Jared Aufrichtig is an Internationally renowned  Multidiscipline Fine Artist and Photographer pushing the boundaries of Expression. Originally gew up in Long Beach California, visiting his grandmother Grandmother Edith in South Africa regularly as a child. Edith was an important figure in South African art and she inspired Aufrichtig to follow a career in the arts. Over the many years that followed, living in both South Africa and America, Aufrichtig has developed a unique voice, making public works, fine art, murals, street art and engaging in multiple social upliftment projects. His Art and Photography have been shown and published around the world and includes a 700+ page coffee table book about South Africa and its youth culture. He has worked with numerous NGOs and facilitated a number of creative development projects. Jared’s list of accomplishments extend to being one of the original artists involved in WIP (Work In Progress), a major New York club development trying to recreate the infamous “MUDD CLUB”, as well as managing a successful charity art auction held during Art Basel Miami. He has exhibited in numerous galleries and art fairs internationally in addition to being in some major collections and having a number of museum commissions.

Karen Stewart works in paint, paper and clay and makes bespoke jewellery from her studio in Cape Town. She loves working with off cuts and discarded bits and pieces, which she collect in my studio, she reshapes these to create new works and it this transformation that she says intrigues, delights and restores her.

Karen has wanted to be an artist since she was seven, and made art at an oil painter’s house in the 70s. The smell of oil paint always fills her with nostalgia. She studied her Masters at Stellenbosch University and specialised in botanical art. She is fascinated by the relationship between art and science and her thesis was an in depth look at how the colonial plant collectors both used indigenous knowledge to discover new plants but also systematically suppressed indigenous knowledge. She is still passionate about botanical art and curates exhibitions which promote the artform. She often works collaboratively and is proud of the work she did with Cara Savan on the CS&CO artists range of wall coverings.

“I seek to uncover the hidden, embrace the magical and find wonder in the small things in my work”.

Her art has been exhibited in Johannesburg, Lagos, Cape Town and Helsinki, and her work is in the prestigious Brenthurst Library and University of Stellenbosch’s Africana Library. Her work has been placed in corporate collections.

She is the author and designer of a book about creative facilitation entitled Boxcutter published by the Cape Craft and Design Institute.

My Art is a spontaneous expression of my energy, emanating from an infinite source of pure creativity – Renee Allem

Ren (Renee Allem) is a creator, an abstract expressionist compelled to create. Exploring and experimenting with diversematerials, surfaces, scale and mediums expressing her creative energy through painting, sculpting, mixed media and digital art. Creating original artworks that are one of a kind unique visual experiences with a distinctive style that at once captivates theviewer. Enhancing any space, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary with a refined eye for detail and technical ability to create anything she envisions.

It’s the details that create a masterpiece.

Living and working in the international art world, Ren has gained invaluable experience and insight exhibiting her work with nationaland international galleries for the past 30 years. Her work hangs in corporate and private art collections around the world, working with art dealers, designers, collectors and property developers commissioning her artworks. She also works on Corporate and Public Art Projects.

This passion for the artshas inspired her to teach art appreciation and awareness.

Creating a unique Art Program for children in hospitals, designed as art therapy.

The International Biennale Committee invited Ren to exhibit at the prestigious Biennales in Italy. Exhibiting with the Rental andSales Gallery for The Los Angeles County Museum of Art for over ten years.

My body of work draws on links between, cleansing, healing, dislocation, and relocation. My paintings are an attempt to trace and understanding my lineage as a Mosotho woman born, raised, and still living in KwaZulu-Natal. I bring together an assortment of cultural references, including but not limited to my own Sesotho modality.

The stylized, flat disjointed looking figures of women from my dreamscapes infuse popular culture and symbols that explore notions of esoteric knowledge. My figures have flat exaggerated body proportions surrounded by vivid colors. I predominantly create these characters based on the women in my family. These women are not depicted as luscious beautiful for the male gaze, they are something spiritual, fierce, and capturing emotion over any sense of realism. Neither realism nor perspective is important but the objective is the way they carry themselves in their truest spiritual form in my dreamscapes Red clay/imbovu is used for spiritual and physical purification. In Nguni culture, it is used by both men and women in a traditional ceremony aimed at connecting with ancestors. My late grandmother had a spiritual gift of healing through prayer and my mother has a gift of premonitions through dreams and prayer. My two sisters and I are currently going through a cleansing ceremony and anointing ( lack of a better English term) of us accepting our spiritual paths in Nguni it is a ceremony that happens after a dream or premonition.

Painting from dreams is like summoning feelings and reliving these scenarios in my subconscious mind while creating an engagement with the scene. these figures become alive with an ancestral present as if they are negotiating their relationship with the environment. This is my attempt to regain the power of healing through my work I continue to refine my technique and find new ways to document and open conversations about our African spirituality within our social structures in my work.

I enjoy bringing life to the canvas with vibrant colors to mask the intensity of my subject matter and finding new ways to make people re-discover their perception of African spirituality.

Selloane Moeti, a painter and performer from KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, has garnered recognition for her artistry, winning awards such as the 2018 KZN Young Achiever Award. She founded Sketchin, a platform nurturing young artists in Durban. Moeti also serves as Art Director for the Rural Youth Development Foundation SA. And her work included at the Prizm Art Fair22 in Miami. In 2023, her participation in a trio show at the Latitute Art Fair and a transcendent performance at KZNSA showcased her evolving artistic vision and commitment to social impact.