Art

He is one of South Africa’s foremost conceptual artists with a career spanning more than thirty years. Boshoff works in a variety of media which includes; sculpture, installation, performance and printmaking.

Tributes poured in on Facebook and elsewhere for popular Durban artist, stage designer and playwright Andrew Verster, who passed away peacefully on Sunday 16th February 2020.

I have an obsessive interest in tattoos, but dare not have one. They’re an artform all of their own, and the popularity appears to keep rising.

“I’m an artist, an art teacher and an aesthete,” says Philippa Graff, “and I am continually refreshed by good taste and the simple subtle elements of design.”

Although born in Scotland, trained at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and now lives in the Andalucian village of Casares in Spain, Kenneth Godfrey spent his formative years in Durban, and studied at the University of Durban-Westville, so I’ll call him ‘one of ours’.

I’ve often wondered whether commercial photographers are also photography ‘hobbyists’, you know, taking their hi-tech equipment beyond their studios and into the cities, suburbs, and great outdoors, and Shawn Driman answered my question, “yes, we do …” and he’s damn good at it.

Anthony Harris said, "I use the landscape as a metaphor, my work explores the complexity of the terrain in ways that challenge the viewers' own boundaries and conventions of romanticising something".

“Life is too short to follow only one passion”, said Barry Downard.