Southern Africa – Page 3 – AFRICAN DIGITAL ART

ABC of Xhosa Names Illustrated

Xhosa Names and Meanings in a series of animated ect by South African graphic designer and illustrator Thandiwe Tshabalala. Way back, when apartheid was taking place in South Africa, parents used to give their kids English names so that white people wouldn’t have to struggle pronouncing African names. Most people…

Juan Stockenstroom: Digital Retouching and Photography

Interview with photo retoucher and photographer Juan Stockenstroom from Cape Town, South Africa Most photo retouchers have a bad reputation for setting impossible beauty standards for the world, do you think this criticism is fair? How is the work that you do similar or different? To answer this question I…

Kin: Pieter Hugo

South African photographer Pieter Hugo examines themes of home, homelessness and familial relationships throughout South Africa. "an engagement with the failure of the South African colonial experiment and my sense of being 'colonial driftwood' ... South Africa is such a fractured, schizophrenic, wounded and problematic place. It is a very…

African Metropolis: Six Stories from Six African Cities

May 2014 will see the launch of African Metropolis at cinemas in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The compilation of six short fiction films, set in six major African cities, tells urban tales about life in African metropolises. Screenings start on 9 May at The Bioscope in Johannesburg and on 30 May at Labia…

Sightings of the Sacred Cattle: Daniel Naudé

South African photographer Daniel Naudé examines the relationship that cattles have in societies in Uganda and Madagascar. Current Exhibition at the Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, 10 April -24 May 2014. The gallery is open from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Saturday 10am to 1pm UGANDA ©Daniel Naudé, Ankole herd. Lake…

National Gallery of Zimbabwe

To explore and express the essence of Zimbabwean identity through the visual arts.To promote talent, creativity and visual heritage through local and internal Platforms. The National Gallery has set itself as a center for national culture, which may inject various influences into the mainstreams of life and change the way…

The Forgotten Kingdom

Synopsis Writer-director Andrew Mudge crafts an intimate tale of lost soul Atang (Zenzo Ngqobe) on the occasion of his return to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father. Grown used to the hustle and bustle of Johannesburg, he must quickly adjust to the more spiritual rhythms of…

Colonial Bastard Typeface

A graphic design project by Zimbabwean born illustrator and graphic designer Osmond Tshuma. The Colonial Bastard Rhodes typeface is a post-colonial critique of both Cecil John Rhodes and the impact of Colonialism in South Africa. The typeface is based on identifying certain key characteristics of fonts and typography used during…

African Mix Posters

A little textures and pattern inspiration by graphic designer Elise Hannebicque. Inspired by Nelson Mandela.

Sho’t Left: Celebrating South African Occupations

South African illustrator Karabo Poppy Molestane was inspired by the working people of Pretoria. She created a Zine that showcased the working life of many people in South Africa. I took a trip to Church Square (Pretoria Central Business District) and interviewed people I met about their occupation and the tools they…

Summer Time in Camps Bay

Summer is in full swing in Cape Town. Photographer Peter Krasilnikoff capture the full delight at Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa.

Ghosts: Art Project on the African Arms Trade

A few weeks ago we heard about Ghosts an art project by South African filmmaker Ralph Ziman. Our friends at 10and5 interviewed Ziman and found out the motivation behind the project as well as the creative process. While spending time in Johannesburg I was, like everyone else, horrified by the crime…

Akinbode Akinbiyi: On Street Photography

My philosophy is that you are quickest on foot. This may sound contradictory. When you walk you move slowly through spaces and by so doing you see more. I have been doing this for 40 years. I move very slowly and gently, I try not to invade other people’s spaces,…

Dá Licença: Potraits of homes in Maputo

Mozambican photgrapher Mauro Pinto photographers living spaces in Maputo's Mafalala quarter. Winner of the BESphoto competition of 2012. “the series reveals the manner in which the artist gives himself over to the reality of the people who inhabit the spaces portrayed while at the same time conveying an historical and…

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard

Goodman Gallery

South Africa Established in 1966, The Goodman Gallery is well known for specializing in African contemporary Art. Located in both Johannesburg and Cape Town it has become a staple art institution recognized internationally for featuring well established and visionary African artists. [toggles class="yourcustomclass"] [toggle title="Contact"]JOHANNESBURG T: +27-11-788-1113 F: +27-11-788-9887 jhb@goodman-gallery.com…

Adama in Wonderland: Photography Exhibition on African mega-cities

Closes January 31st 2014 Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg 119 Jan Smuts Avenue Off Newport Road Parkwood 2193 Johannesburg, South Africa Renowned Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi has for some years focused his output on mega-cities, especially those on the African continent, including work on Cairo, Lagos and Kinshasa. The body Adama in Wonderland, was…

On Photography: Juan Orrantia capturing Guinea-Bissau

In an Interview with Africa's A Country, Photographer Juan Orrantia discusses his latest project Holding (on to) Amilcar, experiences in Guinea-Bissau, creative process and photojournalistic approach... I started out photographing people, in their homes, very into the action of moments. But I also always had an interest in place and…

The Purple Shall Govern: Mary Sibande Exhibition

Location: South African National Gallery Current Exhibition closes on January 15, 2014 Mary Sibande is celebrated for her practice in which she employs the human form as a vehicle - through painting and sculpture - to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context. She attempts to critique…

Interview with South Africa Instgram Community @igersSouthAfrica

Most of us are fully into our addiction into instagram, well I am at least ready to admit I have a problem ( @digitalafrican ). Being naturally a visual person it is no wonder that incessantly checking instagram has become one of my social media habitual practices. Like most social media…

Featured Artists: Avandu Vosi

Neo Nigeria Concept Art

Ugandan Animation: A Kalabanda Ate My Homework

Hyperrealism paintings by Oresegun Olumide

Wives of the Mau Mau Generals

Input your search keywords and press Enter.