Everard Read Cape Town

Everard Read Cape Town Art gallery in Cape Town dedicated to exhibiting the finest contemporary art from South Africa.

An Art Gallery in Cape Town dedicated to exhibiting the finest modern and contemporary art from South Africa and abroad.

WARREN MAROON | THE HANDSHAKE'S NOT WORTH THE GRIPUNTIL 11 APRIL 2026Visit the gallery to view the latest solo by the 20...
17/03/2026

WARREN MAROON | THE HANDSHAKE'S NOT WORTH THE GRIP
UNTIL 11 APRIL 2026

Visit the gallery to view the latest solo by the 2026 Investec Emerging Artist Award winner, Warren Maroon.

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📸Michael Hall
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‘The handshake’s not worth the grip’ examines the relationship of power through two ordinary objects: a hammer and a nail. One is a function of intent, the other serves as evidence of that.

Warren Maroon drives us to question what makes a tool such as a hammer successful in its action. A bending, sinking, disappearing effect. Its function depends on repetition, a relentless force striking until resistance gives way. The hammer’s authority is only successful with a yielding nail and that nail is only successful if it co-operates in a straight line. Any deviation such as a bend or a twist or a refusal renders the nail ineffective. It is discarded for one that better follows the rules.

Through this mundane exchange, a quiet system emerges. One object acts; the other receives. The hammer enforces its will through repeated action, through blows so ordinary they become procedural rather than violent.

By isolating these tools from the practical applications, the works on exhibition examine how authority is established and how repetition turns force into structure. The collection of sculptural installations and works on paper reflects on the subtle mechanics of human conditioning and how easily the roles of action and submission become embedded within the routine structures we inhabit.

LIZA GROBLER | WHERE SHOOTING STARS LIE | UNTIL 31 MARCH 2026Visit the gallery to experience the latest solo by Liza Gro...
16/03/2026

LIZA GROBLER | WHERE SHOOTING STARS LIE | UNTIL 31 MARCH 2026

Visit the gallery to experience the latest solo by Liza Grobler.
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A shooting star travels through deep space only to arrive as stone - its brilliance brief, its material ordinary. ‘Where shooting stars lie’ considers how value is formed through connection, friction and time.

The exhibition lingers in that shift: how spectacle settles into matter, and how matter gathers meaning.

The work presents splices of Klein Karoo spaces as atmospheric and distilled colour fields. Across painting, fibre, craft processes and modest materials, it collapses scale. The shooting star does not vanish. It lies resting within the landscape, within fibre, within touch. Luminous not for its spectacle, but for its capacity to transform the everyday.

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Installation photos by Mentz Germishuis

OPENING SOONDylan Lewis | New works | 7 - 28 March 2026Please join us 10.30-12.30 Saturday 7th March to view the latest ...
05/03/2026

OPENING SOON

Dylan Lewis | New works | 7 - 28 March 2026

Please join us 10.30-12.30 Saturday 7th March to view the latest collection of bronzes by Dylan Lewis.
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot – extract from 'Little Gidding'

Everard Read Cape Town is delighted to present a collection of new bronzes by Dylan Lewis. In these new works, Lewis returns to the charged territory where the animal form becomes a contemplative vessel for something older than language, a threshold between worlds. His animals are not merely observed – they are invoked. Through surface, texture and form, Lewis reveals the paradox of wild grace: power held in restraint, lithe explosiveness held in silence.

What emerges is less a depiction of species than a meditation on being. The leopard’s contained intensity, the cheetah’s fluid alertness, the buffalo’s obstinate aloofness & the prey’s quick-wittedness become mirrors for our own instinct, vulnerability, and the perpetual negotiation between control and surrender. These works invite us to recognize, in their quiet authority, a shared, untamed pulse. Lewis urges us to encounter not only the essence of these elusive cats but the deeper rhythms that bind all living things: attention, tension, release. The works linger like a held breath, reminding us that the wild is not elsewhere; it waits, attentive and enduring, within and all around us.

For over three decades, Lewis has cemented himself as one of the great sculptors of our time, and here again he presents a masterclass in manifesting these beautiful creatures, coiled with stillness and tense with intent. At once effortless and rhapsodic, with ferocity and vigour in every mark.

💫OPENING SOON💫Liza Grobler | Where shooting stars lie | 5 - 31 March 2026Please join us 6pm Thursday 5th March for the o...
05/03/2026

💫OPENING SOON💫

Liza Grobler | Where shooting stars lie | 5 - 31 March 2026

Please join us 6pm Thursday 5th March for the opening of the latest solo by Liza Grobler.
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A shooting star travels through deep space only to arrive as stone - its brilliance brief, its material ordinary. ‘Where shooting stars lie’ considers how value is formed through connection, friction and time.

The exhibition lingers in that shift: how spectacle settles into matter, and how matter gathers meaning.

The work presents splices of Klein Karoo spaces as atmospheric and distilled colour fields. Across painting, fibre, craft processes and modest materials, it collapses scale. The shooting star does not vanish. It lies resting within the landscape, within fibre, within touch. Luminous not for its spectacle, but for its capacity to transform the everyday.

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Artwork photos by Nina Lieska / Repro Pictures
Installation images Mentz Germishuis

CUBICLE JANUARY 2026 | 12-24 JanThis edition of Cubicle features🏵 Turning into Flowers | Oumie's Flowers 🏵📆 Discussion &...
15/01/2026

CUBICLE JANUARY 2026 | 12-24 Jan

This edition of Cubicle features
🏵 Turning into Flowers | Oumie's Flowers 🏵

📆 Discussion & projection portraits 11.00am Saturday 17 Jan

Join TURNING INTO FLOWERS this Saturday for 'A Botanist Remembers' where Rupert Koopman & Tiffani Kayler Dlamini discuss the flowerscapes of Mamre & Cape Town.

This will be followed by an opportunity for you to play with floral portrait projections.

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https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/400/exhibition_works/

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"In the veld we meet our beloved dead through the flowers they loved, through the touch and taste and scent of the plants they taught us. Our plant kin are interwoven through our lives not only in their properties and natural beauty but through our Aunties’ and Uncles’ and Ancestors’ love and knowledge of them. Through the things that they teach us about the land we walk and live on and the memories they hold of those who have gone before and who will come after."

Collective Turning into Flowers is a botanical dialogue between art and science that explores the heritage of flowers.

ARTIST TALKJoin botanical sculptor Nic Bladen for a discussion about his latest body of work, 'Grootbos', now on exhibit...
11/12/2025

ARTIST TALK

Join botanical sculptor Nic Bladen for a discussion about his latest body of work, 'Grootbos', now on exhibition.

🌿 11am Sat 13th December 🌿

A percentage of sales from the show will go to the Grootbos Foundation, with the vision of conserving the unique Cape Floral Kingdom and developing sustainable livelihoods, particularly in the Walker Bay region, through eco-tourism, enterprise development, sports development and education.

Concludes 3rd January.

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South African artist Nic Bladen has become known for his extraordinary botanical sculptures, which demonstrate the technique he pioneered of casting entire plants in bronze and sterling silver.

This new collection of botanical sculpture comes from , a private reserve situated in the far west of the Agulhas Plain within the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. With a plant list of more than 1,000 species, of which six are new to science and many are rare or threatened, Grootbos is a trove of botanical delights.

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FESTIVE SEASON HOURS:

Mon to Fri 09.00 -17.00
Sat 09.00 -13.00
Or by appointment

Tues 16th Dec CLOSED
Wed 24th Dec 09.00-14.00
Thu 25th and Fri 26th Dec CLOSED
Wed 31st Dec 09.00-14.00
Thu 1st Jan CLOSED

Installation photos: Michael Hall
Artist photo: Slater Studio

ARTIST WALKABOUTJoin Philip Barlow for a walkabout of his new solo 'split'10.30am Saturday 22nd Nov 2025.DM us to reques...
18/11/2025

ARTIST WALKABOUT

Join Philip Barlow for a walkabout of his new solo 'split'
10.30am Saturday 22nd Nov 2025.

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Exhibition concludes 27th Nov.

https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/386/
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‘split' explores the streets of Shanghai - an investigation into the realm of the seen and the unseen. This body of work continues to explore the intersection between the perceived and the concealed, the transitory and the ephemeral. The pursuit of a culmination of light, figures and cityscape creating a parallel universe and a transcendent moment.

This is my ongoing pursuit of what happens after the sun has set and explores the subtle transformations that emerge after dark, the capturing of ineffiable qualitites that hover just beyond the visible with all of its ambiguity and mystery.

Installation images by Michael Hall

OPENING SOONJOHN MEYER | A REMARKABLE JOURNEY: 50 YEARS AT EVERARD READ6 - 26 NOVEMBER 2025Visit Everard Read Cape Town ...
30/10/2025

OPENING SOON

JOHN MEYER | A REMARKABLE JOURNEY: 50 YEARS AT EVERARD READ
6 - 26 NOVEMBER 2025

Visit Everard Read Cape Town to view an exhibition of new paintings celebrating 50 years of John Meyer at Everard Read.

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https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/387/press_release/

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The most profound artists demand that we see the world through their eyes. Our relationships with our gods, our changing perceptions of beauty, and even our reactions to unspeakable cruelty have been profoundly guided by our greatest artists.

Landscape painting and the way we view and analyse the beauty of South Africa has been dominated for decades by a giant of realism in this country: John Meyer. Meandering dusty tracks etch the arid vastness of Meyer’s Karoo landscapes. An old gate signals the start of someone else’s land. Anyone who has spent time with John Meyer’s work finds it challenging to immerse one’s self in the haunting beauty of the Karoo, the Hex River in autumn or a waterlily-clad wetland in KwaZulu Natal without remarking that John Meyer must have passed there before. Such is the power of a truly profound landscape painter.

Not only is John Meyer a consummate painter of scenes devoid of visible humankind, but his fascination with people and the subtlety of human inter-relationships demanded that people insinuated themselves increasingly into his art over the decades. Meyer has been the greatest portraitist in South Africa of his era. His extraordinary facility with painting the human form has evolved inexorably from formal portraiture into a series of fascinating paintings of people – people at play, under duress and in love.

We at Everard Read are so proud to host this exhibition. Meyer’s work has been one of the defining aspects of the gallery for fifty years. A very rare relationship for the artist and all of us who work with him. This will be a long-remembered exhibition.

Mark Read 2025

ARTIST WALKABOUTJoin Rina Stutzer for a walkabout of her solo show 'Ephemeral Stream10.30am Saturday 25th Octoberhttps:/...
24/10/2025

ARTIST WALKABOUT

Join Rina Stutzer for a walkabout of her solo show 'Ephemeral Stream
10.30am Saturday 25th October

https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/377/

"Each artwork is, for me, an offering of gratitude for the transformative power of the natural world. The countless hours I spend painting are acts of care and devotion, each piece becoming an ode to ecological systems and natural forms — their fertility, abundance and shifting energies. This journey is both celebratory and unsettling, reminding me that the world is beautiful in its fragility and resilient in its strength."

Installation images by Michael Hall

Rina Stutzer | Ephemeral Stream | 8 - 29 OctVisit the gallery to view the latest solo by On until 29th October. DM us to...
16/10/2025

Rina Stutzer | Ephemeral Stream | 8 - 29 Oct

Visit the gallery to view the latest solo by
On until 29th October.

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https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/377/

📷 Michael Hall
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Each artwork is, for me, an offering of gratitude for the transformative power of the natural world. The countless hours I spend painting are acts of care and devotion, each piece becoming an ode to ecological systems and natural forms — their fertility, abundance and shifting energies. This journey is both celebratory and unsettling, reminding me that the world is beautiful in its fragility and resilient in its strength.

My practice grows from direct observation and exploration of the environments around me — whether close to my city studio or further afield in the veld and broader African landscapes. In these spaces I trace signs of interconnectedness, watching how streams converge into singular flows that bind us all within the ebb and surge of life.

The materials I choose embody impermanence. Patina on copper shifts in colour as it oxidises and erodes, while transparent paper paintings hold an inherent fragility. These choices reflect the vulnerability of ecosystems and the imprint of human presence.

The visual forms that emerge often appear as mirrored landscapes or fractured waterways. Shimmering ribbons of foil or translucent washes act as both celebratory markers and troubling intrusions — metaphors for our complex relationship with nature, at once sustaining and contaminating. In this way, the paintings invite reflection on how deeply entangled we are with the environment.

Through this work I have come to recognise not only the urgency of an environment under threat but also the nourishment the natural world continues to provide. Moments of fleeting transformation — the transient sublime — remind me that nature exists both around and within us. My paintings seek to create such moments of reconnection, offering a glimmer of relief and insight into the fragile, transformative beauty that shapes our shared world.📷

Thonton Kabeya | Missile Blues | 8 - 29 OctVisit us to view the latest solo by Thonton Kabeyaon until 29 October 2025.DM...
13/10/2025

Thonton Kabeya | Missile Blues | 8 - 29 Oct

Visit us to view the latest solo by Thonton Kabeya
on until 29 October 2025.

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https://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/exhibition/373/press_release/
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This exhibition features two bodies of work in Kabeya's signature style of sculpting canvas into vibrant imagery, with found objects and images incorporated or transferred onto the surfaces. Through both, Kabeya looks out how information can be encoded in visual languages.

With 'Missile Blues', Kabeya continues to explore the language and history of dance in African and South / Central American history. 'Mi Historia' investigates and celebrates the history of hair-styles and their ties to slavery, colonialism, identity and freedom.

"Hidden within the braids and within fabrics such as the raffia cloth of the Luba people, my ancestral lineage, exists a coded language with a rich and mysterious history. I am proud to translate this artistic and spiritual heritage for the modern observer.

"We free our bodies to dance, like Capoeira.
We keep our spirits to connect, like Voodoo.
We free our minds to design, like Raffia." - Thonton Kabeya

📷 Michael Hall

Address

3 Portswood Road, V & A Waterfront
Cape Town
8001

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00
Saturday 09:00 - 13:00

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