SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

This afternoon, five merit award winners, a runner-up up as well as the overall winner for this year’s edition of SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition have been announced through an opening ceremony presided over by Ms. Nozipho Mbatha, Group Brand Sponsorship Senior Manager for SASOL. Tammy Lee Baikie (Johannesburg), Rebecca Louise (Beck) Glass (Tshwane), Snelihle Asanda Maphumulo (Gqeberha), Vian Mervyn Roos (Pretoria) and Sarah Volker (Gqeberha) walked away with merit awards worth R 10 000. While Thabo Treasure Mofokeng (Johannesburg) was announced as the runner-up, walking away with R 25 000, Juandré van Eck (Gqeberha) was confirmed as the overall winner for 2025.… Read More SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

03 September, 202506 September, 2025 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Intraparadox Side Bar…

Jan van der Merwe and Janine Allen have a new project exhibition opening at Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, in Tshwane, and Olwethu de Vos will unveil her latest project on 28 August in Johannesburg.… Read More Intraparadox Side Bar…

22 August, 202523 August, 2025 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

The flow of magic

If you had a chance to stand on the terrace of Atteridgeville Community library of yester yore; lulled by a pungent of a freshly manicured lawn whose pathway was lined with flowers, you looked across a busy roundabout, to face Mazakhele. That neighbourhood, in an inclination, continuously sprawled westward.

On your near right hand side would be an array of matorokisi coaches shops which consisted of a Hardware, Café, Diary Shop, Butchery and a shop that sold odds and bits you could find in the first three shops. What a snapshot tinged with sepia tones of nostalgia. But no bookshop.
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28 December, 202317 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Limbo

These days a Friday does not signify the end of the week that has been or a reflection of the challenges past and the anticipation of what’s coming. The transition between these markers of time zones are blotted out. Everyday feels like just like any other day. The days come and go. The markers are restricted to the family happenings.… Read More Limbo

22 August, 202024 August, 2020 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox2 Comments

Artbud

Following establishment of traditional art galleries, art museums, art competitions, art fairs, art residencies and art project spaces that doubles up as artists studios the next frontier is the development of an art marketing within the new moneyed people of our country who have never seen the visual arts as an investment area… Read More Artbud

18 December, 201824 December, 2018 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Absence

‘the state of being away from a place or person’ At this time of the year people make resolutions to do better in the New Year. For a guy who does not make resolutions I think it is great if the resolutions that they have made the previous year have been realized even if it… Read More Absence

10 December, 201824 December, 2018 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

The Writerly Bug Juice: An Eulogy for Bok

The power of memory is able to jolt scenes into stark relief without their sources except the impressions left behind by byways that lead us there time and time again for a lifetime.… Read More The Writerly Bug Juice: An Eulogy for Bok

02 August, 201612 May, 2021 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

#theWriterlyBugJuice(v)31/03/16-The Shadow of the big boss

Critical distance affords those who watch unfolding events from a distance a vantage viewpoint. For the actors in the unfolded events only in hindsight can they make sense of the nexus of those events. We were not actually sure but it was there, like a hunch that everybody feels at the same time but… Read More #theWriterlyBugJuice(v)31/03/16-The Shadow of the big boss

01 April, 201606 April, 2016 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox