Cape Town Art Catalogue – September 2026. Youngblood Africa's latest exhibition features new paintings, photography, ceramics and mixed media from 16 South African and African artists, showing now at our three-storey gallery on Bree Street, Cape Town. Browse the artist statements below, or view the full Cape Town art catalogue as a downloadable PDF.
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.
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.
Faye DubinskiSelf-taught artist Faye Dubinski brings a lifelong sensitivity to movement and the body to her visual practice — rooted in a background spanning professional dance, theatre, and arts administration. Her recent body of work, Golf Fever, traces humanity's restless hunger for success, exploring how unchecked desire transforms aspiration into extraction, and abundance into emptiness.
Julian HallJulian Hall's Surface Studies explores material, texture and surface through a reduced visual language - combining acrylic paint with sand, dirt, concrete, and charcoal to investigate how different substances behave on canvas.
DION CUPIDODion Cupido responds directly — and unapologetically - to the fractured realities of contemporary life, using painting as a space where ambiguity is not only allowed, but necessary.
HAGE MUKWENDJEHage Mukwendje is a Namibian visual artist based in Windhoek, working in mixed media that combines painting with newspaper collage to explore identity, history, and social narrative.
