RESIDENT ARTISTS 2023
All resident artists will be exhibiting in their homes and studios, addresses below, and a here is a map.
Each member artists also has one or several guest artists who will also be exhibiting.
NIKKI MILES
@ FORAGE studio and gallery, 1 Kerk Str
Nikki studied a BA in fine Art at the University of Stellenbosch. After working as a book illustrator for many years, she found her niche in the props department working as a props scenic and fabricator in the film industry. She also pursues her own creative endeavors using a variety of media, materials and subject matter. Her illustrated skulls are an ongoing theme.
@FORAGE is the location for the All Group Show.
Nikki's guest artists are:
Juhlene Moller (poet and mixed media)
Jay Liebenberg (stone and gem work)
Instagram: @nixxmiles; @forage_ink
Email: nikkimilesscenic@gmail.com
Mobile: +27 76 089 9897
Find out more about Nikki in studio here
NIEL JONKER
@ 11 Granaat Ln.
Niel Jonker is a sculptor in bronze and other material, who paints the landscape outdoors in oil. This year he will be focusing on sculpture.
As pioneering artisan breadmaker, he hosts a monthly workshop in Baardskeerdersbos.
Niel's guest artist is Sal Price (printmaking and oil painting)
Website: www.nieljonker.co.za
YouTube: Niël Jonker Review
Mobile: +27 82 651 7414
Find out more about Niel in studio here
JAN VINGERHOETS (ReDeux)
@ Foxglove Farm, Olienhoutlaan
The ethos of ReDeux is to create elegant heirloom functional art out of consumer-discarded materials to create a second (sometimes third) life as a sum of disparate parts. Jan's art is at once a rebellion against the uber-consumerist culture as well as a celebration of the beauty inherent in life-scarred so-called waste. He calls this the "School of Imperfectionism". over the years he has produced a wide variety of functional art pieces, approximately 500 in total, with many finding new homes in Western Europe, NZ, Australia and the USA.
Jan's guest artist is Sue Vingerhoets.
Website: www.redeux.co.za
Instagram: @redeux.art
Facebook: @JanReDeux
Mobile: +27 81 033 0899
Find out more about Jan in studio here
PAMELA SULLIVAN
Bloubos Huisie, 4 Suikerbekkie St
Pamela currently works in oils, having graduated from a career in ceramics that was focused primarily on decorative functional ware, and included running projects that encompassed both ceramics and fabrics.
She relishes a simpler pace of life, and seeing the beauty in the everyday commonplace, and this is reflected in her work.
Her guest artists are: Tracy Algar (painting) and Hendricus Rabie (sculpture)
Instagram: @blouboshuisie
Find out more about Pamela in studio here
Kali van der Merwe
b 1964 Johannesburg
Self-named after the Indian godless of creation and destruction, Kali is an artist, filmmaker, poet and facilitator of creativity.
For the past 13 years Kali has lived a solitary life on wild land outside of the village of Baardskeerdersbos.
Creative curiosity, spanning 40 years, has led Kali into diverse terrain:
- Ceramic sculpture – with a Fine Art degree from the University of Cape Town;
- Installation and Performance – collaborating with underground collectives in Berlin;
- Documentary Filmmaking – garnering local and international awards;
- Creative Macro Photography and Taxidermy – exhibiting, AfTeR LiFe, an aperture on life through the lens of death, at Iziko Natural History Museum;
- Animated 360 Film, ANIMORTIS – screened at Iziko Planetarium.
For future forthcoming attractions …
EVA GILLIAM
(see map)
31 Main Rd.
Eva Gilliam is a videographer and photographer working throughout Africa for news broadcasters, NGOs and United Nations agencies for over two decades.
She began working with encaustic painting five years ago under the tutelage of her step-mother, American artist (Montana-based) Leslie Van Stavern Millar II.
She will be exhibiting photos and encaustics. Sometimes integrating the two.
Her guest artist is Fouché Hough.
Website: www.evagilliam.com
Instagram: @schmeva1974
Email: schmeva@gmail.com
Mobile: +27 71 644 4001