“As the sky turns from black to blue, as a dress from blue to white, a mother becomes a messenger of another. With the passing of time, we are watching, we are waiting as the ever blue becomes lighter and lighter, transcending to the empty void – the unreachable horizon. For nearly five decades, my … Read more
EXHIBITION Neville Starling: Worlds are Made and Unmade; I Hear the Music of Spheres 21 NOV – 15 DEC 2020 Preview 21 NOV 2020, 10am – 2pmWalkabout 28 NOV 2020, 11am The Bag Factory presents the first SA solo exhibition, Worlds are Made and Unmade; I Hear the Music of Spheres by Zimbabwean artist Neville … Read more
DELICATE/TENDENCY/RESPONSE, a solo exhibition by DuduBloom More, the winner of the prestigious 2019 Cassirer Welz Award, presented by the Bag Factory in partnership with Strauss Education and Kalashnikovv Gallery. In this newly created body of work, Bloom uses mixed materials of thread, paper, wool, perspex, inks and more, to explore the delicacy of trauma and … Read more
Led by Bag Factory Director Candice Allison This workshop will cover the essential components of creating an effective artist portfolio. Topics covered will include portfolio formats; what a portfolio is comprised of and used for; how to tailor your portfolio to different markets; and the basics of documenting your work and presenting your portfolio … Read more
Join us on Sat 24 Oct from 11am–3pm for our Spring Open Studios. Drop by and get to know our studio and current residency artists at this free event offering Johannesburg audiences a unique opportunity to see, hear about and discuss the research and work-in-progress that our artists have been developing over the course … Read more
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
2 SEP – 29 OCT 2019 A self-taught artist based in Kampala, Uganda. Her work is situated within the earnest expression of states of mind; mining her experiences with anxiety and depression to inform mixed media work. She explores mental health as illustrated by the interior worlds of women and has used art as a … Read more
Born in Johannesburg, Candice Kramer holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has had two solo shows at Obert Contemporary and NIROX projects respectively. Candice has participated in a number of group shows. Her work has consistently been sold into both private and corporate collections including Spier, Nandos, RMB … Read more
15 JAN – 14 APR 2020 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 … Read more
Malebona Maphutse (b.1994) is a Johannesburg based artist who has completed her BA (Fine Art) Degree at the University of Witwatersrand in 2017. She works in and outside of the academic institution. She enjoys reading, listening to jazz, hip hop, tranquil, reggae, soul, neo-soul, folk and kwaito music. She is also a poet and enjoys … Read more