The countdown begins! Cannonball Press will be arriving at OR Tambo International in less than four weeks. In the run up to the Oppikoppi festival Cannonball will take over the gallery and printworkshop space, producing woodblock prints with a host of emerging and established South African artists and building an installation in the gallery. Waddy [...]

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The pre-Crapalite Brotherhood has just returned home. To recover from their wildly successful opening Johan Engels and Robert Whitehead escorted their esteemed guest Pamela Lady Harlech to one of their beloved hideaways. Groot Mariko is a small town in the North West Province known by most as a favourite setting for author Herman Charles Bosman. [...]

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On the 28th of July the Taxi Art Education Programme (TAEP) will be holding workshops at Rhodean Girls School at their annual Community Service Day. The team is working closely with Lene Lordan from the school to make the day a successful and enjoyable event. The team of facilitators for the TAEP have been preparing [...]

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Diane Victor’s art career has been on an upward trajectory since the moment she graduated from Wits University in the 1980s – a rise that can be attributed equally to her idiosyncratic iconography and her technical prowess in both drawing and printmaking. Victor is an obsessive artist employing figurative, narrative and expressive strategies in order [...]

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The conference opened with a brilliant rendition of popular songs by the St David’s School brass band, the last tune being ‘When the Saints go marching in’. A fitting salute to the work teachers do in South Africa and all over the world. Mrs. Graca Machel the keynote speaker highlighted the importance of learning in breaking the chains of poverty and in relieving the plight of children in Africa.

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The pic above is a Heidelberg 5-colour press, and that’s not me walking next to it! This is for those of you who have the faintest interest in book printing, presses, noisy machinery. Personally I love the sound of a large Heidelberg printing press, which is a good thing since I have to spend hours [...]

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I can hardly believe its mid-year already and all the learners are on holiday. This year has been a busy one for TAEP and many new and encouraging developments have come our way. We are growing from strength to strength and are aiming higher every time. So much has happened but I will pull out some of the highlights and share them with you.

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The Landmarks of Jozi project all started with the Landmarks of New York Exhibition hosted by the U.S Consulate at the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill. TAEP facilitators present at the exhibition started talking to Ismail Mahomed, who is the Senior Cultural Specialist at the US Consulate General.

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The TAXI Art Education Programme (TAEP) has embarked on a new venture in collobaration with Collect-a-Can. Environmental issues are at the forefront of the programmes goals for this year. The aim of the programme is to take care of the environment and to create awareness about environmental issues and creating solutions.

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The David Krut Print workshop has recently begun to offer elementary and advanced printmaking classes to the general public under the instruction of printmaker Niall Bingham. The classes are aimed at people from a range of different backgrounds, and no previous art-making skills are required.

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