As part of Art Week Cape Town, Michaelis Galleries is hosting a second instalment of Jonathan Silverman's Searching for an Electric Peanut, which will be curatedspecifically for the upper gallery exhibition space.
Michaelis School of Fine Art hosted the Tierney Fellowship workshops on 7 and 8 February 2019. The Tierney Fellowship was created in 2003 by the Tierney Family Foundation to encourage promising artists in the arena of photography. The principal objective of the Fellowship is to find the future leaders in photography and to support them in conquering the challenges that an artist faces at the beginning of his or her career.
Stodel, Lee and Singer’s work will appear on a section of the Cape Town Art Fair called Analogue/Digital. According to the organisers the works will be exploring the effects of the digital world on our lived realities and on artistic practice.
Michaelis alumna, Alice Mann recently won the prestigious Taylor Wessing photographic competition. Alice, who specialised in photography while at Michaelis, will be exhibiting her photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Michaelis alumna, Alice Mann recently won the prestigious Taylor Wessing photographic competition. Alice, who specialised in photography while at Michaelis, will be exhibiting her photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Kirsten Eksteen, a Michaelis graduate recently won a Merit Award at the Absa L'Atelier Art awards for her body of work titled "Patterns and Pattern Body". She was also selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists for 2018 for the Absa L'Atelier main award.
Kirsten Eksteen, a Michaelis graduate recently won a Merit Award at the Absa L'Atelier Art awards for her body of work titled "Patterns and Pattern Body". She was also selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists for 2018 for the Absa L'Atelier main award.
Embracing the Siyakhula (‘together we grow’) ethos embodied in the title of the upcoming Siyakhula Michaelis Auction in Cape Town, Marlene Dumas has donated 100 000 Euros (R1,8-m) towards the initiative to raise funds for promising artists from previously disadvantaged backgrounds who might otherwise not be able to attend University.