Buhle Qabaka
Buhle Qabaka is an emerging artist from eKhayelitsha, Cape Town. He specialises in freehand and digital illustration.
Starting with just a pencil and a piece of paper, doodling and drawing during school, Buhle was later named Design Indaba Emerging Creatives in 2021.
He experiments with different artistic styles and draws inspiration from everyday life, music, pop culture, and spirituality. In addition to his work as a designer and illustration, he’s also a member of Apeshit Youth/Aggressively Progressiv, an art collective headquartered in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
Daniella van den Heever
Daniella is a passionate creative from Cape Town. Guided by her imagination and expressed through mediums like watercolour, fineliner, and pencil, she immerses herself in the realms of nature, womanhood, animals and imaginary creatures. She uses techniques like impasto, intricate linework and freehand expression to create pieces that embody heartfelt storytelling and invite viewers to discover the magic that she uses during her artistic process.
Hannah Yason
UK-born artist Hannah Yason is an intuitive artist and art educator in South Africa. Her art delves into the intricate and undiscovered aspects of bodily realms, deeply inspired by Shambhala Art and driven by her distinctive painting and drawing techniques.
Hannah's creative process starts with a vision and evolves into an active meditation. As a mother of two, her children are her muses.
In February 2022, Yason showcased her first solo exhibition, 'Chronicles of the Soul,' at The Gallery at Grande Provence, Franschhoek. Her works are featured in private collections across South Africa, France, Germany, America, and the UK.
Ernst Bröcker
Ernst Bröcker is a multidisciplinary creative with experience in storytelling for film, stage, television and marketing. 2020 marked the start of an epic journey of self-actualisation and a deep desire to create in a more tangible medium and led to the rekindling of a lifelong friendship with lino cutting and printmaking. Ernst was first introduced to the art of lino printmaking when he attended The Frank Joubert Art & Design Centre (Newlands, Cape Town) from 1998 – 2002.
Ernst’s artworks are playful and whimsical with a strong focus on narrative, capturing a single moment of time for the viewer to explore – what happened before? And what happened afterwards? Ernst focuses on a specific point of tension and challenges themes of binary thinking.
Izabel de Villiers
Originally from Gauteng, Izabel is a multimedia artist now based in Cape Town. Focusing on medium as a metaphor, she paints and works with clay and beads. Symbols and the stories associated with these mediums play a big role in her work. Izabel believes art always has a function.
Aurel Okuka Mokando
Aurel Okuka Mokando is a Congolese multi-disciplinary artist who has been based in Cape Town for the past 13 years. His work spans ceramics, photography, UI, digital branding design, product design, and concept art, all underpinned by an Afrofuturist vision. His artwork, rich in therapeutic and meditative qualities, tells stories that connect with his audience, drawing on influences like nature's beauty, abstract art, and the fusion of technology with traditional mediums.
In 2017 Aurel was featured in Forbes Africa, and his work was part of the Eclectica Contemporary exhibition ‘Darkness Rising’ in 2019 and the group exhibition ‘VILLA VIVA Chapter 3 with Sangisa Sangisa Collective’ in 2022. Through his studio, AOM Studios Africa, and the Zaire Lenoire culture experience clothing brand, Aurel aims to elevate African art, storytelling, and cultural heritage, emphasising art's indispensable role in life and the ongoing celebration of African creativity.
Naomi Isobel Boobbyer
Naomi is a print designer and visual storyteller from the UK who is primarily interested in pattern-making and pushing the boundaries of mark-making for surface design and fashion. However, more recently, she has explored how her love of mark-making and expression can be used purely within a fine art context.
Since moving to Cape Town Naomi has enjoyed connecting back to her inspiration of people, places and storytelling that is also so vivid in her brand, Sane & Fable. She always keeps human connection close in her work and honours the importance of identity and individuality.
Bizhan Govindji
Bizhan is a Londoner who recently moved to Cape Town after spending five years in Hong Kong. His work focuses on the easily overlooked streetside scenes that, to him, epitomise life in Asia. Shooting on 35mm film, he attempts to capture the beauty of these vignettes and elevate them beyond the everyday.
Maxine Fitz-Patrick
Maxine Fitz-Patrick is an emerging multi-disciplinary fine artist who uses the application of a variety of mediums to explore themes relating to history, collections, and lost media and artefacts. She blends various mediums such as found objects, acrylics, oils, and digital fabrication methods.
Having graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2023, she has used her thematic interests both in her artwork and her professional life and is currently active in the art industry as a collections manager.
Maxine's current body of work speaks strongly to her interest in collections and memory as it delves into the compiling of objects and imagery and their interplay within the artworks' surface.
Nsama Wisdom Chishimba
Nsama ‘Kasocaso’ Wisdom Chishimba was born in Gaborone, Botswana and journeyed through Zambia before finding his creative home in South Africa. With a lifelong passion for art inherited from his artist parents, Nsama explores themes of mental health, queerness, blackness, and immigrant life in an urban African contemporary context. Through his art, he employs mixed media and recycled materials, breathing life into his narratives and sparking dialogue about important social issues.
Robyn Park-Ross
Robyn Park-Ross is an emerging artist whose diverse practice spans linocut, cyanotype, film photography, risograph, surface design, collage, and facilitation for collective creative processes. Through her work, she explores the significance of everyday passing moments, experimenting with various mediums to evoke and interpret our lived experiences. Trained as an urban planner, Robyn is a self-taught artist and urban researcher, bringing a unique perspective to her artistic expression.
Melani Rossouw
Melani is an artist based in Cape Town. Born in the Free State, she discovered her creative gift at the age of 12, her talent blossoming as she tried different types of creative mediums throughout high school. In 2001, Melani won the Danielle Howard Prize for Best Performance In Graphic Design. Which led her to completing a graphic design course at City Varsity Cape Town, South Africa.
Melani is inspired by street art and fine art, combining the two styles for a unique and compelling result. Loose brush strokes, free paint splatter technique, and a mix of acrylic, spray and oil paint are characteristic of her work.
In 2019 Melani’s work was exhibited at the Old Venetian Harbour in Crete, Greece and soon after that a few pieces were showcased at Design Plus during Miami Art Basel. In June 2023, her artwork appeared on the 90 metre long panoramic billboard at Passeig de Gracia, one of Barcelona's most iconic and busiest metro stations, as part of The Art Tunnel, hosted by Expo Metro.
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