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Balekane Legoabe, Tide Pools, 2021. Mixed media on archival paper, 30 x42cm, Gallery 2

2021

Artful Chance Encounters

29 June - 16 January 2022

Pierneef’s Journey

The symbols of Rembrandt, Rorke’s Drift and Ardmore

3 August - 28 November 2021

Portrait Award / 2021

4 September - 28 November 2021

Bonnie Ntshalintshali (1967-1999) Daniel and the lions Serigraph 8/50 Rupert Art Foundation Collection

136, BREE STREET, CAPE TOWN TALK TO THE TREES ATTIE ESTERHUIZEN 01/11/2021 UNTIL 30/11/2021 WWW.THELADDERON136.COM/

NEW SUMMER EXHIBITION, 11 HUGUENOT ST

OLIVIÉ KECK - PLAYING WITH CATASTROPHE OPENING 6PM TO 8PM, 04/11/2021 4/11/2021 TO 6/12/2021 WWW.131AGALLERY.COM

BODY – PLACE – SPACE 3RD YEAR STUDENT EXHIBITION 04/11/2021 UNTIL 31/01/2022 VIEW AND BUY ONLINE WWW.ARTISTPROOFSTUDIO.CO.ZA

THROUGH THE WINDOW A COLLECTION OF VISUAL NARRATIVES 06/11/2021 UNTIL 26/02/2022 WWW.GALLERY2.CO.ZA

PAUL WEINBERG EARTHSONGS – A NEW EXHIBITION AND BOOK 05/11/2021 UNTIL 05/12/2021 THE MELROSE GALLERY JHB WWW.THEMELROSEGALLERY.COM

TAMLIN BLACK, MARLISE KEITH & HANNEKE BENADE JUMP 07/11/2021 UNTIL 27/11/2021 RKCONTEMPORARY.COM

GROUP EXHIBITION FROM THE ROOIELS AREA AT OLD LUTHERAN CHURCH, 138 DORP STREET, STELLENBOSCH OPENS 07/11/2021 AT 11:00 AM 07/11/2021 UNTIL 23/01/2022

LOOKING AT LONG STREET AND OTHER CITY PAINTINGS… JOHN KRAMER OPENS 08/11/2021 WWW.CAPEGALLERY.CO.ZA

SASOL NEW SIGNATURES EXHIBITION OF WINNING WORKS 11/11/2021 UNTIL 09/01/2022 WWW.SASOLNEWSIGNATURES.CO.ZA

THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANTIQUE, ART & DESIGN ASSOCIATION / 13/11/2021 - 14/11/2021 10:00 – 18:00 DAILY THE MASLOW HOTEL, CORNER RIVONIA ROAD & GRAYSTON DRIVE, SANDTON / FREE ENTRY WWW.SAADA.CO.ZA

Paul Weinberg, EARTHSONGS, Exhibition and book launch 5 November, 05 December 2021 The Melrose Gallery JHB

CERAMICS SA WESTERN CAPE REGIONAL EXHIBITION 14/11/2021 UNTIL 10/12/2021 WWW.RUST-EN-VREDE.COM

ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW CURATED GROUP EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN ART 25/11/2021 UNTIL 10/01/2022 WWW.CAPEPALETTE.CO.ZA

SPECIAL EVENT 27/11/2021 CREATE YOUR OWN TAPESTRY WITH ANDIE REEVES RESERVATION IS ESSENTIAL WWW.LA-MOTTE.COM

A BOOK ON THE THIRTY-YEAR ART PRACTICE OF LUAN NEL WILL BE LAUNCHED AND A BROAD SELECTION OF THE ARTIST’S WORK WILL BE ON DISPLAY FOR FOUR DAYS ONLY. OPENING 24/11/2021 AT 6PM 24/11/2021 UNTIL 29/11/2021 WWWNELART.CO.ZA

PRICES TO GIVE CHEER: ART TREASURE TROVE SMALLER BUT STUNNING ARTWORKS ON EXHIBITION, GOING FOR LOW PRICES SO THAT EVERYONE CAN GET A SPECIAL GIFT THIS HOLIDAY. 27/11/2021 UNTIL 08/01/2022 WWW.THEVIEWINGROOM.CO.ZA

THE ISLAND CHLOE TOWNSEND, JOH DEL, KIRSTEN BEETS, LUCY STUART-CLARK,TARA DEACON 01/12/2021 UNTIL 23/12/2021 WWW.SALON91.CO.ZA

THE SUMMER EDITION THE MAGICAL CREATIVE HUB OF PRINCE ALBERT IS ALWAYS A TREAT 30/12/2021 UNTIL 02/01/2022 WWW.PRINCEALBERTOPENSTUDIOS.CO.ZA

CELEBRATING AFRICA IN ALL ITS DIVERSITY AFRICAN HORIZONS SOLO EXHIBITION BY KOBUS WALKER 02/12/2021 UNTIL 12/01/2022 WWW.ARTATAFRICA.ART

BLOOM A SOLO EXHIBITION BY VANESSA BERLEIN UNTIL 14/11/2021 WWW.ARTINTHEYARD.CO.ZA

JACO ROUX | LUCINDA MUDGE | ARABELLA CACCIA 23/10/2021 UNTIL 15/11/2021 EVERARD-READ FRANSCHHOEK.CO.ZA

THE PRINTING GIRLS @ SA PRINT GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITION 09/10/2021 UNTIL 20/11/2021 WWW.PRINTGALLERY.CO.ZA & WWW.THEPRINTINGGIRLS.CO.ZA

PHATSHOANE HENNEY NEW BREED ART COMPETITION EXHIBITION 2021 SHOWCASING NEARLY 50 ARTWORKS BY 40 UPCOMING FREE STATE ARTISTS 05/10/2021 UNTIL 14/11/2021 WWW.NASMUS.CO.ZA/OLIEWENHUISTEMPORARY-EXHIBITIONS/

KIFF KHAYA RUAN JOOSTE SOLO EXHIBITION NOVEMBER 2021 WWW.DEEPESTDARKEST.COM

CLICK EXHIBITION SHOWCASINGS ESTABLISHED AND UP AND COMING LOCAL PHOTOGRAHERS 101 MEADE IN GEORGE 21/10/2021 UNTIL 21/11/2021 WWW.CAPEPALETTE.CO.ZA

ĀVĀHANA – INVOCATION, A SOLOEXHIBITION BY AMITA MAKAN 05/10/2021 UNTIL 14/11/2021 WWW.NASMUS.CO.ZA/OLIEWENHUISTEMPORARY-EXHIBITIONS/

EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES PHILIP STEELE PAINTS DECEASED MALE EROTIC STARS. UNTIL 20/11/2021 WWW.NELART.CO.ZA

HOPE: AN EXHIBITION CURATED BY RETIRED PRINCIPAL CONSERVATOR AT OLIEWENHUIS ART MUSEUM, LINDA WHEELER 04/10/2021 UNTIL 21/11/2021 WWW.NASMUS.CO.ZA/OLIEWENHUISTEMPORARY-EXHIBITIONS/

WHAT A BLOOMING MESS A SOLO EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS BY EMMA NOURSE 27/10/2021 UNTIL 27/11/2021 WWW.SALON91.CO.ZA

REFLECTION | REFRACTION | DISPERSION A SOLO EXHIBITION BY ANNAMIEKE ENGELBRECHT 17/10/2021 UNTIL 28/11/2021 WWW.GLENCARLOU.COM/ART-GALLERY

IT’S [NOT] BLACK & WHITE A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION OF CERAMICS AND DRAWINGS WITH JP MEYER & ERIKA SUTER 17/10/2021 UNTIL 28/11/2021 WWW.GLENCARLOU.COM/ART-GALLERY

LOOKING IN STEPHEN ALLWRIGHT & RICHARD BUTLER BOWDON NOVEMBER 2021 WWW.EBONYCURATED.COM

ORDER AND CHAOS DRIAAN CLAASSEN NOVEMBER 2021 WWW.EBONYCURATED.COM

ON THIN ICE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND REFLECTING ON HUMANKIND’S PERSPECTIVES ON OUR OCEANS, OUR PLANET AND ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. 28/10/2021 UNTIL 28/11/2021 WWW.ARTATAFRICA.ART

BIO DIVERSITY ANDRÈE BONTHUYS & JENNY STRONG A CELEBRATION OF OUR RICH AND UNIQUE, BUT FRAGILE, LOCAL BIOMES, THE COURTYARD, HARBOUR ROAD, HERMANUS 28/10/2021 UNTIL 29/11/2021 WWW.HERMANUSFYNARTS.CO.ZA

OFENTSE SESHABELA SMOKING GUN NOVEMBER 2021 WWW.ECLECTICACONTEMPORARY.CO.ZA

THE DARK ROOMS WOODSTOCK ANTHILLS ARTEFACTS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS SMALL LANDSCAPES 6 SPIN ST. CAPE TOWN 30/10/2021 UNTIL 30/11/2021 WWW.NICFREDMAN.COM

AND THEY CAME RUNNING A PORTFOLIO OF IMAGES OF THE SURI TRIBE IN ETHIOPIA BY SAMANTHA REINDERS UNTIL 01/12/2021 WWW.PRINCEALBERTGALLERY.CO.ZA

ALEXANDRA KARAKASHIAN CONSOLATIONS 09/10/2021 UNTIL 04/12/2022 WWW.SMACGALLERY.COM

CONGRESS: THE SOCIAL BODY IN THREE FIGURATIVE PAINTERST TREVOR MAKHOBA, GEORGE PEMBA & STHEMBISO SIBISI 02/10/2021 UNTIL 10/01/2022 WWW.NORVAFOUNDATION.ORG

CELEBRATING 35 YEARS CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN A ND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS NOVEMBER 2021

RIGHT MUKORE & MTHOBELI AARON BAKANA: WOOD SCULPTURES 20/09/2021 UNTIL 26/02/2022 WWW.IRMASTERNMUSEUM.CO.ZA

CELEBRATES DIVERSE TALENT FROM ACROSS THE AFRICAN CONTINENT ABSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS (SANAVA ONLINE EVENT HOSTED ON THE ABSA ART HOTSPOT / NOVEMBER 2021 WWW.ARTHOTSPOT.ABSA.AFRICA

40 HUGUENOT RD ART REFLECTS BOTH THE ROOTS OF THE FRENCH FARMING AREA AND THE MODERN CULTURAL TOWN OF FRANSCHHOEK ONGOING WWW.PALETTESCULPTUREGALLERY.CO.ZA

THREADS OF SYNERGY SOUTH AFRICAN TAPESTRY ART TAPESTRIES BY THE STEPHENS TAPESTRY STUDIO OF ARTISTS ROBERT HODGINS, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, SAM NHLENGETHWA, CECILY SASH AND CECIL SKOTNES. UNTIL WINTER 2022 WWW.LA-MOTTE.COM/PAGES/MUSEUM

Johannesburg artist Drew Lindsay. (Photo: Gail Wilson) By Stephen Faulkner / Published 18 Oct 2021 dailymaverick.co.za

In the middle of a pandemic, when so many have passed away in circumstances too terrible to contemplate, often leaving behind, as one friend expressed in poetry, “the sour taste, of not being able, to say goodbye” — it seems especially difficult to bid farewell to someone who was so very special to so many people, but I am going to try. On 13 October 2021, we had a call from Cati, our friend and neighbour of more than 20 years about the passing of Drew (Andrew) Lindsay, a lifelong friend of hers, from what appears to have been a repeat of an episode of heart failure. Many friends outside South Africa will probably have never heard of Drew, but a walk around Joburg and many other locations countrywide will find evidence of his work.

He was a community artist most of his adult life. He established, ran and lived at the Spaza Art Gallery in Troyeville, one of the poorest parts of our city, and which for almost 20 years has been home to countless art workshops, first-time and more established exhibition openings, a tea garden, music and poetry events, comedy, dance classes, sublime food and gatherings of every description.

Artwork by Drew Lindsay in Bertrams, Johannesburg. (Photo: Dionne MacDonald) Perhaps most importantly of all, The Spaza was a place where people from all backgrounds, and especially those who had very little, could enjoy a space where creative activity and thinking, contemplation and sometimes raucous Sunday afternoons were open to them.

Along with so many others, I made many lasting and deeply valued friendships under Drew’s roof and via his infectious facilitation and enthusiasm. He was a terrific artist in his own right, but was always “too busy” and, frankly, far too humble to really promote himself. His collaborative art projects, involving many of those he helped train, are all over this city and beyond. Marvellous mosaics and rich murals and glorious sculptures of footballers and miners, and so much more. His alternative maps of our city were artworks in themselves!

But there was also so much not in the public arena. His dance classes at old-age homes for those who were physically or mentally challenged are a case in point. My motherin-law, recently deceased, loved his classes despite the onset of dementia. Drew would call, excited and thoroughly delighted after a class, and say, “Gwen was so animated today and giggled for almost the whole session.” There was never a question of payment. Ever.

More recently, his mosaic and postermaking classes with recyclers and wastepickers built on his extensive creative work in the workers’ movement, for which he had a very special affection. His quiet and gentle demeanour was simply irresistible. And he made art accessible. I would hazard a guess that more people in Joburg have artworks in their homes that originated at or via The Spaza than any other gallery.I do hope his oldest and dearest friends in the arts community will be able to catalogue all of the work he initiated and a record of his contribution can be made. He would blush at the very thought, I am sure.

As all creatives know, the world of the arts is a very precarious one. It demands so much, by so many, for so little. Despite this, or maybe because of it, Drew invariably put other people’s needs before his own. A serious heart complaint a few years ago did not deter him, despite the concerns of those who loved him. When recovered, he started up again with a head full of ideas and was busy right up to the point of his departure. It is not only the gentle six-footer’s presence among us that we shall miss, but also the knowledge that he literally made life worth living for so many. And what a life!

Just a few days ago, he put up two small mosaics on our street, one opposite the house of another artist he was very fond of who tragically passed away some years ago, and one opposite our home, a little mosaic dog. Both now stand to remind us that we have all lost a good soul, perhaps when we needed him most.

Hamba kahle, Drew. Go well, in love and solidarity. DM

Stephen Faulkner is a lifelong trade union activist.