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Guy Du Toit | Hareloom⁣⁣Everard Read Cape Town⁣7 October - 28 October 2026⁣⁣Everard Read Cape Town presents a collection...
16/10/2026

Guy Du Toit | Hareloom⁣
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Everard Read Cape Town⁣
7 October - 28 October 2026⁣
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Everard Read Cape Town presents a collection of new bronze sculptures by renowned South African artist Guy du Toit.⁣
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In an age of extraordinary technological ambition, political absurdity and increasing estrangement from ourselves, du Toit’s sculptures offer a welcome reminder of something far simpler: what it means to be human.⁣
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For more than a decade, his hares have served as our proxies. Curious, vulnerable, resourceful, eccentric and endlessly inventive, they inhabit the space between the animal and the human, allowing us to recognise ourselves from a slight distance. They invite us to laugh at our foibles while reminding us to cherish them.⁣
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There is humility in these works, but also mischief. ⁣
Against the hubris of our age, du Toit proposes humour, not as an escape, but as a means of seeing ourselves more clearly. His hares contemplate, embrace, read, offer flowers and simply carry on, quietly affirming the value of tenderness, curiosity and connection.⁣
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Perhaps this is du Toit’s greatest achievement: turning us into hares so that we might see ourselves again, inviting us, with a smile, to be more human, not less.⁣
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On view at Everard Read Cape Town until 28 October 2026.⁣
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Images, credit: Michael Hall⁣
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Denby Meyer | This Corner of the Earth⁣⁣Everard Read Franschhoek⁣10 October - 31 October 2026⁣⁣"These paintings are a ce...
14/10/2026

Denby Meyer | This Corner of the Earth⁣
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Everard Read Franschhoek⁣
10 October - 31 October 2026⁣
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"These paintings are a celebration of the diversity and beauty of South Africa, and of the deep appreciation I have come to feel for living in this place on the southern tip of Africa.”⁣
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In a world increasingly marked by complexity and uncertainty, Meyer turns his attention to the landscapes immediately around him, finding renewed appreciation in the extraordinary beauty of the familiar.⁣
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From the dramatic summer skies of the bush to the remarkable light of the Karoo and the beaches and sunsets of the Cape, his latest body of work emerges from a heightened awareness of place and the richness found in simply paying attention.⁣
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Rather than seeking an escape from the world, these paintings offer a moment of pause within it. Each work responds to a particular landscape and the feelings it evokes, exploring the relationship between our surroundings and our inner lives, and nature's capacity to offer stillness, perspective and renewal.⁣
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Together, the works form a personal reflection on a landscape of extraordinary beauty, complexity and possibility, and the enduring sense of connection it offers.⁣
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We invite you to experience Meyer's latest solo exhibition at Everard Read Franschhoek, on view until 31 October 2026.⁣
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Lucinda Mudge | Collectors⁣⁣Everard Read Johannesburg⁣1 October - 31 October 2026⁣⁣For Lucinda Mudge, each exhibition un...
12/10/2026

Lucinda Mudge | Collectors⁣
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Everard Read Johannesburg⁣
1 October - 31 October 2026⁣
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For Lucinda Mudge, each exhibition unfolds as a collection, with works accumulating and evolving gradually over the course of a year.⁣
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In her ceramics, the unpredictability of the process becomes integral to the collection. The unexpected sits alongside the carefully resolved, the strange beside the beautiful, each piece contributing to the whole.⁣
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Her bookshelf paintings follow a similar logic, assembled over time as inventories of the mind, where memories, instincts, wit and wounds coexist.⁣
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Together, these works reflect the nature of collecting as an extension of living, shaped by the people, objects and experiences we gather and lose along the way. Yet, amid these reflections on time and impermanence, Mudge maintains an enduring commitment to joy. Her work embraces the complexities of lived experience while ultimately celebrating the pleasure, humour and shared moments that give life its richness.⁣
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On view until 31 October 2026.⁣

Installation Images, Credit: Anthea Pokroy
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Karel Nel | Translucent Worlds⁣⁣Everard Read Johannesburg⁣2 September - 19 November 2026⁣⁣Karel Nel’s practice has long ...
09/10/2026

Karel Nel | Translucent Worlds⁣
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Everard Read Johannesburg⁣
2 September - 19 November 2026⁣
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Karel Nel’s practice has long occupied a space where art, science and the mysteries of the natural world converge.⁣
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Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Nel is an artist, curator and scholar whose multidisciplinary career spans several decades. He studied Fine Art at the University of the Witwatersrand and St Martin’s School of Art in London, later undertaking a Fulbright placement at the University of California, Berkeley. Until 2017, he was Associate Professor at Wits University, and in 2018 was appointed Senior Advising Curator at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, where he has curated major exhibitions of influential South African and international artists.⁣
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Since 2004, Nel has also served as resident artist for the COSMOS astronomical project, working alongside scientists from around the world in an ongoing engagement with the phenomena and structures of the universe. This dialogue between scientific enquiry and artistic practice extends into the material language of his work, where substances including volcanic glass and baobab bark become part of a deeply considered exploration of matter, experience and the unseen.⁣
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Nel’s work is held in prominent collections internationally, including the South African National Gallery, the Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum.⁣
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We invite you to experience Karel Nel’s current solo exhibition, Translucent Worlds, at Everard Read CIRCA, where the works distil experiences gathered across the artist’s own life journey and, by extension, those of others.⁣
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Portrait images, credit: Anthea Pokroy⁣
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Everard Read Garden Exhibition at The Saxon Hotel.⁣⁣Everard Read is proud of its ongoing collaboration with The Saxon Ho...
05/10/2026

Everard Read Garden Exhibition at The Saxon Hotel.⁣
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Everard Read is proud of its ongoing collaboration with The Saxon Hotel, through which a selection of sculptural works by artists represented by the gallery is presented throughout the hotel’s gardens.⁣
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Thoughtfully positioned within the landscape, the works extend The Saxon’s art collection into the gardens, where sculpture enters into dialogue with its surroundings, shifting with changes in light, perspective and movement through the space.⁣
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The collaboration offers guests and visitors the opportunity to encounter, and acquire, significant works by Everard Read artists as they move through the gardens.⁣
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Featured works:⁣
Image 1: Deborah Bell | Unearthed VII⁣
Image 2: Speelman Mahlangu | Four Figures (Life-Size)⁣
Image 3: Dylan Lewis | S390 Fighting Leopard Pair IIII⁣
Image 4: Angus Taylor (1970-) | Sit⁣
Image 5: Guy Pierre du Toit | Work from Home⁣
Image 6: Deborah Bell | Unearthed VI⁣
Image 7: Lionel Smit | Shroud #4, Shroud #5 & Shroud #6⁣
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We invite you to discover the works throughout the gardens on your next visit to The Saxon.⁣
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Lucinda Mudge | Collectors⁣⁣Everard Read Johannesburg⁣1 October - 31 October 2026⁣⁣We invite you to join us this afterno...
01/10/2026

Lucinda Mudge | Collectors⁣
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Everard Read Johannesburg⁣
1 October - 31 October 2026⁣
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We invite you to join us this afternoon at 5pm for the opening of Lucinda Mudge’s solo exhibition, “Collectors”.⁣
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The works in this exhibition emerge through accumulation, built slowly over the course of a year as individual pieces gather meaning and find their place within the whole. For Mudge, this is particularly present in the ceramics, where the unpredictability of the kiln allows the strange to exist alongside the beautiful, the grimy alongside the polished, while the bookshelf paintings become less still lifes than inventories of a mind, assembled shelf by shelf with the same patience over time. In this sense, collecting becomes analogous to living itself: friendships are gathered and lost, families expand and contract, houses fill and eventually empty. The collection becomes not simply an arrangement of objects, but a way of understanding a life: “gathering what matters, losing what we must, and calling what remains a life.”⁣
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The opening will be followed by an artist-led walkabout with Lucinda this Saturday, 3 October, at 10:30am. Moving through the exhibition in conversation with the artist will offer further insight into the year-long process of its making, the unpredictability inherent in her ceramic practice, and the personal histories and observations that have accumulated within the works.⁣
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We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery this afternoon, and to continuing the conversation with Lucinda on Saturday.⁣
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Lucinda Mudge | Collectors⁣⁣Everard Read Johannesburg⁣1 October - 31 October 2026⁣⁣The works in this exhibition emerge t...
30/09/2026

Lucinda Mudge | Collectors⁣
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Everard Read Johannesburg⁣
1 October - 31 October 2026⁣
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The works in this exhibition emerge through accumulation. Built slowly over the course of a year, the collection takes shape in the studio long before it becomes a solo exhibition, allowing individual works to gather meaning and gradually find their place within the whole.⁣
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For Mudge, this process is particularly present in the ceramics. Some vases remain in the studio for a year, becoming familiar through daily encounter. Affection is not always immediate. The unpredictability of the kiln can produce colours and surfaces far removed from what was anticipated, yet it is precisely this lack of control that gives the collection its character. The strange exists alongside the beautiful; the grimy alongside the polished.⁣
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The bookshelf paintings operate as collections in their own right, assembled with the same patience over time. What accumulates shelf by shelf becomes less a still life than an inventory of a mind: earliest instincts beside later ones, wit beside wounds, each occupying its place within a larger personal archive.⁣
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In this sense, collecting becomes analogous to living itself. Friendships are gathered and lost, families expand and contract, houses fill before eventually emptying and dispersing. What remains is a record of what has been accumulated, relinquished and carried forward.⁣
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The exhibition ultimately approaches the collection not simply as an arrangement of objects, but as a way of understanding a life: “gathering what matters, losing what we must, and calling what remains a life.”⁣
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We invite you to join us tomorrow afternoon at 5pm for the opening of “Collectors”.⁣
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Ruby Bailey, Matthew Michael, Jaden Wells | THE SHAPES OF REMEMBERING⁣⁣⁣Everard Read Cape Town⁣9 September - 30 Septembe...
28/09/2026

Ruby Bailey, Matthew Michael, Jaden Wells | THE SHAPES OF REMEMBERING⁣⁣
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Everard Read Cape Town⁣
9 September - 30 September 2026⁣⁣
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Within the current generation of young South African artists there are those whose practices engage with identity and fragmented memory. Works shaped by symbolic languages and open-ended imagery are invitations for viewers to form their own interpretations rather than follow a fixed narrative. Sometimes, however, concurrently woven within these conceptual approaches is a strong investigation into more traditional realism. Whether depicting psychological, remembered or imagined spaces, the three artists included in this exhibition also draw from personal experience while remaining attentive to observation and representation.⁣
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Their practices flow between abstraction and realism, exploring the relationships between perception and reality, internal memory and external presence. 'The Shapes of Remembering' brings together three such artists: Jaden Wells, Matthew Michael and Ruby Bailey. Together, these artists demonstrate how these discrete languages need foundationally to coexist, offering distinct yet complementary ways of understanding identity, experience and the worlds around them.⁣
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Featured artists include:⁣
Jaden Wells | Permanent Impermanence⁣
Matthew Michael | Do Not Torque to Remember⁣
Ruby Bailey | I'm Telling Myself the Story of My Life...⁣
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On view at Everard Read Cape Town until 30 September.⁣
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Karel Nel | Translucent Worlds⁣⁣Everard Read Johannesburg⁣2 September - 19 November 2026⁣⁣“The complex process of drawin...
25/09/2026

Karel Nel | Translucent Worlds⁣
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Everard Read Johannesburg⁣
2 September - 19 November 2026⁣
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“The complex process of drawing, for me, is a way of trying to understand, to grasp both the manifest and the ineffable. This interest in the world and its shifting paradigms has led to a lifetime of journeying, thinking, connecting with others, and always drawing. While the finished drawings are undertaken with great precision, they are also infused with the ungraspable, created by vanishing points and shifts in perspective. In Portrait of Per Wästberg, for example, the third library of his lifetime stands in for him: each coloured line, the spine of a book, represents a world that he has read and entered, as head of the Nobel Literary Committee for almost two decades. The black and white works, begun as rubbings on the pavements and columns of Paris, evoke after-images of Brancusi’s studio in Dreams and Tools, Impasse Ronsin, Paris, as well as the forest shrines of Uji and Kyoto, visited in the previous year, in Unfolding Worlds, Kyoto/Paris.⁣
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The works on this exhibition are distillations of experiences gathered from my own life’s journey, and by extension from those of others.”⁣
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We invite you to experience “Translucent Worlds” in person, on view until 19 November.⁣
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Installation images, credit: Anthea Pokroy⁣
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