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Sue Greeff

Sue Greeff is a Cape Town based artist. In 2012 she began her studies at UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, where she later graduated as a painting major in 2015 with distinctions. Her practice is contemporary and conceptual, often based on ideas and experiences from her earlier careers in both the Medical and Interior Design worlds. Sue draws connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and visually explore these, to find and understand hidden relationships.

Her work is an exploration of femininity, reproduction and the body. Sue Greeff has drawn from her personal history as a midwife, pregnancies, births and the subsequent raising of her children. She has created evocative works, using latex as the predominant medium in the body of work. This conceptually ties into the focus of the work that not only speaks about sexuality but also alludes to the seductiveness of the largely ‘veiled’ industry of intimacy.

Ibrahim Khatab

Ibrahim Khatab, a Cairo born artist, currently lectures at the National University of Cairo and has exhibited both locally and internationally. His art showcases his knowledge and technical skills of paintings, installations and video art. Ibrahim’s artworks visually expresses the artist’s deep love of calligraphy, as well as colour, space, movement and arabic script which all factor heavily in his practice.

Ibrahim Khatab feels that Islamic Calligraphy played a poignant role in the education of art and writing. Then and now, the medium is seen to be an important element of the Arabic cultural legacy, an eternal heritage that Khatab fell in love with when he was 10 year’s old. Years of honing the technical skill allowed him to use this talent as a source of income (by designing banners for commercial spaces and beautifying the pilgrims’ houses who had arrived from Mecca)and it has become central to his designs as a practicing artist today.

Hussein Salim

As a result of a tumultuous political and economical period in Sudan, which brought about disputes of its historical context, Hussein Salim spent a number of years as a refugee in various countries such as Egypt and South Africa. Despite his artistic training in Khartoum University, he attained his Master’s degree in art at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

He has exhibited extensively overseas along with acclaimed local galleries, such as Johans Borman and Bonisa Private Gallery. It was during this time, that Salim and his family embarked on both an emotional and awakening return back to his homeland, Sudan. Inspired by its diversity and diasporic, multicultural communal structure, his body of work aims to celebrate this through extensive layering of symbols masked by rich colours.

Following the example of graciousness, humility and resilience of the Sudanese, Hussain Salim has worked closely with NGO’s such as African Angels and Buccaneers Outreach program, whom focus on the sustenance and uplifting of children and schools in marginalized communities with proceeds of his artwork sales being donated to various outreach schemes.

Cobus Haupt

Haupt is well established as a bronze sculptor that draws on history, popular culture and tradition to produce artworks that are visually interesting, tactile and playful. The process and method of bronze casting informs Haupt’s work both formally and conceptually. The tendency to include cracks, flaws and unresolved imperfections that bears witness to the casting process catalogues the tactile history and the bronze technique itself, and also comments on Haupt’s rendering of the human figure. Human beings are understood as unique, fragile and remarkable due to his or her so-called imperfections, flaws and scars. These human ‘defects’ and ‘deformities’ bear, as in the case of the bronze casting process, witness to their engagement with life. Haupt undertakes all the aspects of the sculpting process himself from the mould making to the casting.

Haupt’s uses live models from which he creates figurative sculptures that portray the naturalistic qualities of the model while harnessing the expressive qualities of the medium. These assemblages juxtaposed various concepts to allow for new meaning and creation. Apart from the use of the human figure, Haupt also includes found objects including traditional African figurative sculptures, broken pieces of ceramic cutlery or childhood remnants such as Lego or Mecano. Haupt’s work also relies on an autobiographical element as he draws inspiration from that which surrounds him such as his family and objects from his past.

Thonton Kabeya

Thonton Kabeya was born in 1983, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. He established OneArtStudio at the prestigious Bag Factory Artist studio in Newtown, Johannesburg, where he works with a team of assistants.

Thonton deems himself an entrepreneurtist and he is proud of his development of a new approach in art called SCULPTING CANVAS, with the canvas becoming the Medium to explore. One rhetoric question sums up his creativity – “How would African classic art have developed organically, if there was no interference or influence of colonialism and Western society ? “

Thonton has been involved in a number of art projects in both Europe and Africa, and his work can be found in many public collection and art museums around the world