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CATALOGUE
Presented by
In memory of
Dot Vermeulen,
1985 2015
Sasol New Signatures
2013 winner
CITY OF TSHWANE
CONTENTS
Contents
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NATIONAL CHAIRMANS
COMMENT
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SASOL NEW
SIGNATURES
WINNER 2015
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RUNNER-UP
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MERIT
AWARDS
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CATALOGUE OF WORKS
ON EXHIBITION
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SOLO EXHIBITION
ELIZABETH BALCOMB,
WINNER 2014
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JUDGES REPORT
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COMPETITION DETAILS
R100 000
and the opportunity of a solo exhibition
at the Pretoria Art Museum during the
following years Sasol New Signatures
Art Competition exhibition (terms and
conditions apply).
RUNNER-UP
R25 000
FIVE MERIT AWARDS
R10 000
FOREWORD
Wrenelle Stander
The beauty of art is that it is not static. What makes
contemporary art particularly appealing is that it
challenges traditional boundaries, inspiring audiences
to rethink the norm and the familiar.
This genre of art, like Sasol, is constantly evolving.
Contemporary art thrives on exploring new ideas and
technologies to reflect the changing landscape. This
is what makes this discipline of the visual arts unique
and Sasols association with it natural.
Commemorating 65 years of existence, Sasol has
a long proud history of supporting South African
art. The company has been collecting artworks by
homegrown talent since the early 1960s, and features
a collection of about 2 000 pieces.
We are also pleased with our partnership with the
Association of Arts Pretoria, through which we have
played a pivotal role in unleashing and unearthing
hidden local talent, and providing it with a platform
from which it can flourish.
Now in its 26th year, Sasol New Signatures continues
to help emerging talent break into a field that many
still find inaccessible.
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Contemporary
art thrives
on exploring
new ideas and
technologies
to reflect the
changing
landscape.
MESSAGE
DIRECTOR,
ASSOCIATION OF ARTS PRETORIA
Pieter W
van Heerden
We often feel we are floating on a sea of uncertainties,
brought about amongst others, by a deterioration of the
environment, economic crises, labour unrest, power cuts
and corruption.
To overcome this despair, we must sit back and consider
the anchors in our lives, such as our families, the goodwill
between people of all races, our wondrous nature and so
many other positive attributes.
Certainly, one such comforting factor is the bustling South
African art and cultural scene, our theatre, music and live
performances, flourishing book trade and film industry.
In a very true sense, the Sasol New Signatures
competition, over the past 26 years, has also
become one of these anchors.
MESSAGE
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
SASOL NEW SIGNATURES
Pieter
Binsbergen
The works on
display trigger a
nostalgic longing
for security,
amplifying a
unified African
voice.
COMMENT
OVERALL WINNER
OVERALL WINNER
Nelmarie
du Preez
(Pretoria)
Du Preez/GUI* as a collective
presents a computer and
Nelmarie du Preez as equal
actors in a performance-based
artistic collaboration.
*GUI is the abbreviation for Graphical User Interface
commonly found on any electronic device. In the
documented performance entitled to shout (2013),
these two performers re-interpret the work
of Marina Abramovic and Ulay entitled
AAA-AAA (1978).
Nelmarie DU PREEZ (Pretoria)
to shout (2013)
Single-channel video with sound
71 seconds
OVERALL WINNER
Biography
Nelmarie du Preez (b. 1985) is a Pretoria-based artist
working in the fields of performance, photography, video
and computational arts. She recently completed her MFA
Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she
also completed her MA in Computational Arts in 2013.
She also holds a BA in Audiovisual Multimedia from the
University of South Africa. Du Preez is currently a lecturer
in Visual Arts at UNISA.
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RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP
Mareli
Janse van
Rensburg
(Stellenbosch)
This work comments on the Xenophobia attacks, specifically
the death of Immanuel Sithole, and how these media images
of his death influenced me as an individual. I took the images
of his death that were posted in newspapers and wove a mask
with them, I then took selfies with this mask. These selfies
show how media is constructing the view of the public and
how they desensitise the public against traumatising images.
This mask shows me as an individual shielding myself against
these images by totally embracing myself in them so they do
no longer have an effect on me.
Biography
Third year fine art student, Stellenbosch University
Mareli JANSE VAN RENSBURG (Stellenbosch)
The final moments of Immanuel Sithole
Photography
54 cm x 102 cm
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MERIT AWARDS
Merit
awards
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MERIT
Rory Lance
Emmett
(Cape Town)
This piece comes as a result of a sitespecific performance/intervention at
a loaded and contentious space in
Cape Town. District Six, a former innercity residential area in Cape Town,
South Africa, has been a desolate space
since the events of the forced removals
that occurred during the 1970s, under
an unjust regime.
Colourman, my avatar, activated the
space by constructing a 2.1m x 2.1m
wall there; he then plastered it and
painted it. Colourman - a title for
traditional artisans in the history of
painting becomes a visual and textual
pun, a play on the term coloured man.
The performance is done as this person
of colour clad in paint, figuratively
and literally becoming coloured, a
construction essentially.
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MERIT
Nazeerah
Jacub
(Johannesburg)
Being a young Muslim female growing up in South Africa, I consider
myself a hybrid of influences. On the one hand that of Indian culture,
and on the other a practicing Muslim. I am intrigued by origins and
that of pattern as it holds great importance amongst Indian females.
Within this artwork I have used the representation of a carpet, a
Muslim prayer matt (MusAllah). This carpet is something personal
to every Muslim individual as it is used five times a day in prayer.
Therefore the carpet appears used and is fading.
The embodiment of constant praying and usage is reinforced by the
worn away piece of fabric that appears to be unraveling in certain
sections. I have also introduced Islamic pattern in combination with
Indian patterns as a means of embracing this rather odd identity. The
medium in which the carpet is represented is through paint processes
as a means of introducing the love for praying within a confined space
and that of something which is frowned upon, so that the two may
provide a compromise.
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MERIT
Bronwyn
Merlistee
Katz
(Cape Town)
Grond herinnering (2015) engages with my memory
of place. In the video I perform the washing of my
feet with soil from the part of the land from which I
originate. I do this as a way of reminding my feet of
where they come from. I perform childhood games I
remember playing. These performances are done in the
current space I occupy, as the remembering of my place
of origin is only required outside of my place of origin.
Bronwyn Merlistee KATZ (Cape Town)
Grond herinnering (2015)
Video
228 seconds
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MERIT
Sethembile
Msezane
(Cape Town)
There is a shift in awareness amongst the youth (15-35 year bracket) of South
Africa where there is an attempt to transcend the legacy of apartheid and
colonialism by transforming contemporary South African society through art,
music and public debates - music such as the Rhodes Must Fall movement. As
a woman born in the 1990s, I investigate myself in relation to space and time.
In The Public Holiday Series (2013-2014) my aim was to highlight the
significance of black women in the South African (political) landscape by
asserting my body in public spaces, as a living sculpture, through the process
of temporary monumentalisation. This further alludes to womens unwritten
(or limited) participation in the liberation of the country within memorialised
public spaces by performing on South African (political) public holidays.
Historic events are contrasted with current issues in an exercise of memory,
and through this process expose how history often repeats itself. For
example, Human Rights Day in 1960 (previously known as Sharpeville Day)
can be closely aligned with the massacre in Marikana (2013).
The characters I have created engage the significance of these holidays
combined with similar western histories through iconic imagery, i.e. Lady
Liberty that, re-imagine these histories within a global context, and include
Zulu motifs and dress, as these form a strong part of my identity.
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MERIT
Colleen
Winter
(Johannesburg)
There was a time in my life when I underwent many changes
and I needed to withdraw and re-assess all the values I had
previously upheld. It was a time of great emotional upheaval
and confusion. I felt as if I was inside a cocoon, and always
held on to the fact that one day this metamorphosis would be
complete, and I would re-emerge, equipped and empowered
and ready for a new kind of life.
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CATALOGUE OF WORKS
ON EXHIBITION
Index of
artists
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NUMBER
ARTIST
NAME
22 Nabeelah Abed
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Julia Winslow Alunni-Pasquali
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Catherine Phyllis (Katy) Barton-Bridges
24 Vincent Bezuidenhout
24 & 25
Niall Barry Bingham
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Suzanne Monet Bonsma
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Bernard Ruan Brand
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Bianca Boudry Brand
27 Nellien Brewer
27 Skye Burns
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Danielle Amy Carr
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Peter Mikael Campbell
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Christopher James (CJ) Chandler
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Fiona Christensen
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Yda Cornelia (Ydi) Coetsee
30 Jolandi Coetzee
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Amlie Comrie
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Hanien Helena Conradie
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Bevan Jordan de Wet
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Justin Andrew Dingwall
33 Jessica Doucha
34 Johandi du Plessis
34
Nelmarie du Preez
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Rory Lance Emmett
35 Matilda Engelblik
36 Leandri Erlank
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Nicola Fouch
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St. John James Zair Fuller
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Thulile Esther (Thuli) Gamedze
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38 Amber-Jade Geldenhuys
& Gina Kraft
38 Lungiswa Gqunta
39 Sian-Michelle Hall
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Minien Mirie Hattingh
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Kirsty Hayden-Smith
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Buhle Calvin Hlatshwayo
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Mthobisi Eugene Hlophe
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Carl August Huebsch
42 Nazeerah Jacub
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Mareli Janse van Rensburg
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Bronwyn Merlistee Katz
43
Thokozani Happiness Khumalo
44 Taryn King
44 & 45
Rory Wallace Klopper
45 Francois Knoetze
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Louie Kritzinger & Marli Steyl
46 Sandi Kuper
47
Victor Kuster
47
Cedrick Marumo Kwata
48
Zane Wesley Lange
49 Leandr le Roux
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Lisa Nicole Linossi
50 & 51
Lindi Lombard
51
Sibusiso Magilindane
52
Mmakosha Roxette Malala
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Franli Meintjes
53
Leeray Angel Mey
53
Siwaphiwe Xobani Amahle
(Siwa) Mgoboza
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Sethembile Msezane
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Nadine Moolman
55
Robyn Therse Munnick
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Nadia Laila Myburgh
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Emilia Eva Nadj
57
Shogan Ganas Naidoo
57 & 58
Zanele Pretty Nkosi
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Asemahle (Ase) Ntlonti
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Christine Olivier
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Siobhan Maire OReagain
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Berthold David (Bert) Pauw
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Megan Poisat
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Jennifer Gaisford (Jenny) Pomeroy
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John Alexander Robbertse
62 Marguerite Roux
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Marthinus Chrisstoffel (MC) Roodt
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Chelsea Janine Rowley
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Magdalena Elizabeth (Mem)
Sevenster
64 Thulisile Siguca
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Cathryn Lauren (Cathy) Simon
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Christine Fay Smith
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Jessica Lee Staple
66 Ilse Steenkamp
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Thamsanqa Prayer Tonga
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Uyanda Justice Tom
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Anna Katherine Louise van der Ploeg
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Jonathan Petra van der Walt
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Albertus (Barry) van der Westhuizen
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Albert Hugo van Niekerk
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SOLO EXHIBITION
Solo
Exhibition
The Sasol New Signatures
exhibition of winning
works, and the solo
exhibition by 2014 winner,
Elizabeth Jane Balcomb,
runs from 2 September
to 4 October 2015.
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SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
Auguries of
Innocence
Elizabeth Jane Balcomb
Overall Winner 2014
After centuries of the human mind measuring, structuring, and
imposing meaning on the world around us, there is now a deep
desire to understand the relationship between the human being
and the world in a different way. Our desire to control and exploit
the earth has moved us irremediably towards destroying it. We
are beginning to recognise that the earth is a living organism that
has its own life forms that have their own rights of existence as
much as we have ours.
Our destinies as humans are irretrievably linked with the earth
and all its life forms. But to move away from being in the world
as though we control it to being in the world as though we share
it requires a huge shift in the way we understand ourselves and
our relationship with our other-than-human compatriots. We
need to stop seeing these beings as objects for our use and start
seeing them as fellow citizens with whom we have to live and
share resources. Such a way of being in the world is not alien to
the human race. Our indigenous ancestors understood the world
like this centuries before us. They believed everything has life and
therefore everything has agency.
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The Pieta
42 cm x 35 cm x 40 cm
Bronze
SOLO EXHIBITION
Submit
130 cm x 33 cm x 47 cm
Bronze
She forces us to
imagine ourselves
sharing with them,
not simply at the level
of outward things,
but ontologically, at
the level of our very
beings and bodies.
Such agency needs simply to be recognised, respected, and
related with. The shift we need to make in our relationship with
the earth starts in our imaginations. And this is where artists can
so often help us. Their genius is to imagine and articulate in their
art where we are and where we should be. Elizabeth Balcombs
art does this. She recognises that the body is the instrument
through which we relate with the bodies of other beings with
whom we share the planet.
She forces us to imagine ourselves sharing with them, not simply
at the level of outward things, but ontologically, at the level of our
very beings and bodies. This causes us either to be astonished or
offended. Offended because we have been taught to believe that
separate existences are right and hybrids are wrong.
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But this is not how life happens. Hybridity is how life happens.
And hybridity is whole-ness. So we need rather to rediscover
the astonishment that has been banished from the protocols of
conceptually driven, rational enquiry in its attempt to separate,
measure, compartmentalise and control. Such astonishment
augurs the arrival of a new appreciation of the innocence of the
beings with whom we share this planet, our complicity in their
destruction, and a kind of vulnerability that can be overcome not
by the exercise of mastery but the recognition of equality.
I am you
160 cm x 60 cm x 45 cm
Bronze & found objects
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SOLO EXHIBITION
To be human
70 cm x 32 cm x 16 cm
Paper clay & wood
I am you
62 cm x 22 cm x 22 cm
Bronze & found object
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WINNERS
1996
2001
1991
1997
2002
1992
Merit award: Candice Breitz Karin Lijnes,
Grant Carlin Marco Cianfanelli,
Nicole Donald, Martin Steyn
Runners-up: Liekie Fouch, Katie Bristowe,
Stephen Klei, Luan Nel, Henk Serfontein,
Anita Lategan
1998
Judges award: Retha Erasmus,
Albert Redelinghuys, Sanette du Plessis
Merit awards: Brad Hammond,
Zonia Nel, Konrad Schoeman
2003
First prize: Talita van Tonder
Judges award: Bronwyn Hanger,
Merit award, Zander Blom,
Haidee Nel, Emily Stainer,
Bronwen Vaughan-Evans,
Gina Waldman
1993
1999
2004
2000
Acknowledgements: Michael
Croeser, Emmanuel Moutswi,
Christian Nerf, Julia Raynham,
Zach Taljaard, Roelof van Wyk,
Gina Waldman, Reney Warrington
1994
Judges prize: Miriam Stern,
Frauke Knobl, Wilma van der Meyden
1995
Judges prize: Henk Serfontein,
Wim Botha, M J Lourens
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WINNERS
2005
First prize: Elmarie Costandius &
Sean Slemon
Judges award: Sean Slemon, Brendan
Cahill Ismail Farouk, Christiaan Hattingh,
Mphapho Hlasane, Nomthunzi Mashalaba,
Anne Celest Nel, Mushaathama Neluheni,
Jacobus Sieberhagen
2006
2009
Overall winner: Marijke van Velden
Runner-up: Amita Makan
Merit awards: Poorvi Bhana, Peter Mikael
Campbell, Angela Vieira de Jesus, Abri
Stephanus de Swardt, Jeanine Visser
2010
2013
2011
2014
Merit awards:
Lucienne Pallas Bestall, Bongani Innocent
Khanyile, Lorienne Lotz, Josua Strmpfer,
Colleen Winter
2007
2008
2012
Overall winner:
Ingrid Jean Bolton
Runner-up: Mandy Martin
2015
Overall winner: Nelmarie du Preez
Runner-up: Mareli Janse van Rensburg
Merit awards:
Rory Lance Emmett, Nazeerah Jacub,
Bronwyn Merlistee Katz, Sethembile
Msezane, Colleen Winter
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JUDGES REPORT
Judges Report
Sasol New Signatures
winners, 2015
OVERALL WINNER
to shout (2013)
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JUDGES REPORT
MERIT AWARD
Transcending
RUNNER-UP
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JUDGES REPORT
MERIT AWARD
MERIT AWARD
Identity origins
As a 22-year-old female Muslim South African, the artist is of the opinion that visual art is
not something that is explored within her community. For the larger part, art is seen as a
hobby for older woman to occupy themselves within the confines of their own homes. With
this artwork, Jacub attempts to marry the importance of visual art with the Muslim culture
by creating a painted prayer mat.
As she considers herself to be a hybrid of influences, Jacub composed the prayer mat using
oil paint on silk incorporating Indian and Islamic patterns and motifs in order to ground
her identity and manifest the importance of her Islamic faith. Furthermore, the prayer mat
(Mus Allah) appears tattered from use, further emphasising her love for prayer (through
consistent use). While Islamic prayer is often performed within a confined space, the artist
celebrates this act of prayer by offering the prayer mat to the viewer in the form of an
artwork which is, in a sense, freed from its cultural and religious geography.
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MERIT AWARD
Pupa
MERIT AWARD
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A special
thank you
to our judges
Sasol and the Association of Arts would like to
express their heartfelt gratitude to the Sasol
New Signatures judges, both regionally and
nationally, who give of their valuable time
to evaluate and select the winners from the
hundreds of entries received.
Thank you for your great contribution to the
success of this magnificent exhibition.
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Johannesburg
Stellenbosch
Kim Berman
Shoni Mpangwa Netshia
Anton Karstel
Vulindlela Nyoni
Hentie van der Merwe
Pieter Binsbergen
(National Chairperson)
Gordon Froud
Cecile Loedolff
Gwen Miller
Berni Searle
Pretoria
Frikkie Eksteen
Pfundzo Sidogi
Avi Sooful
Bloemfontein
Angela de Jesus
Gerrit Hattingh
Elrie Joubert
Durban
Wayne Reddiar
Themba Shibase
Jenny Stretton
Cape Town
Gabriel Clark-Brown
Fritha Langerman
Emma Willemse
Grahamstown
Maureen de Jager
Brent Meistre
Tanya Poole
Port Elizabeth
Greg Kerr
David Jones
Anthony Harris
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