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This week on Artist in Frame — Behind the shield and spear lies a misunderstood tenderness. Through his work, Manelisi ...
06/05/2026

This week on Artist in Frame —

Behind the shield and spear lies a misunderstood tenderness. Through his work, Manelisi explores the complexities of growing up within a Zulu household — where culture, masculinity, duty, and identity continuously negotiate with modern society.

His practice reflects figures often misunderstood through a Western lens, yet deeply heroic within indigenous narratives. He draws us away from the language of our screens and back into the realities of community: the unappointed guardians who protect and shape society, the quiet power carried by women across rural and township spaces, and the masculine presence forged within labour, taxis, and the mining world.

His work is less about spectacle, and more about memory, responsibility, and the emotional architecture of everyday Black life.

Artist in Frame: In this body of work, Alpheus Ngoepe explores what cannot be said. Through colour and layered marks, h...
04/05/2026

Artist in Frame:

In this body of work, Alpheus Ngoepe explores what cannot be said. Through colour and layered marks, he turns silence into expression.

A quiet language of identity and vulnerability—where feeling takes form.f

What a beautiful experience it was — witnessing the meeting between artist and collector.We had the pleasure of welcomin...
30/03/2026

What a beautiful experience it was — witnessing the meeting between artist and collector.

We had the pleasure of welcoming our collectors from Austria, who shared a meaningful encounter with our artist, — a moment shaped by dialogue and connection.

They leave not only with a piece of art, but with a story that now travels with them back to Austria 🇦🇹

It serves as a reminder to us, as a gallery, that our role is to serve — not to gatekeep.

“Comfort of Softness” by Rodney Gee finds its new home in the Camps Bay residency —Sold 🔴
27/03/2026

“Comfort of Softness” by Rodney Gee finds its new home in the Camps Bay residency —Sold 🔴

A quiet watcher of the horizon.This striking giraffe portrait by David Bucklow captures the calm presence of one of natu...
05/03/2026

A quiet watcher of the horizon.

This striking giraffe portrait by David Bucklow captures the calm presence of one of nature’s most graceful animals. Removed from the vast landscape and placed against a soft horizon, the giraffe becomes almost portrait-like — meeting the viewer with a steady, thoughtful gaze.

Look closely and the details begin to speak. The slender ossicones, the softness of the eyes, and the finer shape of the face lean toward the suggestion of a female — a presence that feels gentle, composed, and quietly observant.

Tall and unhurried, the giraffe carries a natural dignity, observing the world with calm awareness.

A moment of stillness. A quiet presence.

A portrait that brings the quiet strength of the wild into a living space.

📍 Available at Camps Bay Gallery

UntitledMixed Media on Canvas150 x 150 cmIn this large-scale abstract work, Muso Masoabi moves beyond portraiture into a...
04/03/2026

Untitled

Mixed Media on Canvas
150 x 150 cm

In this large-scale abstract work, Muso Masoabi moves beyond portraiture into a freer, instinctive visual language. Layered textures, symbolic forms, and unrestrained strokes create a surface that feels both deliberate and spontaneous.

A radiant yellow form anchors the composition, while circular motifs suggest continuity and cycles of existence. Fragmented lines and shifting colour fields evoke memory and emotional movement rather than a fixed narrative.

Untitled, the work resists definition. It invites contemplation — presenting abstraction as an exploration of identity, experience, and the layered nature of human presence.

SOLD 🔴Heading to the Netherlands 🇳🇱This sale is significant not for its monetary value alone, but for what it represents...
18/02/2026

SOLD 🔴

Heading to the Netherlands 🇳🇱

This sale is significant not for its monetary value alone, but for what it represents.

Just over a month ago, we travelled to Soweto in search of the remarkable artist Sabelo Makhalipha —We just had a two months in gallery space with no with no market track record but only a clear vision. He believed in our vision, entrusted us with his pieces, and allowed us to steward his work into the market.

To witness this artwork find its home has been deeply rewarding. It also marks the gallery’s most significant sale to date — a quiet but meaningful milestone in our journey.

The power of collaboration lies in shared belief: when artist and gallery move with trust, intention, and patience, the work finds where it belongs.

We remain grateful to the collectors who support emerging voices and to the artists who place their trust in us.

There’s something about Cape Town that never leaves you.The quiet glow of the city at dusk.Table Mountain watching over ...
17/02/2026

There’s something about Cape Town that never leaves you.

The quiet glow of the city at dusk.
Table Mountain watching over it all.

This original oil painting captures that feeling — not as a photograph, but as a memory.

👨🏼‍🎨 Rodney Gee
📍 City of Cape Town
🎨 Oil on canvas
📐 1.5m × 0.9m

Available for private acquisition.

Petra Isabella reimagines Nelson Mandela beyond the gravity of history, dressing him in a vivid, almost ceremonial blaze...
10/02/2026

Petra Isabella reimagines Nelson Mandela beyond the gravity of history, dressing him in a vivid, almost ceremonial blazer—an intentional departure from his familiar statesman’s attire. The choice is neither decorative nor ironic; it is disruptive. Colour here becomes a philosophical device, loosening Mandela from the visual codes of struggle, sacrifice, and leadership that have come to define him.

Set against a luminous, blue-toned abstract ground, Mandela is suspended in a space that feels euphoric, interior, and unresolved—removed from society’s expectations and the moral architecture of destiny. This is not the Mandela of rallies or prisons, but a Mandela momentarily unbound, existing in a realm of possibility rather than obligation. The casual tie and shirt soften the figure further, drawing him closer to the ordinary, the intimate, the unknowable.

The work asks a question history never allows us to answer: What if Mandela had lived outside the calling? What if the role of liberator was not chosen, but imposed—an inheritance of circumstance rather than ambition? In this imagined world, Mandela is permitted to simply be, free from the symbolic weight placed upon him by nations, movements, and time itself.

Rather than diminishing his legacy, Isabella’s portrait expands it. By placing Mandela beyond the confines of normal society and historical expectation, she reminds us that greatness often eclipses the private self. What remains unseen—what might have been—is where this work finds its quiet power.

This work is presented in collaboration with , with profits generated from its sale allocated to the non-profit organisation , an organisation dedicated to the mental and spiritual well-being of young children.

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