Land & Lives: A story of early black artists
R1000This book narrates the process on internal conflict which the artists experienced in such a context as well as the artistic products which emerged.
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This book narrates the process on internal conflict which the artists experienced in such a context as well as the artistic products which emerged.

Luan Nel received his BAFA in 1993 and his Higher diploma in Education in 1994 from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 1994 he won the Judges Prize in The Sasol New Signatures competition. In 1998 and 1999 he participated in the artist’s residency at The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
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Publication was edited and designed by Brenton Maart.
Contributions by Alexandra Dodd, Wilhelm van Rensburg, Lloyd Pollack and Robyn Sassen. Interviews with Ilya Rabinovich, Mosheke Langa and Keval Harie

Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas’s first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue—which sold out shortly after publication—has been reprinted to coincide with the artist’s 2014–2015 European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel.

Marlene Dumas’s works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery.

Foreword by David Bowie. Norman Catherine is considered to be at the forefront of South African contemporary art with his rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms rendered in brash cartoon colours; his idiosyncratic visions and his dark cynicism and exuberant humour.
Out of stockThis moving book explores the work of Sabelo Mlangeni, and the stories he tells through his photography of communities on the periphery of society. Taking time to build relationships, he gains trust and, eventually, access to inner circles and sacred spaces. Mlangeni’s work seeks to recentre themes of friendship, love and joy in the face of ever-present risk. Above all, his images tell stories of seeking out your people, choosing a family and building a home, wherever you find yourself.
Out of stockTen Years of Collecting (1979-1989), David Hammond-Tooke and Anitra Nettleton, softcover, published by the University of the Witwatersrand, 1989, tearing, creasing and wear to cover, shelf wear.
Out of stockAn illustrated biography of Jack Lugg, influential South African artist and educator.

A first monographic catalogue is devoted to Kevin Brand the prizewinner of the Mercedes-Benz Art Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008.


Published to coincide with the travelling retrospective exhibition which opened at SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, in 2010.
Out of stockA catalogue published to accompany Sharlene Khan’s photography series of the same name.

Published in 2019, When the moon waxes red: Negotiating Subjective Terrain as an ‘Inside-Outsider’, an ‘Outside-Insider’ accompanies the exhibition of the same name.
Out of stockThe print companion to Kentridge’s latest film series, bringing to life the eccentric, whimsical world of the artist’s mind and his studio

A Labour of Love offers a new look at contemporary South African Art in the 1980s. This publication contains, alongside recently discovered works by young South African artists, new essays by international art specialists, interviews with artists, previously unpublished archival material, and more than 300 illustrations of artworks.

Let children jump into the lively and flourishing local art scene, see it in full colour, learn about the diverse paths of the artists and their fascinating artworks. In time your little wonder will soon have found their own South African art hero to look up to!
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