Richard Specs Ndimande

Artist’s Bio Richard ‘Specs’ Ndimande is a fine artist. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1994. He studied at the University of Johannesburg where he obtained a Degree in Fine Arts in 2017. He works in sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and mixed media. His work is inspired by social ills committed in South … Read more

Phumulani Ntuli

Phumulani Ntuli holds a Masters in the Fine Arts- Arts Public Sphere from (ECAV) Ecole Cantonale D’Art du Valais in Sierre-Switzerland and was awarded Prix-excellence for his ongoing research project “Permutations of an event” centered around notions of archives and surveillance. Ntuli’s opus merges the ambit of artistic research, sculpture, video installations and performative practices. … Read more

Gail Behrmann

Gail Behrmann BioBorn 1948 and educated in Potchefstroom at Central Primary School and the Girls HighBehrmann studied art with Bill Ainslie Studios which finally became the Johannesburg Art Foundation.She combines painting with a career as an archive researcher for films, books and museum installations with Angus Gibson and William Kentridge’s theatre installations.  This comfortably connects … Read more

Bag Factory Studio Artist: Nyakallo Maleke

Artist’s Biography Nyakallo Maleke (b.1993) is an artist and writer based in Johannesburg. Maleke earned her Master of Art degree – with distinction, in Public Sphere at the École de design et haute école dʼart du Valais (édhéa) in Switzerland (2019), where her research utilised the medium of drawing to think through notions of migration, vulnerability, … Read more

Joe Leshoka Legate

Born in Polokwane, graduated at Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico in USA. After his graduation he continued to work at The Artist’s Press.Legate Lithography Editions (LL Editions) established in 2014, is modelled around the passionate interests of artist and Master collaborative printer, Joe Legate who trained at the Tamarind Institute at the University of … Read more

Bev Butkow

South African artist Bev Butkow (b. Johannesburg 1967) arrived late to the arts, first holding a paint brush at age 43. As a self-taught artist, she embraces an instinctive and incidental way of working, forging a unique path through her playful experimentation. Her process-based practice is an ongoing conceptual and material cycle of unravelling order, followed by attempts … Read more

David Koloane

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1775″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][vc_btn title=”Visit Goodman Gallery’s site” style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”inverse” size=”lg” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-bullhorn” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodman-gallery.com%2Fartists%2Fdavidkoloane||” add_icon=”true”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Artists’ Biography” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] South African painter David Nthubu Koloane was born in Alexandria, Johannesburg in 1938.  He received his art training from 1974 to 1977 at the Bill Ainslie Studios, which later became the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Since … Read more

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa

Kagiso Patrick Mautloa studied art at Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, KwaZulu Natal and at the Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto. He has participated in Thupelo and Triangle workshops, held numerous solo and group exhibitions, and has work in a number of important public collections across South Africa.His work studies the street life around him and his studio … Read more

Residencies

The Bag Factory’s visiting artist program, which began in 1996, has already welcomed more than 200 artists, researchers, and curators, from around the world, to Johannesburg. Up to eight residencies are programmed each year, inviting mid-career international artists to work alongside a community of fifteen Johannesburg-based peers for one to three months. Residencies are self-directed … Read more

Studio Artists

The Bag Factory has seventeen artists’ studios and the last space is used by LL Editions, they are fine art lithographers who offer printing making and framing services run by print Master Joe Legate. Two Artists’ studios are reserved for our international residency programme and the special projects that we run throughout the year.Sharlene Khan Candice … Read more