Blue Gecko Art Studio

26/08/2026

25/08/2026

“When you start working, everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas - all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you’re lucky, even you leave.”

- John Cage

12/08/2026

OPEN CALL: RMB TALENT UNLOCKED - FIRSTRAND FOUNDATION

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 24 August 2026

Are you an emerging artist looking to hone your business acumen and professional practice?

Are you a visual artist specialising in painting, drawing, printmaking and/or photography?

RMB and FirstRand Foundation are looking for you!

The RMB Talent Unlocked programme is an immersive experience offering comprehensive capacity-building and mentorship support aimed at advancing artistic careers.

For those who are deeply committed to their professional development and eager to refine their brand, RMB Talent Unlocked 2026 may serve as a pivotal opportunity. Supported by RMB, this initiative aligns with the institution's commitment to nurturing and showcasing diverse talent for the development of the creative economy.

In conjunction with Artist Proof Studio, Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of the Arts and Bag Factory, programme participants will benefit from studio space and ongoing support throughout the 2026 programme. The programme includes exposure to various professional exhibitions, workshops on legal literacy and financial literacy, fundraising and proposal writing, media coaching, mental well-being and marketing opportunities strategically timed to coincide with Joburg Art Fair’s peak season and exhibiting platforms in September 2026.

Participants will be tasked with developing and refining a body of work under the guidance of experienced artistic mentors and curators and will be invited to the exclusive Talent Unlocked alumni community. RMB Talent Unlocked is designed to help equip participants with the skills and connections necessary to propel their artistic endeavours to new heights.

APPLY HERE: https://www.talentunlocked.firstrand.co.za/

QUERIES: email [email protected]

11/08/2026

11/08/2026

11/08/2026

🎨 [ART SCHOLARSHIP ALERT] Are you a passionate Fine Arts student ready to take your talent to the next level?

The South African Reserve Bank is offering a year-long full scholarship to a qualifying Fine Arts student for the 2027 academic year.

🗓️ Application close: 30 September 2026

For more information visit: https://www.resbank.co.za/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/bursary/2026/art-scholarship-2027

11/08/2026

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY Radcliffe Fellowship Creative Arts 2027, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA

DEADLINE 10 September, 2026

*This fellowship offers a $78,000 stipend, plus an additional $5,000 to cover project expenses.*

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program gives artists, writers, scholars, scientists, journalists, and public intellectuals a full academic year to pursue major projects within an interdisciplinary setting at Harvard University.

To learn more about how to apply visit: https://contemporaryperformance.com/2026/06/30/radcliffe-fellowship-2027/



Image courtesy of Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

24/07/2026

This winter, Cape Town’s City Centre comes alive for the HEAT Winter Arts Festival, running from 6–15 August across 15 galleries and museums.

Kicking off on First Thursdays, 6 August, this year’s theme — 𝘊𝘵𝘳𝘭 + 𝘡 — invites reflection, rewind and reinvention. WORLDART joins in with a group exhibition featuring five young rising stars:

lona ndzimande
Ayola Goxo
Aimee Lindeque
Myra Darling 🌸
Xolelwa Malinga



📍WORLDART, 68 Long Street

10/04/2026

Berman Contemporary invites submissions from women artists for an upcoming group exhibition engaging with material as a site of transformation, resistance, and reimagination. We are seeking artists whose practices move beyond image into material intelligence.

Post Material Feminism is not about rejecting material. It is about rethinking it. It asks:
What happens when the materials historically associated with women’s labour, craft, and survival are no longer marginal, but central?

What happens when cardboard, textile, plastic, thread, detritus, and the overlooked become carriers of meaning, memory, and structure?

This call is for artists who:
• Treat material as language, not medium
• Work with processes of accumulation, fragmentation, construction, or erosion
• Engage with themes of identity, labour, memory, body, ecology, or displacement through material form
• Challenge hierarchies between “high” and “low” materials
• Move toward sculpture, installation, assemblage, or spatial thinking
• Embrace risk, experimentation, and unresolved forms

We are particularly interested in:
• Cardboard, paper, and packaging as structural or conceptual material
• Textile and fibre as architecture, not decoration
• Found, recycled, or discarded materials
• Hybrid practices crossing art, design, and making
• Works that exist between fragility and strength

What we are not looking for:
• Conventional painting that does not extend beyond the canvas
• Image-based practices without material interrogation
• Purely decorative or surface-driven work
Applications are open until 3 May 2026
Exhibition will open mid/end 2027 - dates to be confirmed