Amina Zoubir

  Amina Zoubir, will be at the Bag Factory for 3 weeks on a self-funded residency, she predominantly works as a videographer and a visual artist, her works are on the notions of body in spaces. Using female, male, animal and objects bodies, those interact with urban and rural spaces around the world. Her artworks … Read more

Erla S. Haraldsdóttir – Self Funded Residency

Erla S. Haraldsdóttir works with painting, animation, video, and photomontage as a means to appropriate and restructure reality. An academically trained painter, she currently focuses on painting where the physicality of paint and colour create space, light, and shadow. Her work combines figurative motifs, abstract colour, and patterns with painterly finesse. The works often explore … Read more

The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary – Yolanda Mazwana

1 OCT 2019 – 30 SEP 2020 The Bag Factory Artists’ Studios is proud to welcome Yolanda Mazwana as the recipient of the Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary, generously funded by the Bag Factory alumni artist Sam Nhlengethwa. The Bag Factory Young Woman Studio Bursary offers an emerging/early career woman/womxn artist (under 35) a … Read more

About Residencies

RESIDENCIES VISITING ARTIST/ CURATOR PROGRAMME The Bag Factory is a professional artist studio space, located on the border of the vibrant suburbs of Fordsburg and Newtown in Johannesburg. We have been operating for almost 33 years and have a stable community of artists from a wide variety of backgrounds. The studio space and its community … Read more