Please note: There is no parking at the venue. Please use the Fair’s Park and Ride from the Old Edwardian Society, Houghton. There is also a Collect and Drop off section at the venue for Uber.
With the Sun On My Back – Cederberg – SoldWest Facing Slope – Cederberg – SoldCatchmentAlive With Ghosts TodayMake It A New World IIMake It A New World ILerato Holding her Child’s Toys Rotten Apple, Dump Cane and Abandoned Associate FlagTroubled WatersLabyrinthMorning LightMurmurationsSolastalgia
Karin Daymond’s work is strongly rooted in the South African landscape.
“Although a work starts from a geographical point, it quickly becomes my inner space. I live within this space even during more mundane activities. I become involved with the possibilities of paint and design; how they can be used to describe an environment, but also how the marks, textures, patterns can capture the energy and rhythm of both the external and internal landscapes that I associate with a place”.
She speaks of landscapes as having an emotional identity, for instance the vegetation in the Karoo is restrained and cautious, while the natural growth in the Lowveld of Mpumalanga is flamboyant. Intensive mark-making, patterning and colour create a world within a world. “Sometimes a landscape enhances my sense of self and how I belong, and sometimes it’s the other way around”. The exploration of belonging is central to much of her work, recently explored in the context of migrancy and refugeedom.
Daymond committed to her full–time art practice in 2008, following many years of teaching. Her primary medium is large-scale oil painting. Drawing and printmaking, particularly lithography, form an integral part of her work.
Daymond was born in 1967 in Durban, South Africa, and has a BA Fine Art from The University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her work is included in many public and private collections, both in South Africa and internationally. Amongst these are the UNISA collection and the University of the North-West.
Mongezi Ncaphayi was born in Benoni, Johannesburg in 1983. He obtained his Diploma in Art & Design from the Ekurhuleni East College, Benoni in 2004. He then attended Artist Proof Studio and completed a Professional Printmaking Certificate. Ncaphayi was awarded the Ampersand Foundation, a residency in New York in 2011, followed by a residency at Mixit Print Studio, Boston.
He obtained a Certificate in Advanced Studies from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He also won the Absa Atelier Gerard Sekoto prize, which provided him with a three month residency in the Cit’e in Paris. Ncaphayi’s work is in collections globally; including The Museum School of Fine Arts (MSFA), Boston, and Southern New Hampshire University, U.S.A, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France to name a few. Ncaphayi was recently one of the participating artists in the Lockdown Collection. An initiative to raise funds for Visual Artists during lockdown regulations in South Africa.
Ncaphayi’s work explores the socio-political history of South Africa, focusing on the history, culture, politics and subsequent displacement of the migrant mineworker. In reference to his artwork he says, “I’m focusing on the abstract, which may be the result in being displaced from my previous environment. As a Jazz musician I use music as a tool in my work for dealing with these situations, as would the migrant worker”
Detail of Photograph by: David Altman
Nhlanhla Nhlapo (b. 1988) grew up in Frankfort in the Free State. He moved to Pretoria to pursue his passion for art, where he studied Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology in 2015.
Nhlapo’s practice examines Dutch masters’ techniques and 17th century Dutch landscape painting as a point of departure, situating it in the South African landscape and his hometown of Frankfurt in particular and populating it with images from his family albums.
From 2013 – 2018, Nhlapo participated in various group exhibitions at amongst others, the Pretoria Arts Association (group show 2015 curated by Johan Conradie, Lizamore and Associates Gallery in Johannesburg, and Franschhoek’s Is Art Gallery, Knysna Fine Arts. Turbine Art Fair 2016-18, Hermanus Fine Arts Festival 2016, and a two-man show with Helena Hugo 2016 at Trent Gallery. From 2017-19, Nhlapo was a mentee in the Johannes Stegman Mentorship program, where he was mentored by Jaco van Schalkwyk.
Nhlapo presented a mini solo-show at the Woordfees Festival in 2018 where he was nominated as one of three artists for special mention in the Visual Arts Programme. In 2018 on residency, he collaborated with Louis Jansen van Vuuren from France. Nhlapo completed numerous portrait commissions for both private collectors and companies. He has most recently been commissioned by Unisa to make an Academic Portrait of Chairperson Mr Simelane. Over the years his work has been collected locally and internationally, specifically in France, the United States, California and Germany. In 2023 he participated at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair with Gallery 2, and in 2025 participated again with The First Light with Hope Gallery.
Jenny Stadler, (b.1938), is a full time South African abstract painter based in Parkwood, Johannesburg. She has a Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts and has exhibited extensively in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
While her work is primarily oil on canvas, Stadler occasionally uses found objects such as Lion matchstick boxes and Chappies bubble-gum wrappers which have a nostalgic significance to South African Pop-culture in her works. These found objects become immersed in the paintings.
Her abstract style and works are immediately recognisable as ‘Jenny Stadler works’. They carry an expressionist style in that they make use of vibrant colours, dramatic brushwork, and a thick application of impasto paint. Her works are emotionally loaded. She has a unique ability to capture a mood in every painting.
Her paintings are inspired by the African landscape and artefacts, Oriental textiles and ancient and contemporary art world-wide. Working intuitively through improvisation, she works directly onto the canvas. Although classified as abstract, figures and landscapes may be discerned in the works. Her titles are symbolic references, but it is the visual experience of the work and the way in which the painted surface approximates the movement and depth of natural configurations, that each painting evokes its unique spirit and feeling.
Wessel van Huyssteen is a full-time practising artist based in the Free State. van Huyssteen matriculated in 1980 at Voortrekker High School, Bethlehem, Free State. In 1985 he graduated with a BA Fine Arts (Cum Laude for Painting & Drawing) from the Free State University, later graduating with a BA Honours in Art History at Johannesburg University (1990). In 2017 he received his Master of Arts in Fine Arts with distinction from Wits University. Murmurations will be his 6th solo exhibition.
Wessel van Huyssteen in this powerful body of work brings together an exploration into landscape, materiality, and the marks of power left on our environment. Through intricate stitchings and paintings, Wessel invites us to reflect on how politics, capital, technology and craft shape both identity and ecology.
He transforms viscose, nylon, and rayon into complex, hand-stitched terrains. Each piece reveals the marks of power — from industrial farming to global capitalism — embedded in the landscapes we inhabit. These large layered stitchings — cut, sewn, re-sewn, and guided by the artist’s hand — create vivid, disrupted Geographies. The textiles combine repetitive machine rhythms, unpredictable fabric behaviours, and labour-intensive craft to form landscapes that echo politics, identity and environmental strain.
van Huyssteen’s work encourages viewers to consider the visual, conceptual and sensory qualities of his practice – from the imagined rhythm of the sewing machine to the layered surfaces and quiet persistence of craft. It is a powerful encounter between material and meaning that unfolds through attention and contemplation.
