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

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In this short article I will limit myself to the viewing of four installations included in the exhibition as I feel that they specifically demonstrate Ingrid Bolton’s competent manipulation of copper as an artistic medium and they also represent the continuity of the artist’s artistic approach in her art making which I hazard to call the ‘concretization of scientific themes within the visual art domain’.… Read More Connect Disconnect