The NMMU BTech Graduate Exhibition is a collective showing of selected works produced by the fourth year Fine Art students of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. The artworks exhibited stem from a multitude of practical disciplines, theoretical underpinnings and conceptualizations. These include two dimensional prints, drawings and illustrations, as well as three dimensional and relief bronze, glass and ceramic sculptural pieces.

As a collective, this exhibition acts as a visual study, discussion and exploration of a diverse range of subject matter, including (but not limited to) alchemy, social bipolarity, a manmade apocalypse, Christianity, archaeology, self-help, sweet nothings, text, discommunication, the Virgin Mary, dreams and the practical experimentation of ceramic glazes, forms and textures.

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PE (OPLE), What hue are you? Colours of you collaboration exhibition by Gerard Addison

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Top crafters working in the Eastern Cape Province are invited to enter their best products for the inaugural craft competition and exhibition entitled LITHUBA LAKHO.

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IT IS A wonderful sight to have young and emergent local artists exhibit and see the hard work put in to the creative process. The initiative and bravery taken by these local artists is a glimpse of the potential Nelson Mandela Bay artists have.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014: REFLECTING on 30 years of a changing architectural landscape – which is shaping and reconstituting modern South African cities – the Eastern Cape Institute of Architects’ (ECIA) latest exhibition, Excellence in Architecture: 1983-2013, celebrates how the region has morphed through architectural intervention.

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Exhibition  opening of  "Architectural Excellence" 1983 to 2013

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IN THE beginning, a room full of posters seemed like an awkward format for an exhibition – one which might not immediately connect with the observer’s sense of their depth and meaning – at face value that is.

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WHEN Brent Meistre asked me to open this exhibition, I was dubious about my ability to introduce what he does to the general public, as the material, while visually accessible, carries the weight of a very particular philosophy and approach to landscape which is less easily explained. I am thankful that, for most of us, the experience of standing alone in landscape is relatively easy to do as we live close to the kinds of landscape which he has photographed. To be physically in landscape in this country is a primal sensation – it is literally where we’re grounded – where we develop a sense of place and belonging - and it is the space in which we conduct our lives and where we are buried.  

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ACCOMPLISHED Eastern Cape photographer and painter, Marc Pradervand, presents his first solo art exhibition in Port Elizabeth entitled “Assume Relaxed Position”, at the Athenaeum from 15 – 25 April 2014.  Pradervand’s latest body of work, comprising 14 large format paintings, presents cheeky political, social, psychological and sexual content which may leave sensitive adult viewers quite the opposite of relaxed.

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AN OPEN competition for the design of two new Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) buildings has yielded “outstanding results”, according to the Port Elizabeth architecture industry, after an exhibition of the top five designs opened last week at the Athenaeum Gallery.

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