opportunity to acquire a work in support of the Solidarity Fund, today we are launching a second curated exhibition. Again, 50% of proceeds, after artist payments, will go directly to the Fund.

As the lockdown continues in South Africa and around the world, we hope that these digital exhibitions will continue to harness the generosity of our communities and make a small contribution towards protecting health workers at the front line and assisting those whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic.

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Liza Grobler is currently participating in a solo exhibition entitled Hard, but Soft taking place at the Glen Carlou Gallery in Stellenbosch. Curated by Pierre le Riche, this exhibition features artists who engage with the concept of surface design by showcasing textile-based works. 

Grobler is a South African artist who works with a variety of media, often exploring ideas that bring together physical, psychological spaces and historical and ecological scapes. Her practice is built around process; putting materiality and ephemerality of the objects and media she works with in tension. In 2016, she was a recipient of the Africa Centre Award and was commissioned by IZIKO Museums  to create a site-specific work for the National Gallery. Other career highlights include: a solo project for Cape Town International Art Fair (2017), a commissioned public artwork for Cape Town International Design Capital (2015) and the screening of her video work at both the ADDIS International Video Arts Festival (Ethiopia) and at MOFO for Forever Now (Tasmania and Deep Space, 2015).

Barbara Wildenboer is participating in the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK). Wildenboer will present a retrospective of her work that has been produced over the course of her last ten solo exhibitions.

The work showcased consists of collage, photo-and-paper-construction and digitally animated photographic sculpture. She uses a combination of analogue and digital processes to create work which explores phenomena such as temporality, fractal geometry and the interconnectedness of all living things. Using media images and information selected from various sources, Wildenboer constructs an alternate reality. The three dimensional paper works reflect on how humankind is affected by globalisation, economic upheavals, scarcity, political corruption, wars, epidemics and natural disasters.

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Bronze, Steel, Stone and Bone

28 February - 13 April 2020

The making of art is an act of hope – and sculpture in particular is a talisman for continuance.      - Antony Gormley

Everard Read London presents the fourth edition of its Bronze Steel and Stone exhibitions – a survey of contemporary sculpture from South Africa.

From the very small to the monumental, the works are crafted in seductively smooth or textured bronze, polished granite or burnished steel. Landmarks in space, these still, silent objects are also eloquent transmitters of human experience.

Participating artists include: Deborah Bell, Nic Bladen, Arabella Caccia, Wilma Cruise, Guy du Toit, Chonat Getz, Percy Konqobe, Beckwith Kraft, Jop Kunneke, William Peers,Lionel Smit, Angus Taylor and Florian Wozniak.

Turiya Magadlela, Liza Grobler, Lyndi Sales and Michael MacGarry are amongst the many artists participating in Iziko Museum's current exhibition entitled Materiality, which is on show until the 2 August 2020.  

Lionel Smit, on the occasion of his most recent exhibition Manipulated Image, is interviewed for VUE by Michael Scivoli. 

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Dylan Lewis's second solo exhibition, Chthonios, is subject of a feature by Ishani Chetty on House and Leisure. Chetty voted the exhibition as a 'must visit' within Cape Town. 

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Blessing Ngobeni is the subject of a feature titled "Black Artists to Know at Art Basel" on Paper Magazine

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Liza Grobler, at Context Miami, is named as one of the six rising art stars to catch in Miami by Andrew Sessa on the New York Post.

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Lady Skollie, on the occasion of Weakest Link, is the subject of an interview with Greg Thorpe from the Fourdrinier.

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Daniel Naudé will feature in the upcoming exhibition Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. 

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Lady Skollie is chosen as one of Glamour SA's Women of the Year 2019 for her contributions to Art & Design.

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Lady Skollie has been awarded the 2019 Mbokodo Award for Architecture and Design. 

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Blessing Ngobeni has been awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist 2020 for the Visual Arts category.

Claude Jammet, on the occasion of winning the Premio Turio-Copello Award, is featured in Il Secolo XIX

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Liza Grobler, on the occasion of A Rainbow in my Pocket at Everard Read Cape Town, is the subject of an interview feature with Misha Krynauw on Atthrob ZA.

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Everard Read's CIRCA gallery in Johannesburg was featured in an article, by Brian McKechnie, in the Financial Mail on South Africa's six best buildings.

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Everard Read present at

CONTEXT Art Miami

3 - 8 December 2019

Everard Read will be presenting works by Liza Grobler, Matthew Hindley, Lady Skollie, Turiya Magadlela, Nigel Mullins, Brett Murray, Blessing Ngobeni, Lionel Smit, Andrzej Urbanski and Beezy Bailey. 

Launched in 2012, CONTEXT Art Miami's open atmosphere creates a meaningful dialogue between artists, galleries and collectors while providing the ultimate platform for the presentation of mid-career, emergent and cutting-edge talent by emerging and established galleries. Ninety-five international galleries, vetted by the CONTEXT Art Miami Selection Committee, exhibit highlights from their gallery programmes, solo artist exhibitions and curated projects. The combined efforts of CONTEXT Art Miami and Art Miami provide a unique and alternative opportunity for leading primary dealers and their artists to be marketed and promoted internationally during the most important week for contemporary art in America.

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Everard Read present at

Art X Lagos

1 November - 3 November 2019

Everard Read exhibits a presentation of five artists: Nelson Makamo, Blessing Ngobeni, Lady Skollie, Lionel Smit and Gary Stephens.

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Lady Skollie | Weakest Link at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK, is reviewed by Graham Wood in the Lifestyle Section of Sunday Times. The feature includes an artist portrait of Lady Skollie at the exhibion and work details of PAPSAK PROPAGANDA III: And I was really far out and you thought I was waving, but I was drowning (Stevie Smith tribute) and Cagn speaking to the people from the sky.

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Shany van den Berg is announced as one of the Top 40 finalists in this year’s edition of the prestigious Sanlam Portrait Award.

Turiya Magadlela, on the occasion of Gossamer at Carl Freedman Gallery Margate, is the subject of a feature with Rachel Felder on the New York Times'.

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Turiya Magadlela is featured in the Financial Times' article on pantyhose in art. 

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Textile artist Turiya Magadlela was commissioned by the 16th Istanbul Biennial curatorial team to create a site-specific artwork in Turkey. S’Maidical is a series of giant tapestries made of tights, which cover the ceiling, resulting in a cave-like structure. Throughout the opening week, as a performance, she continued to sew tights in the exhibition space, calling attention to labour conditions, gender disparities, as well as the intertwined histories of sexually and racially-grounded violence and abuse. Magadlela’s use of textiles also calls attention to (skin) colour, as well as referring to the context of South Africa, with allusions to black magic and fetish dolls.

The Biennial runs until 10 November.

Everard Read present at FNB Art Joburg

13 September - 15 September 2019

Everard Read presents over 20 artist from South Africa and Europe. Artist include Brett Murray, Deborah Bell, Beth Diane Armstrong, Blessing Ngobeni, Caryn Scrimgoeour, Lionel Smit, Angus Taylor, Nigel Mullins, Lucinda Mudge, Turiya Magadlela, Norman Catherine, Guy Ferrer, Phillemon Hlungwani, Lady Skollie, Andrzej Urbanski, Daniel Naudé and Olivié Keck.

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Blessing Ngobeni is the subject of an interview video, disucssing his journey to becoming one of South Africa's most established contemporary artists, on East Coast Radio

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Nigel Mullins: Mass Gatherings is featured, with image of Protest at Trafalgar Square, in a roundup of art events in the September issue of Sloane Square

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Nigel Mullins: Mass Gatherings at Everard Read London is the subject of a feature, with image of Protest at Trafalgar Square, on Omenka

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Lucinda Mudge is the subject of a 4-page artist profile, with images, in Génératione Africaine.

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Beezy Bailey, on the occassion of his book launch, is the subject of an 8-page interview feature, with images, in After Nyne.

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Guy Ferrer's travelling T.O.L.E.R.A.N.C.E sculpture is the subject of a feature on Midi Libre.

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Phenyo Melody Madiba is announced as the 2019 winner of the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize, a self-funded art prize that offers the artist three months residency at Victoria Yards, a materials fund, a three months stipend and a show at Everard Read Johannesburg.

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Franta: Expressions d'Humanités in Mimizan, France is reviewed with 4-and-a-half stars on Arts in the City

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Summer at Everard Read London is featured, with image Neill Wright's Toxic Plumes and mentions of Beezy Bailey, Emalie Bingham, Tamlin Blake and Aron Demetz, in the July issue of Sloane Square Magazine.

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Everard Read London present at Masterpiece Art Fair, London

27 June - 03 July 2019

Everard Read London stages a presentation of four artists;
Deborah Bell, Guy Ferrer, Angus Taylor and Nic Bladen.

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Southern Aspect: A Group Exhibition at Everard Read London is the subject of a feauture, with images of Ricky Dyaloyi In Replay II and The Multitude, Emalie Bingham Judas and Other Kissers and Kilmany-Jo Liversage AVAORDA419, by Gordon Glyn-Jones on The South African.

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Lady Skollie's exhibition, Good & Evil, at Everard Read Johannesburg is featured in the Mail&Guardian. 

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Everard Read/CIRCA Galleries are proud to announce that Lady Skollie has designed the new R5 coin. This coin commemorates and celebrates twenty five years of South African Constitutional Democracy. Lady Skollie’s design portrays the famous images of voting polling stations in 1994 when the nation attained its independence.

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Dylan Lewis, at The Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden in Cape Town, is featured in 3-images in a picture slide-show of Wendy Yu's visit to the city on Vogue

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Phillemon Hlungwani: NTSAKO WA XIBELANI at Everard Read Johannesburg is reviewed by Nadine Sibanda on Rosebank Killarney Gazette. 

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Blessing Ngobeni in collaboration with Legate Lithography Editions (LL Edition) has recently participated in the Venice Biennale. The exhibition entitled 'Ubuntuism Re-enchanted', curated by Ruzy Rusike, draws inspiration from the poem 'The Rise of Shaka' written by Mazisi Kunene.

Kunene's poem toys with the effect of absence and presence, where excess of the latter suffocates and the former piques interest. Ngobeni draws inspiration from the dichotomy of nature and urbanisation. This exhibition is currently on display until the 4 November 2019.

Lionel Smit: Destructure at Everard Read London is the subject of a feauture, with images of Aligned 2, Pulse and Destructure, by Caryn Edwards on The South African.

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Everard Read London presents: Destructure - a solo exhibition of sculpture and paintings by celebrated South African artist, Lionel Smit.

In this new body of work, Smit continues to explore themes of identity through portraiture on canvas and bronze sculptures. For the artist, the human face offers an endless source of study and his work accentuates facial characteristics through bold swathes of colour and brush techniques, highly-textured bronzes and vivid patinas.

Blessing Ngobeni's work Land Exchange has been acquired for the permanent collection by Iziko South African National Gallery

Paolo Bini was honoured with a solo booth, titled Spazi Immensi, at the recent MiArt Fair in Milan. Organised by the Intesa San Paolo Bank (the main sponsor of the Fair itself), the solo show was promoted with a monograph published by the renowned Marsilio Edition. Works will be included in the Intesa San Paolo permanent collection, which includes works by artists such as Caravaggio.

Penelope Stutterheime Mapping
3 – 26 April 2019
Everard Read Circa Cape Town

Everard Read Cape Town is pleased to present Mapping – an exhibition of new artworks by Penelope Stutterheime. This is the artist’s first large solo exhibition in the CIRCA Cape Town gallery space, and the culmination of 14 months of painting in her studio.

Please contact info@everardlondon.com for available works at Everard Read London

Everard Read London presents

Guy Ferrer  Le Jardin des Délices  

5 April - 4 May 2019

Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Guy Ferrer.

Born in Algeria, Guy Ferrer is a French artist of Catalan and Italian descent. His work is deeply concerned with spirituality and the transience of life, and over the past three decades, he has developed an international reputation as a painter and sculptor, with exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

For this London exhibition, Ferrer has assembled a compelling body of work that continues his investigation into the duality of life and the universe, using his artistic practice to search for meaning and share his revelations with others.

Nelson Makamo is the subject of a feature by Ernest Mabuza on TimesLive. 

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Aron Demetz has a new solo exhibition at the Galerie Doris Ghetta in South Tyrol, Italy. 

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Everard Read London presents

William Peers  Fanfare

8 - 30 March 2019

Everard Read London presents an exhibition of marble sculpture by British sculptor, William Peers. 

With this new body of work, Peers continues exploring the relationship between positive and negative shapes. Removing more marble allows the negative shapes to play a greater part and the focus shifts between the marble contours and the air around them - a conversation between matter and space.

Everard Read London presents

Barbara Wildenboer  Folly

8 - 30 March 2019

Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new work by South African artist, Barbara Wildenboer.

Using the medium of collage to powerful effect, Wildenboer’s exhibition comprises highly textured and sculptural works that serve as contemporary vanitases within the context of the Anthropocene.

Through her practice, Wildenboer reflects on how humankind is affected by globalisation, economic upheavals, scarcity, pollution and man-made disasters. She explores both beauty and excess, the magnitude and the mystery of the cosmos, contrasted with the relative insignificance of humans.

Beezy Bailey, on the occassion of his book launch at Everard Read London, is the subject of an interview with London Live

Barbara Wildenboer: Folly is featured, with image of Flights of Fancy, in a roundup of art events in the March issue of Sloane Square

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Everard Read Cape Town exhibits at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019, exhibiting works by artists including Brett Murray, Deborah Bell, Blessing Ngobeni, Nigel Mullins, Andrzej Urbanski, Beezy Bailey and Beth Diane Armstrong.

Brett Murray: Hide at Everard Read Cape Town is reviewed by Melvyn Minnaar on Business Live

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Everard Read London presents

Daniel Naudé  A Decade of Seeing

13 February - 1 March 2019

"The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas, are specifically addressed to man."- John Berger, Why Look at Animals?

Everard Read London is pleased to present A Decade of Seeing by acclaimed South African photographer, Daniel Naudé.

Over the past decade, Naudé has practised capturing and perfecting moments of stillness in nature. This exhibition encompasses a critical selection of works from his recent projects: Animal Farm (2007-2012), Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in Uganda, Madagascar and India (2012-2014), Cattle of the Ages – Ankole cattle in South Africa - a project with South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa (2017) as well as his newest works of Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Nelson Makamo, on the occasion of his cover page image Visions of a limitless future in Time magazine, is the subject of a feature by Ciara Nugent.

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Kilmany-Jo Liversage is the subject of a profile, discussing her activism and the role of art, on East Coast Radio. 

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Everard Read London artist Beezy Bailey's upcoming Book is featured in the December - January issue of Designing Ways. 

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'There is No Time Like the Present' is a large-scale, site-specific sculpture made by Rina Stutzer for the Mall of Africa in Midrand (near Johannesburg).
 
The sculptures, at a height of 5.5m, represent the two faces of Africa: the line sculpture represents an Africa rooted in tradition; the bare bones of a continent that holds us all together. The second sculpture, built from mirror-finish stainless steel, allows us to see the wealth of opportunity and the inherent potential that lies within all of us.

Blessing Ngobeni, on the occasion of A Note From Error at Everard Read Johannesburg, is the subject of an interview feature on Mail&Guardian

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Barbara Wildenboer's solo 'Eros / Thanatos' opens at Everard Read JHB on 15th November. A series of assemblages in shades of 'dark' and 'light', the collages have been used to a create a contemporary Vanitas within the context of the Anthropocene era. Wildenboer draws from her own dreams, anxieties and personal narratives and intuitively connects inner and outer worlds, present, past and future. 

Barbara Wildenboer will be exhibiting at Everard Read London from 8 March - 30 March.

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It took just 10 minutes for Jake Aikman's 'South Atlantic’ print, his debut collaboration with Goldmark Atelier in the UK, to sell out. Aikman's signature seascapes remind us that "we are not in control of the forces of nature, and linked to that reminder are the trials and tribulations of the viewer’s life." 

Everard Read London presents

ALESSANDRO PAPETTI and ARON DEMETZ

16 November - 17 December 2018

This exhibition of new paintings by Alessandro Papetti and sculpture Aron Demetz marks the first time the artists will present a collaborative show together. Many of the works were made or conceived while working in Demetz's studio in Val Gardena in northern Italy.

Papetti and Demetz share a long-standing fascination with the human figure and indeed the nexus of this collaborative project is the infinitely complex and ambivalent manifestations of the human form.

Award winning artist Blessing Ngobeni will also be exhibiting a solo show, A Note from Error at Everard Read in Johannesburg, from 15 November until 21 December. 

Watch a video of Ngobeni in his studio discussing his practice and thoughts on being an artist.

Opening 15th November at CIRCA in Johannesburg is Polish-born Andrzej Urbanski's first solo with the JHB gallery, A03 2034/538/18. Urbanski creates large, optically-bending spaces composed of the architectural squares, triangles and hexagons of the contemporary built environment. Since his 2012 Residency in SA, Urbanski has devoted his time to the streets, cultures and social interactions of his new home, Cape Town. 

Claude Jammet: Bestiary / Anthropocene at Everard Read London is previewed by Paolo Pasterelli, with images of The Crossing, Visitors Book and Marabou, in Il Secolo XIX

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Everard Read London presents

Blessing Ngobeni

A Note From Error

19 October - 10 November 2018

Everard Read London present a solo exhibition by Johannesburg based artist Blessing Ngobeni. Fuelled by the social injustices of post-Apartheid South Africa, Ngobeni joins a distinguished lineage of artists who dare to critique the status quo. His work is said to “borrow from the language of Surrealism, the anarchy of Dada and the figurative violence of Neo-Expressionism." * 

*Vitamin P3 New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, 2016

“The sacred fire is the irrepressible and permanent need to keep working in my studio, every single day, to the point of feeling guilty when for one reason or another I have to stop. The studio is my favorite place of life, the place where I feel anything is possible to live the adventures of form and color, order and chaos, transcendence. And to experience some truths revealed by the work, on myself, on the nature of the world and the great mystery that surrounds everything, on aesthetics or geometry or beauty, and always in connection with the dears absents, the ones I call my invisibles-still-acting."

Guy Ferrer is represented by Everard Read London.
The artist will present his second solo exhibition with the gallery in April 2019. For information on available works by the artist please contact the gallery here.

Everard Read Cape Town is highlighted as a top destination within Cape Town on Condé Nast Traveler and IOL

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Franta: au plus près / close up at Everard Read London and in association with Bogéna Galerie, with image of Trio, is featured in French art magazine Miroir de l’art

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Everard Read Johannesburg is the subject of an article on 702

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Everard Read London artist, Barbara Wildenboer is featured on art and visual culture blog This is Colossal. The article looks at the South African artist's practice and use of old books and vintage maps in her three-dimensional artworks, with mention of her upcoming Everard Read London 2019 exhibition Babara Wildendoer: Folly.

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Wildenboer's work is part of the art collection at Linthwaite House hotel overlooking Lake Windermere in Britain’s Lake District.

She will have a solo exhibition at Everard Read London in March 2019. To request a portfolio ahead of the exhibition click here.

British sculptor William Peers’ monumental sculpture Wild Albert graces the lawn of the newly reopened Linthwaite House overlooking Lake Windermere in Britain’s Lake District.

Carved from a single block of Carrara marble, the overlapping rings play tricks with the light and the sculpture appears to float amongst the wild flowers.

 Peers lives and works in Cornwall and he follows the long history of English stone carving brought to prominence by artists such as Henry Moore and Eric Gill.

William Peers will have a solo exhibition at Everard Read London in March 2019.

Click here to receive the portfolio of works ahead of the exhibition.

Everard Read London artist, nomThunzi Mashalaba, is the subject of a feature, with quotes by the artist, and images of Feelings, these well up from somewhere and are mixed together inside me (2014-18) and Page Series 2017, on the History of Childhood Memories (2018), in the September issue of Wanted Magazine 

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Her work As she is no more (Purple) was recently displayed in our SUMMER exhibition

Blessing Ngobeni is the subject of a feature, with quotes from the artist, discussing his life story and his triumph over adversity, on VaVida eMagazine.

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Ngobeni's work is on show during Everard Read London's solo exhibition Blessing Ngobeni: A Note From Error from 19 October to 10 November. For more information or to request a portfolio please follow here.

Angus Taylor and Rina Stutzer are a force in the South African art world. Not only are they both respected artists in their own right, they also run one of SA’s most advanced sculpture studios and foundries, Dionysus Sculpture Works (DSW), which casts many of our most renowned local fine artists, including Deborah Bell, Joni Brenner and Norman Catherine.

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Daniel Naudé exhibits his photographs at Festival La Gacilly Baden Photo in Baden, Austria. 

The exhibition will be open from the 8th of June - 30th of September 2018. 

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Daniel Naude: A Decade of Seeing will showing at Everard Read London from 13 February - 2 March 2019.

We are pleased to announce that Everard Read Johannesburg is showcasing a sculpture-only installation at FNB Joburg Art Fair this weekend at booth C06, featuring Guy du Toit, Guy Ferrer & many more of our artists.

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Guy Ferrer's TOLERANCE sculptures which will be featured in the Art Fair is the subject of a video.

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Everard Read London artist, Lionel Smit is building a new studio!

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Setlamorago Mashilo speaks to Sunday Times about his solo exhibition at Everard Read Johannesburg. The exhibition opens on Thursday 19 July 2018.

To read the full article please follow the link here.

South African artist Lionel Smit is one of 80 artists who have contributed their work for a striking collection of bear images, as part of a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) exhibition currently on display in China.

This is to draw much-needed attention to the cruel treatment of bears in circuses.

Peta Asia vice-president Jason Baker said: “Over 80 of the world’s most caring actors and artists have helped Peta create beautiful bear-protection pieces.”

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"It is not important that one be a believer or not:

What is important is to be Tolerant "- Dalai Lama   

 "‹

"TOLERANCE" is composed of nine bronze sculptures, each representing a word of the word "tolerance" and suggests a religion, belief or spirituality.

Edited in six series, in Paris and Montpellier (France) and in Abu Dhabi (UEA).

TOLERANCE, pinpoints of light against the darkness of intolerance and terrorism that we are facing around the world.

At each installation, a focal point welcoming other artists, students and entire communities to join the message of Tolerance, Compassion and Brotherhood.

"It is not important for a being to be a believer or not:

what is important is to be tolerant "- Dalai Lama 

 "TOLÉ.RANCE" is composed of nine bronze sculptures, each representing a letter of the word "tolerance" and suggesting a religion, a belief or a spirituality.

 Published in six series, three are permanently installed on public sites in Paris and Montpellier (France), as well as in Abu Dhabi (UAE).

We are now continuing towards our goal and our vision of installing TOLERANCE, points of light against the darkness of intolerance and terrorism that we face worldwide.

"‹Each installation marks the territory as a focal point for other artists, students and entire communities to carry the message of Tolerance, Compassion and Fraternity.

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Everard Read London artist, Dylan Lewis, is the subject of an interview with Dr. Johan Thom on Art Times.

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Lewis' work is on show during Everard Read London's SUMMER group show. For more information or to request a portfolio please follow here.

Philip Barlow is the subject of a profile feature of an interview on Capetown etc.

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Philip Barlow: still motion II at Everard Read London is reviewed on Buzzfeed

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Everard Read London artist, Arabellla Caccia, is featured in the August edition of SLOW Magazine published by British Airways.

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Caccia's work is on show during Everard Read London's SUMMER group show. For more information or to request a portfolio please follow here.

Philip Barlow: still motion II at Everard Read London is reviewed on Business Insider.

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Philip Barlow is the subject of a feature on Designboom.

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Thom Pierce, on the occasion of his photo essay of rural communities in Xolobeni, is the subject of a feature on the Guardian. 

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MMAKGABO HELEN SEBIDI | Tears of Africa at Everard Read Cape Town

16 - 28 July 2018

Created thirty years apart, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi’s exceptional ‘Tears of Africa’ works are being shown together for the first time in Africa at CIRCA Cape Town, from 16 – 28 July 2018. Given the paucity of work emanating from her studio, this is a rare opportunity to view her work in the flesh.

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Aron Demetz's exhibition Autarchia is featured on the Wanderer. 

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Denby Meyer: The Lightness of Summer

13 July - 11 August 2018

Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new paintings by South African artist, Denby Meyer.

Philip Barlow: still motion II

13 July - 11 August 2018

Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new paintings by South African artist, Philip Barlow.

Setlamorago Mashilo, on occassion of his solo exhibition The Land will Decide at Everard Read Johannesburg, is the subject of an interview feature Pearl Boshomane Tsotetsi on the Sunday Times. 

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Everard Read London artist, Nic Bladen, is reveiwed by the South African Sunday Times: 

"Cape sculptor turns endangered plants into newly-minted floral fossils..."

Beezy Bailey's solo exhibition, Beezy Bailey: Light Beyond the Dark, at Everard Read London is reviewed in The Mail on Sunday.

Beezy Bailey: Light Beyond the Dark at Everard Read London is featured by the South African. 

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DANIEL NAUDÉ: A Decade of Seeing at Everard Read Johannesburg is the subject of a video feature, with an interview by Naudé, on SABC 3 Top Billing.

A Decade of Seeing is a reflection on Daniel Naudé’s various bodies of work over the last ten years. A tightly curated show of just ten works, A Decade of Seeing, celebrates the artist’s visual journey from 2008 to date.

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Everard Read London artist Andrzej Urbanski features on the SA Art Times cover ahead of his London solo exhibition 23 February - 17 March.

 After a successful opening evening, Everard Read London's WINTER group show has been featured in two Sloane Square Magazine and KCW Today.

Everard Read London's group show WINTER opens.

31 January - 17 February 2018

Turiya Magadlela is reviewed by Sue Willliamson in the ArtReview. 

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Emalie Bingham is interviewed for her most five recent artworks for the Moving Still group exhibition, which showcases the talent of the Nando's Creative Exchange program. The article includes images of Bingham's following work: Untitled (2017); A Thigh Bone Will Always Be A Thigh Bone (2017): Ephemera (2017); Keicho Nankaido 1606 (2017); and Restless to be still (2017). 

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Nigel Mullins: Artefacts from the Anthropocene at CIRCA Johannesburg is reviewed by Dave Mann on Artthrob

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Everard Read is pleased to present a new video to accompany Sasha Hartslief's solo exhibition in London. The show runs 17 November to 16 December.

Beth Diane Armstrong, on the occasion of her solo exhibition perpetuum at the National Gallery in Cape Town, is the subject of a feature on The Wanted

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Neill Wright's multimedia works draw from media, pop-culture, politics and societal interactions. 

Shany van den Berg:(In)filtration of Time at Everard Read Cape Town is reviewed by Mary Corrigal on Business Live

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Everard Read London are delighted to announce Phillemon Hlungwani's solo exhibition: Rirhandzu Ra Manana/The Love of Women.

Shany van den Berg, on the occasion of Shany van den Berg:(In)filtration of Time at Everard Read Cape Town, is the subject of an artist profile on IOL

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Everard Read pay tribute to Beth Diane Armstrong who won the Standard Bank Young Artist 2017 Award - South Africa’s most prestigious art prize for young talent.

Beth Diane Armstrong, on the occasion of winning the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, is the subject of an interview with Eugene Yiga of the Sunday Times. 

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Video of South African artist, Kilmany-Jo Liversage in her studio preparing a work for Dubai.

Beth Diane Armstrong’s in perpetuum is the subject of a feature by Tim Leibbrandt, with images of Only One Living and Division Process – F, on Creative Feel

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Lucinda Mudge, on the occasion of The Wold is Always Near, is the subject of an interview feature on Visi

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 Everard Read London is delighted to be showing Olivia Musgrave’s Amazon Queen in an exhibition entitled Art in Motion: Spirit of the Horse at Messum’s Wiltshire, 10 June – 8 July.

Angus Taylor: In the middle of it | 2 June - 1 July 2017

Everard Read London presents a major exhibition of new sculptures by leading South African sculptor, Angus Taylor.
Known for his powerful, often monumental, sculptural works, Taylor works with an extraordinary range of materials from his immediate environment - Belfast granite, red jasper and the orange soil found near Johannesburg. He relishes working with challenging materials, on a scale that many sculptors find intimidating.

Art Angels Africa brought their annual charity auction to London for the first time this month, auctioning works by top South African artists. Several Everard Read artists donated works for the auction, including Beezy Bailey, Deborah Bell, Phillemon Hlungwani, Angus Taylor, Rina Stutzer, Lionel Smit, Colbert Mashile, Dylan Lewis and Nic Bladen, along with Sam Nhlengethwa and Marco Cianfanelli. 

Everard Read London is delighted to announce that simultaneous solo exhibitions by two South African artists - Lucinda Mudge and Penelope Stutterheime are now open.

Penelope Stutterheime | Merging 5 - 27 May

Everard Read London presents an exhibition of new paintings by South African artist Penelope Stutterheime.  Based in Cape Town, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London.

Depicting “‘inner landscapes” has always been Stutterheime’s preoccupation. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of intensely vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works. 

Lucinda Mudge, on the occassion of The Wolf is Always Near, is the subject of of an interview column, in House and Leisure. 

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"Animals reinforce a political statement: Colbert Mashile draws from African traditions where clans have animal totems, to produce surreal works" by Mary Corrigall, published in Businessday, South Africa, 11th April 2017

Colbert Mashile: Truth or Dare at Everard Read Cape Town until 7 May 2017.

"I make art intuitively. I don’t try to be too obvious or too serious. I use the animal characters as a way of storytelling."

Everard Read London is delighted to present an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Guy Ferrer.

Born in Algeria, Guy Ferrer is French, of Catalan and Italian descent. Over the past three decades he has earned an international reputation as a painter and sculptor, with exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

Rich in symbolism and texture, Ferrer’s work is concerned with spirituality and the transience of life. For his first solo exhibition in London, he has assembled a compelling body of work that continues his investigation into the duality of life and the universe, using the daily practice of his art to search for meaning.

Liza Grobler: Maybe Time Can Fold at Everard Read Cape Town is reviewed by Lloyd Pollak on Creative Feel. 

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Lucinda Mudge, on the occassion of The Wolf is Always Near, is the subject of an interview feature by Gary Cotterell on The Wanted.

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Lionel Smit: Faces of Identity at Everard Read London, 24 February - 25 March

This exhibition comes to Everard Read London following Lionel Smit’s acclaimed solo exhibition at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki where it was seen by more than 10 000 visitors.

Faces of Identity is a powerful body of work that explores themes of identity through portraiture on canvas and bronze deconstructions. With its ubiquity but also its uniqueness, the human face offers an endless source of study. Smit’s work accentuates facial characteristics through bold swathes of colour and brush techniques, highly-textured bronzes and vivid patinas which result in the arresting work, often of monumental proportions, for which he is renowned.

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Franta, on the occasion of his solo exhibition Franta: Le Temps d’une Oeuvre in Venice, is featured, with images and a video, on France Info

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Everard Read London opened southern abstraction, a group exhibition, on 20 January 2017. Participating artists include Ricky Burnett, Galia Gluckman, Liza Grobler, Syndi Kahn, Vusi Khumalo, Bronwyn Lace, Richard Penn, Lyndi Sales, Penelope Stutterheime, Andrzej Urbanski and Philippe Uzac.

My aim is to visually grasp the studio and its contents which are predominantly static, over time, so that the slow infusion of the presence of the working artist, through light and movement, impregnates the photographic image with a tangible presence and energy which cannot be seen, but definitely felt. 

   - Laura Ellenberger

Kilmany-Jo Liversage, on the occasion of her mural for Hyde Park Nando's (South Africa), is the subject of a feature one Hyde Park Herald

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Our newest gallery in the Everard Read group - CIRCA, Cape Town - opened in November 2016 in a refurbished heritage building overlooking the V&A Waterfront, with inaugural exhibitions by Beezy Bailey and Liberty Battson.

The Bowie/Collector sale at Sotheby's on Friday 11 November 2016 saw Norman Catherine achieve a new record for the sale of his work at auction. Catherine, who is represented by Everard Read Galleries, had three works included in David Bowie's private collection on sale. Both 'Fanagalo Store' and 'Cat Man' significantly exceeded their estimates.

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Nigel Mullis: 21st Century Talismans and Caryn Scrimgeour: Postcards from China at Everard Read London are highlighted in a round up on The South African

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Deborah Belll , leading South African artist represented by Everard Read discusses her new body of work for her forthcoming exhibition - Return of the Gods - at Everard Read Gallery London. Here we find Bell, a long time collaborator with South African legends Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge, at her most introspective best, contemplating what it is to practice art in a far flung corner of South Africa as an outsider from the global often circuitous and incestuous art dialogue which allows her to bring her own unique vision to the conversation.

Everard Read|CIRCA Galleries are pleased to announce that artist Beth Diane Armstrong has won the 2017 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for visual art. Armstrong follows in the footsteps of William Kentridge, who won the Visual Arts category in 1987, and Brett Murray in 2002.  

Scrimgeour’s table settings intrigue and fascinate, juxtaposing fragile and precious

curios with commonplace objects, exquisitely rendered. Rich in symbolism, her

work is reminiscent of still life paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, while the

use of bird’s-eye perspective creates a contemporary context for a

very traditional genre.

"I want to present my paintings as superstitious objects with bogus protective powers to bend reality in our favour. My paintings offer somehow to help you. 'Buy you time.' Or 'Reduce insignificance.’ Or 'Guarantee Afterlife.’ The squishy bodily qualities of paint, thick gestures, and sometimes outright messy application, are ideal to evoke a low-tech, talismanic object or fetish and our chaotic and often absurd strategies for controlling the vagaries of chance and guaranteeing a bright future."

- Nigel Mullins

Dylan Lewis's oversized wildlife sculptures reflect the vastness of South African Landscapes by Jonathan Foyle. Published in the Finincial Times on 15 October 2016.

"South African sculptor Dylan Lewis is forging the evolution of bronze. He was raised in a landscape of red soils rich in copper. His country offers some of the earliest evidence of man, such as the Cradle of Humankind, a Unesco world heritage site near Johannesburg. Here, hunters lived in caves, some of which contain bulbous, tumbling limestone stalactites — natural sculptures directly expressive of primeval forces, wrought through base material."

Everard Read I CIRCA Gallery will present a solo exhibition of work by Colbert Mashile at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Colbert is an artist who has developed a unique iconographical language within South African art, often dealing with the mystical, mythological and archaic elements of traditional African culture and its legacy in present-day life.

In South Africa, hundreds of thousands of children die from AIDS every year. CHIVA Africa sends teams of highly skilled volunteer doctors, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists and dietitians from South Africa and the UK to provide targeted, on-site mentoring, teaching, assessment and quality improvement support to health facilities across South Africa. By sharing their knowledge and experience they greatly increase the impact of local frontline staff help them to achieve their ultimate goal – a long and healthy life for all children and adolescents. 

 “We work with South African healthcare professionals, providing on-site mentoring and teaching to equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to provide high quality, long term care for children and adolescents living with HIV. ” Stephen Harvey, CHIVA Africa CEO

Funds raised from the sale of these spectacular chairs at Everard Read London will support the work of CHIVA Africa - a leading AIDS charity focused on improving the lives of children and teenagers living with HIV in South Africa

The recently published 'A Voyage To The Interior' explores the paintings of Gary James as well as introducing the remarkable work of his son Alexander James. 

John Meyer, a leading South African artist who is represented by Everard Read Galleries, was recently commissioned to paint Queen Elizabeth II. With his usual attention to detail (and one eye on the historical narrative). Meyer, mindful of her 90th birthday, chose to conjure an image of her 69 years ago as a young princess, riding on a beach in South Africa in 1947, in what must have been a rare moment of unbridled freedom for the young woman who was to become the world’s oldest reigning monarch, as well as Britain's longest-lived.

Queen Elizabeth II, during her 64 year reign, is the most portrayed human in recorded history, by no lesser artists than Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol. Meyer's remarkable portrayal adds to this tradition. One can only imagine how this invocation of a time so utterly different from the present must have been received. It is hoped that this unique painting will find its way to one of her special homes.

Emalie Bingham is the subject of an interview feature, and video, with Louise McCann on Between 10 and 5.

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 A Short Q & A with sculptor William Peers on working with marble and his latest solo exhibition at Everard Read London, The Space Between.

Liza Grobler  Impression: Dusk II ,  Impression Dusk III

Denby Meyer  Valdemosa Cafe 

Penelope Stutterheime Refuge IV

Alessandro Papetti has created a limited edition of 20 catalogues capturing his most recent works. Handbound and printed on beautiful paper, each catalogue is numbered and signed and includes an original painting on paper (30 x 40 cm). 

View one of the catalogues here.

[The painter’s studio in Milan, a winter’s afternoon. The rain is pouring on the glass roof.]

Pia Capelli: This is a turning point in your work. While in your most recent exhibition, “La pelle attraverso,” you focused on the border between the Self and the world, here you have “come back,” showing landscapes that are closer to mental spaces. I know that these works are the result of a long period of transformation. What is changing in your work?

Alessandro Papetti: I used to work on motionless things, finite thoughts: I would use my way of painting, my quick gestures, to animate the object and give it a sense of movement and speed. Now, instead, I’m working on the flow of my thoughts as they come to me, when the idea is being conceived. This has a great deal to do with memory, which usually offers images of objects that are complete and finished. Anticipating memory is impossible, I know, but it is as if over these last few months of work all I had to do was try to steal milliseconds to be able to paint the moment when an idea, a thought, is born. It was not a rational attempt; it was the need to follow, or anticipate, the flow of my thoughts. 

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Paolo Bini: Beyond the Painting at Everard Read Cape Town, is featured on ABC Arte. 

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CIRCA Gallery London is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Alessandro Papetti. Entitled, I Live Here, the exhibition is Papetti’s first in the UK and will include oil paintings as well as works on prepared paper. Many of the paintings were made at the Palazzo Poli in Rome where the artist was in residency leading up to his solo exhibition there in September 2015, while others were completed in his studio.

 View a film clip of the artist at work in his studio here.

South African artist Shany Van den Berg, who is represented by Everard Read Galleries, has been selected for this year's BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. 

Her portrait, Self, was one of 53 selected from more than 2500 entries and this will be the fourth time the artist's work will be shown in the exhibition, previously exhibiting in 2009 '  dit is ek Gladys'  and 2010 'Bloedlyn '.

The BP Portrait Award 2016 will run from 23rd June- 4th September.

CIRCA London opened on 18 March 2016 with a group exhibition showcasing the work of exceptional contemporary artists from around the world.

The Opening Group Show continues until 23 April. 

A catalogue is available here.

For a full portfolio of works please contact the gallery on info@everardlondon.com or call +44 (0)20 7590 9991

ART AFRICA met with South African artist, Colbert Mashile, at his studio in the historic August House in downtown Johannesburg to discuss the symbolism in his work and his path as an internationally-acclaimed artist.

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Angus Taylor and his team in his foundry Dionysus Sculpture Works.

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A look at Deborah Bell's Return of the Gods exhibition at Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.

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An interview with leading South African painter, John Meyer, about his recent series Lost in The Dust - an exploration of the human condition in wartime through the Boer War.

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Ricky Dyaloyi talks about his work and the role of the artist in society.

Ricky Dyaloyi is one of South Africa's most promising young painters. His  work was included in Circa Gallery's presentation at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in October 2015.

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Nelson Makamo talks about his process and sources of inspiration.

Nelson Makamo is an award-winning, young South African artist known for his vibrant portraits set in pulsating African urban landscapes. Makamo's work was included in Circa Gallery's presentation at 1:54 Art Fair 2015 in October in 2015.

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CIRCA participated in the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, 15-18 October 2015 at Somerset House and presented the work of Deborah Bell, Ricky Dyaloyi, Phillemon Hlungwani, Nelson Makamo, Nigel Mullins, Lyndi Sales and Angus Taylor. Click here for more details

Nelson Makamo, So Devoted, 2015, Mixed Media on Paper, 161 x 120.5cm

Video published on South African artist, Beezy Bailey, discussing his Mandela Series in 2014.

Dylan Lewis, of the occasion of his exhibition Untamed at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, is the subject of a video