1 FEB – 29 APR 2020Georgina Maxim is known for both working as an artist and curator with over a decade of arts management and curatorial practice. Maxim together with Misheck Masamvu co-founded Village Unhu in 2012, an artist collective space that has been providing studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for artists – … Read more
Amina Zoubir, will be at the Bag Factory for 3 weeks on a self-funded residency, she predominantly works as a videographer and a visual artist, her works are on the notions of body in spaces. Using female, male, animal and objects bodies, those interact with urban and rural spaces around the world. Her artworks … Read more
Erla S. Haraldsdóttir works with painting, animation, video, and photomontage as a means to appropriate and restructure reality. An academically trained painter, she currently focuses on painting where the physicality of paint and colour create space, light, and shadow. Her work combines figurative motifs, abstract colour, and patterns with painterly finesse. The works often explore … Read more
1 OCT 2019 – 30 SEP 2020The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios is proud to welcome Yolanda Mazwana as the recipient of the Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary, generously funded by the Bag Factory alumni artist Sam Nhlengethwa.The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary offers an emerging/early career woman/womxn artist (under 35) a 12-month fully … Read more
1 OCT 2019 – 31 JAN 2020 Ronel de Jager’s work, which shifts between painting, sculpture and installation, deals with concepts of the fleeting, with environmental concerns, and with the notion of deep time. She examines our understanding of time, often by slowing down images culled from her own photographs and videography.Through an abiding interest in … Read more
2 SEP – 29 NOV 2019 Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a researcher, writer and emerging curator working in Harare. She is currently the Curator for Education and Public Programming at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare.She has worked on various projects for example Basket Case II, the Mawonero/Umbono publication, the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 56th Venice … Read more
2 SEP – 29 OCT 2019 A self-taught artist based in Kampala, Uganda. Her work is situated within the earnest expression of states of mind; mining her experiences with anxiety and depression to inform mixed media work. She explores mental health as illustrated by the interior worlds of women and has used art as a … Read more
Deadline: Sunday 10 March 2019, 22:00 (SAST)