Cultural experiences
Art galleries: rest of South Africa
University of Fort Hare, Alice
Website EPSAC COMMUNITY ART CENTRE
36 Bird Street, Central, Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts was established in 1918 to nurture and and promote all forms of art and craft in the Eastern Cape Region. Now a non- profit organisation, the EPSAC Community Art Centre still maintains the same vision today.
Website IBIS ART CENTRE
Martin Street, Nieu-Bethesda
In the small town of Nieu-Bethesda - home also to the Owl House, where outsider artist Helen Martens constructed a garden of figuratve scultures with the aid of Koos Malgas - the Ibis Art Centre mounts exhibitions of contemporary art including the !Xoe biennial exhibition of site-specific sculpture. MARLENE NEUMANN FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
8 Kent Road, Vincent, East London
The Marlene Neumann Centre for Fine Art Photography features a fine art photographic gallery that serves as a permanent showcase for Marlene's exclusive photographic art. It also includes a studio for teaching creative photography courses. There is also a fully equipped lecture venue and a large professionally equipped darkroom for students. The art garden is also a must-see attraction.
Website MORNE KRETSCHMANN ART GALLERY
Bloomingdales Village,145 Main Road, Walmer, Port Elizabeth
The Morne Kretschmann Art Gallery features the works of over 80 of South Africa's leading artists, including decorative and fine arts, as well as highly important South African paintings.
Website NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM
1 Park Drive, Port Elizabeth
Collections include of South African art, particularly from the Eastern Cape, British art, international printmaking and Oriental art, including Indian miniatures and Chinese textiles. There is an active programme of temporary exhibitions.
Website THE OWL HOUSE MUSEUM
River Street, Nieu-Bethesda
Over a period of about 12 years in the mid-20th century, Helen Martins and Koos Malgas created from her imaginings the hundreds of sculptures and relief figures that crowd the Camel Yard and cover the walls of the Owl House. Her favourite animals, owls and camels, predominate, but all manner of real and fantastical beings are to be found.
Website PETER'S ART GALLERY
18 Da Gama Road, Jeffreys Bay
Artists exhibited include Michael Albertyn, Louis Audi, Francois Badenhorst, Sandi Beukes, Adriaan Boshoff, At Botha, Peter Botha, Sydney Carter, Frans Claerhout, Dimitrov, Mark Enslin, Margaret Gradwell, Michael Heyns, Graham Jahme, Susan Jahme, Otto Klar, Amos Langdown, Isabele Le Roux, Wendy Malan, Claudia Meyer, Este Mostert, Paul Munro, Usen Obot, Peter Pharoah, Portchie, Edward Roworth, Johan Smith, Pieter Van Der Westhuizen, Lynette Van Kroolin, Derric Van Rensburg, Marie Vermuelen-Breed, Veronica, Ron Waldeck, Kosie Wium and James Yates.
Website RON BELLING ART GALLERY
30 Park Drive, Port Elizabeth Ron Belling was South Africa's foremost aviation artists who produced 1 650 paintings during his lifetime, of which 500 are aviation subjects. Many of these are exhibited at the Gutsche Family Investment, Ron Belling Art Gallery, dedicated to his memory in Port Elizabeth.
Website THE VINCENT ART GALLERY
2 Donald Road, Vincent, East London
The Vincent Art Gallery reflects the artistic spirit of Southern Africa. The art is classic, young, established and it contemporizes the past, present and future For the collectors of South African art the gallery houses an exceptional collection of fine arts, sculptures, ceramics, exclusive precious stones, silver and amber jewellery. Artists include J.H Pierneef, Gabriel De Jongh, Christo Coetzee, Frans Claerhout, Amos Langdown, and Gregoire Boonzaaier, as well as works by Duggie du Toit, Jean Hendricks, Este Mostert, Shany Van den Burgh, Anton Smith, Johan Smith, Dale Elliot, Michael Heyns and many more.
Website UNDERCULTURE CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS GALLERY
98A Park Drive, Central, Port Elizabeth
Underculture Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, which caters for a discerning and culturally aware urban audience, aims to promote and offer quality contemporary fine artists in the greater Nelson Mandela Bay metro and Eastern Cape. It also serves as a trustworthy platform for the development and promotion of promising local career artists.
Website WALTER BATTISS GALLERY
45 Paulet Street, Somerset East
In an official ceremony held in front of the white-gabled house in Paulet Street, Somerset East, in September 1981, Walter Battiss bequeathed his collection of his own art works to "the people of Somerset East and South Africa". The two-storied house with its long, shaded verandah is a familiar landmark in the small Karoo town. The Walter Battiss art gallery was originally built in 1818 and served as an officers’ mess on Somerset Farm.
Website FREE STATE BELLRINGER ART GALLERY 3A Dok Beyers Street, Heuwelsig, Bloemfontein
The Bellringer Art Gallery hosts quarterly exhibitions in a beautiful lush garden setting, and provides opportunities for up-and-coming artists to show off their works without having to foot the bill.
Website GALLERY 88
5 Riemland Street, Sasolburg
(016) 976 2524
This intimate house environment hosts a collection of academic and commercial contemporary South African art. JOHANNES STEGMANN ART GALLERY
Sasol Library, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
(051) 401 2706
Based at Free State University of the Free State, the gallery's permanent collection includes art by old South African masters (dating as far back as 1929) alongside a specialised collection of work by the Bloemfontein group and artists from Thaba'nchu and other surrounding towns. The annual Absa L'Atelier Regional Selection show and student exhibition are hosted by the gallery. OLIEWENHUIS ART MUSEUM
16 Harry Smith Street, Bloemfontein
As a satellite of the National Museum in Bloemfontein, the Oliewenhuis concentrates solely on South African art ranging from the old masters to contemporary paintings, graphics and sculpture. The permanent collection houses works by David Brown, Justinus Khoalibe, Winston Saoli, Ben Botma, Paul Emmanuel, Leora Farber and many others.
Website LIMPOPO GEMCO ART GALLERY
Plot 124, Ivydale, Polokwane
Masks from all over Africa, paintings from well-known South African artists, craftwork in iron wood, African jade and verdite, Zulu baskets, hand-painted and carved ostrich eggs, hand-carved furniture, mud and batik table cloths, lampstands made from horns and bones and lots more. JOHANN KOCH GALLERY
119 Thabo Mbeki Drive, Mokopane
Experience the feel of the African bush in both the animals and the bushland backdrops and foregrounds that Johann Koch uses lavishly in his paintings. POLOKWANE ART MUSEUM
Danie Hough Cultural Centre, 70 Schoemann Street, Polokwane
The museum concentrates on paintings and sculptures by artists from Limpopo. Its permanent collection has been accrued through donations by local artists, including the prominent Jack Botes. THE PLACE FOR ART
24a Biccard Street, Polokwane
(015) 295 3954 TZANEEN MUSEUM
Agatha Street, Tzaneen
(015) 307 056
The museum houses a notable collection of Tsonga and North Sotho ethnological artifacts and art, including the world's largest collection of pole carvings from the region. Among the objects are the royal drums of the famous rain queen Modjadji. Sculptures by local artists also form part of the permanent collection. Website MPUMALANGA ARTIST'S PRESS
Waterfield Farm, near White River, Mpumalanga
Professional collaboration, printing and publishing of original hand-printed artists' lithographs. Also artists' books, monotypes and letterpress prints, particularly for artists working in South Africa.
Website BOSCH STUDIO
64 St Georges Road, White River
Ceramic studio on a smallholding outside White River with a range of work by ceramic artist Anton Bosch, including vast ceramic panels.
Website CIVIC CENTRE ART GALLERY First floor foyer, Civic Centre, Nelspruit Tel: (013) 759 9111 DANIE SMITH STUDIO 9 Dan Pienaar Street, Dennesig, Middelburg, Mpumalanga ELOFF STUDIO
Two kilometres outside White River on the Hazyview Road
(013) 750 1282
Zakkie Eloff's wildlife paintings, etchings and sketches are available, as are Coral Stephens's woven hangings, Anton Bosch ceramics and Renee Eloff oils and silkscreens. NORTHERN CAPE DUGGAN CRONIN GALLERY
Egerton Road, Kimberley
(053) 842 0099
Adjacent to the historical McGregor Museum, this gallery holds a collection of early photographs of Africans by Duggan Cronin, an Irish photographer who arrived in Kimberley in 1897. Shot between 1919 and 1939, some of the traditional tribal rites depicted can never be photographed again. The gallery also displays African arts and crafts and a number of rock paintings (originals). WILLIAM HUMPHREYS ART GALLERY Civic Centre, Cullinan Crescent, Kimberley
The gallery's collection focuses on Dutch and Flemish art from the 16th and 17th centuries, South African art, ceramics and furniture.
Website NORTH WEST ADLOU ART GALLERY
St Monica Street, (Scott Street ext), Schoemansville, Hartbeespoort Dam
Includes the work of Adriaan Boshoff, Tienie Pritchard, Branka Dimitrov, Joyce Carrera, James Harris, David Ras, Zerk de Villiers, Christopher Haw, Carla Louw, Gavin Calf, and Ryan Loubser
Website ALICE ART GALLERY
Hartbeespoort Waterfront Gallery (Opposite the Snake Park), Hartbeespoort
Alice Art Gallery Hartbeespoort houses all types of art, ranging from paintings, drawings, and etchings to sculptures, ceramics, mosaics and carvings. They also have a very diverse selection of mediums in the works they display: oil, acrylic, watercolour, Indian ink, ballpoint pen, pastel, charcoal, pencil, metal, wood and bronzes.
Website CHRISTIAN NICE ART GALLERY
Beethoven Street, Hartbeespoort Dam
(012) 259 1287 DIETMAR WIENING GALLERY
R512 Lanseria Road, Broederstroom, Hartbeestpoort Dam, North West
South Africa's leading bronze sculptor of marine life and birds. Figurative art, painting and stunning water features are permanently exhibited at the artist's gallery in Broederstroom.
Website HARTEBEESPOORT ART GALLERY 110 Scott Street, Schoemansville, Hartbeespoort Dam This gallery focuses mainly on wildlife paintings and features some old South African masters including Maggie Laubscher and Franz Oerder. JAARSMA'S ART 13 Waterbok Avenue, Miederpark, Potchefstroom
Jaarsma's Art Gallery stocks a large variety of paintings from various local, national and international artists, and also offers professional framing services.
Website JO ROOS STUDIO GALLERY De Wilt, near Cheetah Farm, R513, Brits District
Detailed bronzes of African wildlife and life-sized nudes, impressionist oil paintings and watercolours.
Website KOSMOS ART GALLERY
139 Paul Kruger Street, Kosmos Village, Kosmos
(012) 253 1727 PIETER JACQUES KRUGEL ART GALLERY AND STUDIO
52 Scott Street, Schoemansville, Hartbeespoort
Featuring the work of Pieter Jacques Krugel, best known for his magnificent landscapes and Nguni cattle scenes. His medium of choice is acrylic paint on canvas
Website WATERFALL GALLERY
Waterfall Mall, Augrabies Avenue, Rustenberg
(014) 537 3320 WILLEM ANNANDALE ART GALLERY
Public library, Melville Street, Lichtenburg
(018) 632 5051
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A work by Walter Battiss, from the Walter Battiss Gallery in Somerset East
Die Familie by Alexander Podlashuc, from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum in Port Elizabeth
Surreal sculpture at the Owl House in Nieu-Bethesda