William Kentridge
William Kentridge is undoubtedly the best known South African artist, currently in demand by major institutions all over the world. Working with what is in essence a very restricted technique - charcoal drawings with limited touches of pastel colour - Kentridge has deployed these drawings into an oeuvre of astounding depth. The drawings have been used as the basis for a series of animated films by the very simple technique of drawing, filming a few frames, erasing, then drawing some more and so on.

Sydney Kumalo
Sydney Kumalo, internationally known above all for his work as a sculptor, was born in 1935 in Johannesburg. From 1952 to 1959 he attended the sculpture classes of the London-born Cecil Skotnes, probably South Africa’s most famous artist, and of Eduardo Villa in the Polly Art Centre in Johannesburg. Kumalo’s works are also displayed in many public and private collections in South Africa, Europe and the USA. Sydney Kumalo was equally, if not more important in his function as a teacher; he, more than anyone else in South Africa, has influenced the generation born between 1950 and 1965.

Dylan Lewis
Born in 1964, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1982 he studied Fine Art at Cape Technikon in Cape Town. From 1985 – 1989 he studied painting under Ryno Swart, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town and mastered taxidermy and museum display. In 1995 he was invited to Cordova, Alaska to represent South Africa at Artists for Nature Foundation Expedition. In 1998 Lewis’s newly renovated Stellenbosch studio opening attended by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. He then commenced work for international travelling exhibitions and completed the monumental sculpture of White Rhino.

Fred Schimmel
Fred Schimmel is a much sought after artist. Over 40 years, he has earned himself an uncontested place in the South African art world. His more than 50 solo exhibitions and participation in numerous group exhibitions as well as the inclusion of his works in many private and public collections here and abroad, bears witness of this fact. His versatility as painter, graphic artist and designer and his masterly techniques reflect a continuous growth of creativity. In his abstract landscapes, colour, form and content are organically integrated so as to appeal both to the heart as well as the mind. 

Nicolas Moreton
Nicolas Moreton is one of the rare artists who is much loved by critics and public alike and that stern arbiter Brian Sewell says ‘he is among his
generation, unrivalled in technique’. He has been the subject of numerous articles and TV programmes as his uniquely original approach has the ability to provoke surprise as well as pleasure.

Durant Sihlali
Durant Sihlali worked across many media, and was one of the few contemporary artists who lived through the early years of the building of contemporary South African art. become widespread in the 1990s. He exhibited innovative installations at the first and second Johannesburg Biennales and his work continues to be sought out for important local and international shows. While he is a very significant figure in the founding generation of South African modernist art history, he has also been an important artistic force in post-Apartheid contemporary South African art (1990 to the present).

Anton Smit
With works permanently on display at the Pretoria and Pietersburg Art museums and major art galleries across the counrty, and the Anton Smit Sculpture Museum at the Millennium Art Gallery, Groenkloof, Pretoria, Anton Smit is fast becoming one of South Africa's more important sculptors.  International recognition came during 1990 in the form of exhibitions in Rome and Milan, an invitation to exhibit in New York and Hong Kong as well as a return exhibition in Italy in 1993. More exhibitions have followed in Bonn, Washington, Singapore and Koln.

Lionel Smit
Lionel Smit, son of Anton Smit, was born in Pretoria in 1982. He has been actively exhibiting since 1999, which include sculpture and painting. He has been very successful in exhibitions in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kempton park, Potchefstroom as well as internationally, namely in London, Los Angeles and Ireland. Lionel Smit's works are part of numerous corporate and private collections.

Johannes von Stumm
During a visit to Paris, Johannes von Stumm was deeply moved by the power and beauty which he saw in Rodin¹s sculpture; he immediately began to work figuratively with clay and plaster, first at home and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; six months spent in a quiet Italian village strengthened his desire to test the potential of glass, stone and steel combinations. His unique combination of these three different materials has attracted public and critical acclaim in a decade of successful exhibitions, both in Britain and abroad. His startlingly original sculpture, which engages continually with risk and a defiance of accepted laws, joins iron, granite and glass to create abstract or reduced figurative works in which apparently conflicting materials exist in complex harmony.

Frank Benson
Frank Benson was born in 1976 in Virginia, USA and he studied at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, and Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles. He participated in the world-touring Uncertain States of America - American Art in the 3rd Millennium curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist which was exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in 2007.

Stephane Graff
Stephane Graff primarily works in painting and photography. His oeuvres ranges from monochrome oil paintings to mixed media assemblage as well as adapting vintage photographic techniques such as gum dichromate and bromoil. Stephane worked in Morocco for five years, creating paintings and sculpture in mixed media such as sand, earth and pigments. Often abstract , with references to the crumbling walls of the ancient city, these paintings have an emphasis on surfaceand texture. The influence of ancient Egypt and African art often lend his works a primitive and tribal flavor. Other themes include a series of landscapes based on satellite images and a collection of platinum photographs titled Timeless Morocco.

Stephane's latest work can be viewed at: www.professore.co.uk

Solo Exhibitions
2007 75 Faubourg. Enrich Navarro, France- Black Box
2006 Hamiltons Gallery, London.- Invisible Ink.
2003 Dar Charifa, Marrakech - Les Remparts
2001 Studio show & book launch, London - Corps Anonyme
2000 Hirschl Contemporary Art Gallery, London. Land
1999 Blains Fine Art, London - Sandlines
1997 Fabian Fryns Gallery, Spain - Akhenaten’s Dream
1997 Michael Hoppen Photography, London Still Glass
1994 Burlington New Art Gallery, London - Sand Reliefs and Mummification's
1992 Hamiltons Gallery, London - Constrictions
1991 Museum of Mankind, London
1988 Roussos Gallery, London - The Last Supper

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Assab One, Milan.- Wonderland, curated by James Putnam.
2009 Paradise Row, London. Play
2009 Paradise Row, Istanbul. Il faut etre absoulement moderne
2008 Bernard Shapero gallery, London. Africa photography collection.
2007 Enrico Navarra, Art Paris: Abu Dhabi
2004 Musée de Marrakech, Morocco - Haik Project
2000 Michael Hoppen Photography, London - Painted Pictures
1999 Crane Kalman Gallery, London. Silence in Painting.
1999 Royal Photographic Society, bath - Into the Light
1997 Lefevre Gallery, London - Six Artists
1997 Kate Chertavian Fine art, London.
1996 Michael Hoppen Photography, London - The Body
1994 Lucie Weil-Selligman, Paris France - Constrictions
1993 Zeit Foto gallery, Tokyo, Japan - Constrictions
1992 Kooling Gallery, London
1991 Crane Gallery, london - Five Young Contemporaries
1987 Hamiltons, London