When I think of the visual articulation of South African fashion, design and art in the last decade - Gabrielle...
Interviews
Skateboarding as a Pure Form of Physical Expression with Yann-Xavier Horowitz
As someone who has never done more than a feebly attempted glide across a tarmac street on a skateboard, but that has...
A ‘Visual Returning’ with photographer Celeste Jacobs
In an age where just about anyone can be self-styled as a photographer (smartphones and all) - and where all of our...
The Spellbinding Sustainability of Alexa Schempers’ label ‘Rethread’
Alexa Schempers was always meant to be in fashion. Design as a pathway into the industry is usually set on a course...
Alexander James – Memory as the Artist’s Muse
It is not often that I get to interview someone for a second time, but it is a special thing to do, particularly in...
Alexander Alien on building his digital and musical ‘off-world’ visions
The term ‘multi-hyphenate’ can feel like a nondescript buzz word, thrown around to evoke a layer of complexity to a...
Karabo Morule’s Capital Art makes the critical case for collection-management in the African arts
The art industry can appear, like so many industries, as a kind of unknowable mirage; somewhat intimidating or...
Tatenda Chidora’s commitment to ‘Africanism’
Tatenda Chidora’s biographical epitaph on Instagram reads, ‘I believe in AFRICANISM’. This conviction is palpable in...
A Fall/Winter Fashion Week Retrospective with South African Photographers Cris Fragkou and Tsele Nthane
South Africans are killing it. As the core of what we dialogue at Connect Everything Collective; it is often no...
Buqaqawuli Nobakada paints so her younger self can dream
Buqaqawuli Nobakada’s mixed media works are poignant expressions of the Black, female experience. Her works define...
Crafting The Vision with Shaquille-Aaron Keith
Shaquille-Aaron Keith is a polymath in the true sense of the word. It is one thing to be creative and to have a handle...
Porky Hefer’s Evocative Ability for Humour
Porky Hefer’s work exists as a bridge between the natural world and us humans - our need for design, and incisive...