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Intraparadox, An Interview with Sello Letswalo. A New Perspective. PAM. 27 Feb 2026
Letswalo’s entry in the SASOL New Signatures Visual Arts Competition 2025 saw him enter works that depicted Mapantsula, a South African sub-culture. This thematic shift is the focus of the present interception. →
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Intraparadox, Interview with Admire Mathebula. Dawn. PAM. 27 July 2024.
Art practitioners such as Admire Mathebula are part of a cohort of Fine Arts graduates who have went on to play a role in contributing to the artworld through supportive practices that enhances the work of major figures in our industry today. Through her work at the Artists’ Press she has worked on editions alongside… →
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Intraparadox, Interview with Jan Van Der Merwe. Transient Matter. PAM.14 June 2024.
The simple philosophy that coalesced Doctor Jan van der Merwe’s teaching methodology for more than three decades at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Faculty of Arts and Design, encouraged artists to work from their original vision, to speak from the heart and not to be swayed by trends or what the art world deemed popular. →
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Intraparadox, Zanele Montle, a pentagonal-xperience
In the context of the Turbine Art Fair 2022, which is in its tenth year running, I reached out to Mme Zanele Montle, a contemporary artist based at August House, Johannesburg. Her work is featured in the Lizamore & Associates booth at the fair this weekend in an exhibition aptly titled Young Spirits. I’ll confess,… →
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Intraparadox, Sello Letswalo, a hexagonical experience
Sello Letswalo, now based in Johannesburg continues to explore steel sheet as an alternative to canvas. This correspondence occurred in the context of sequel to ‘O; Foreman, his solo exhibition that took place at Trent Art Gallery last year. Follow Intraparadox on Twitter and Facebook @mmutleak →
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Intraparadox, An Interview with Andrea du Plessis, Interplay Origins
In this interception, I have a conversation with the artist herself following her winning of SASOL New Signatures Art Competition 2021. Our conversation traces her earlier attempts at entering the art competition, the development of her art practice and the evolution of the ideas and techniques that made Paloceae Lupantoza come into being. →
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Intraparadox, An Interview with Sello Letswalo, O’ Foreman
In this interception, I have a conversation with Sello Letswalo following his recent pop-up exhibition, O’ Foreman, at Trent Gallery, in Tshwane. The artist asserts that in that exhibition, he was preoccupied with Totems as forms of identity, their connection to our lineage and, to a certain extent, our customs. →
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Hosea Matlou: Towards Simplicity
Arriving in Gauteng – Tshwane in the new century Matlou hailed from Polokwane in Ga-Sekgopo district. His plans initially were to study Finance and accounting at Tshwane University of Technology (then Pretoria Technical College). With minimum training in the visual art received from sessions attended at a community based art project Matlou left the institution… →