The October 2026 catalogue brings together work from 24 South African and African artists exhibiting at Youngblood Africa’s Bree Street gallery in Cape Town. Browse paintings, textile and fibre art, sculpture, photography and mixed media.
This month also features ROOTS, a textile exhibition in dialogue between South African and Dutch artists, exploring identity, origin, memory and connection. Download the full catalogue for artist statements, sizes and prices.
ORY KATALAYIOry Katalayi Bwens, born in the DRC and raised in Cape Town, paints Suits & Ties, a collection exploring how tailored menswear carries stories of heritage, ambition and identity.
Eric ZuluEric Zulu’s portraits break the face into geometric patches of colour, exploring identity, heritage and resilience. His rural KwaZulu-Natal upbringing shaped his creativity and his belief in self-expression.
Melissa CloeteMelissa Cloete explores human emotion as overlapping layers of joy, tension and vulnerability, and tells a story of girlhood, ancestry and womanhood through the symbolism of the Nguni cow and its horns.
Ange AkomezoaAnge Akomezoa paints expressive portraits and vibrant florals that celebrate Black women as gardens in full bloom, symbols of growth, freedom and metamorphosis.
Mulberry PulseMulberry Pulse uses shells and natural forms to explore listening, memory and imagination, inspired by the childhood memory of hearing the ocean in a shell.
Allen LerouxAfter thirty years teaching fashion design, Allen Leroux paints large abstract canvases in bold primary colour, using sponges, trowels and squeegees to let go of control.
Gavin KendoNairobi-based artist Gavin Kendo paints dreamlike, nature-infused scenes of identity and rest, offering a vision of a healed Africa.
Lona NdzimandeLona Ndzimande’s layered portraits of Black womanhood, made with acrylic, Zulu glass beads and collage, balance intimacy, defiance and joy.
Ayola GoxoAyola Goxo paints surrealist and geometric compositions that turn scattered inner thoughts into carefully built images. A 2025 WORLDART10 winner.
Zolile PetshaneIn Brick by Brick, Zolile Petshane turns the language of economics into layered abstraction, and looks to the hustler and entrepreneur for the answer.
Peter WebberThe paintings are my young vision of Table Mountain and Cape Town's light, and the happiness it gives us, in shape, colour and sound.
John AdamsJohn Adams layers oil portraits with spray paint and raw texture. His series The Heart honours the women who have built Africa and emerged through the breaking.
SIBUSISO NGWAZIPainted in the Bo-Kaap, Praying Mantis explores where sacred reverence meets fluid movement, in a choreographic dialogue between tradition and abstraction.
CourtneyCreatuft is the tufted fibre art of a former film and television makeup artist, translating colour, light and texture into bold, tactile portraits and design pieces.
Gavin LarkinGavin Larkin creates fine art from figurative to complete abstraction, with much of his practice focused on experimenting with used and new materials and mediums while staying on the cutting edge of modern art.
SepidSechi Art Studio treats the book as something built and worn at the edges - forgotten books and handcrafted notebooks are folded and layered into sculptural installations that turn text into texture.
Michael Oliver LoveMichael Oliver Love's Changing Shape explores the relationship between light and shadow — the sun's passage across the sky captured in fleeting, transformative moments.
Berdine van der MeschtBerdine van der Mescht works with fragile, organic and discarded materials to ask what roots us to the earth, from a christening dress knitted from garden grass to figures scrounging through textile waste.
Gerda MöhrGerda Möhr uses fibre, felt and stitching to explore how family, language and migration shape identity, and how people and traditions change when transplanted into new soil.
Kathryn Harmer FoxKathryn Harmer Fox draws with fabric and thread, combining machine embroidery with unconventional materials such as used tea bags and driftwood to portray Africa’s wildlife and the expressive human face.
Linda RademanLinda Rademan is a Paternoster-based artist working in drawing, printmaking, embroidery and mixed media. Her work investigates memory and female identity within a historic context.
Monique Day-WildeMonique Day-Wilde makes monotypes from fynbos, seaweed and other natural finds, printed on papers including teabags. She adds stitching, drawing and collage to create an intimate response to the landscape she lives in.
Natasja De WetNatasja de Wet layers gauze, thread and stitching into monochrome work where fine roots spill from the frame, exploring vulnerability, release and new growth after the process of healing.
Justin DingwallJustin Dingwall is a South African photographic artist who transfers images onto fabric, then cuts, layers and hand-embroiders them, exploring identity, perception and what it means to be human.
