Arc - Art residency centre Gaborone Botswana

22/10/2022

We are having our last paint and sip event of 2022 on Sunday 6th of November. Come and join us for a creative afternoon. Contact : [email protected] to book tickets.
SEE YOU THERE

22/10/2022

Come and join Kim Makin tomorrow Sunday 23rd October for the closing day of her exhibition from 12 noon to 4pm

24/09/2022

It's Kim's day today:
Come and celebrate her achievement with us , Sanitas Tea Garden, Gaborone. Opening from 12 noon. See you there

21/09/2022

"THE DOORS OF CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED"
an exhibition of artwork by KIM KARABO MAKIN
, Sanitas Tea Garden, opening at 12 noon on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th.

19/09/2022

KIM KARABO MAKIN whose work is currently included in a World Bank installation in WASHINGTON DC USA
will be opening , Sanitas Tea Garden this coming weekend. Please join us there from 12 noon Saturday and Sunday to experience artworks from her Masters degree, Michaelis School of Fine Art Cape Town:
"THE DOORS OF CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED" showing for the first time in Gaborone, Botswana.
Friends, family and collectors of Botswana contemporary art
SEE YOU THERE!

18/09/2022

NEXT WEEKEND:
KIM KARABO MAKIN works on show:
"THE DOORS OF CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED"
An exhibition of visual and audio artwork
, Sanitas Tea Garden from 12 noon
Come and see Kim's MASTERS graduation artworks from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.

17/09/2022

REMINDER FOR TODAY:
Art Residency Centre, Gaborone Botswana
presents our resident visual artist
GIANCARLO LAGUERTA
STUDIO OPEN
opening at 12 noon TODAY at the GABZ CLUB in the Members lounge
See you there!

07/09/2022

SAVE THE DATE:
GIANCARLO LAGUERTA
our current resident visual artist will be having his residency show on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of September from 12noon to 6.30pm, in the Members' Lounge, Gaborone Club, the Village, Gaborone.
ALL WELCOME

04/09/2022

SEDIRENG MOTHIBATSELA at the RELE GALLERY JOHANNESBURG ART FAIR 2022
ARTIST's STATEMENT
“MarthaFrancis”
Martha and Francis are the names of my grandmothers. Martha is my paternal grandmother who passed on before I was born, while Francis my maternal grandmother I experienced fully until she passed on in 1998.
This collection is a tribute to both these incredible women whom I have experienced in very different ways. I met my paternal grandmother when we exhumed her from her original resting place to where she lies now, next to my grandfather. The experience of exhuming my grandmother was deeply spiritual. The day was windy and slightly cold, and brightened up as the day progressed. The cloud cover made way for the sun almost insync with Martha’s emergence. It felt like she had been waiting for us as we unearthed the smile I had come to be familiar with in photographs, with one side tooth missing.
The candle flame has become a medium that can both communicate destruction as well as delicate fleeting beauty. I discovered this way of creating energy after my maternal grandmother, Francis passed away.
I had questions about where she and all who pass away go. What is heaven? What is the soul?
Francis embodied such elegant poise. A woman of contradiction. A Eurocentric sophistication rooted in down to earth South African standards. My grandmother kept a prestine home; polished parquet floors and tightly tucked in beds, lace draped brocade upholstered couches and stainglass doors. But it is the scent of Vicks and Rumneys s***f over dumplings and lamb in the kitchen that trigger memories of her comforting presence.
The candle flame continues to evoke a transcedental range of emotions in my work; sadness, lightness and freedom, as well as a confident presence. A medium which breaths and forces us to connect purely through our emotional filters.

02/09/2022

CONGRATULATIONS TO BATSWANA IN THE HOUSE@THE JOBURG ART FAIR 2022
Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
Sedireng Mothibatsela,
with Rele Gallery
with Moratiwa Molema, Tebogo Cranwell, Karabo Maine
with Ora Loapi
and Thebe Photego
with the Guns and Rain Gallery Johannesburg.
And the fabulous Tim Motsomi working with the Rele Gallery
and the gorgeous Kim Makin working with Suburbia Contemporary.

29/08/2022

22/08/2022

REMINDER: ARC CINE CLUB
"INTO THE OKAVANGO"
film screening tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd August in the Members' lounge, Gabz Club at 7pm. Tickets P25.
SEE YOU THERE!