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African Art Group.org is a non-profit initiative dedicated to promoting the talents and artwork of selected African Artists through a virtual platform dedicated to a celebration and preservation of Africa and African heritage through visual art.

This artist-friendly platform is dedicated to championing established and new talent in an accessible, inclusive and transparent approach making sure that artists are getting their fair share of recognition across the continent and beyond. This platform combines artists from diverse cultures and regions on a single portal managed by African ACES – the African Arts, Culture, Education & Sports Trust, a registered NPO.

African Art Group aims to become the first and most important not-for-profit art platform for Southern African cultural artists and is striving to be a significant generator of income and resources to rural and urban cultural artists across the continent. Initial funding for this project has been provided with the assistance of the National Arts Council.

PHASE TWO APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

AfricanArtGroup.org (AAG), a non-profit film production and marketing initiative is offering a unique promotional opportunity to South African artists by creating an exclusive documentary video on you and your work for multichannel platforms and adding a personalized webpage on a comprehensive web platform designed exclusively to exhibit traditional and contemporary African art.

Emerging and established artists from diverse cultures across South Africa who need a promotional platform
and desire to become part of the project are invited to apply for selection to the group.

Phase two of this amazing initiative is funded by the National Lotteries Commission

Download the application form by clicking the button below

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APPLICATIONS CLOSE 15 AUGUST 2024

Art Categories

Select from the categories below to visit the page of artists, watch their videos and browse their art.

Painters

Clay / Pottery

Mosaic

Sculpture

Our Featured Artist

Mongezi Gum

Born in Langa, Mongezi Gum has been passionate about art from a young age. After moving to Johannesberg, he studied drawing, sculpture and printmaking, and earned his Diploma in Fine Arts in 1994 from the Johannesberg Art Foundation. He has exhibited at the South African National Gallery, Artscape, AVA, Everard Read and Roots Art Gallery, among others.

During the course of his career, Gum spent a number of years working from Greatmore Studios in Woodstock, where he further developed his signature colourful, expressionist style depicting township and village scenes.

Gum’s process is as significant as the artworks themselves, and the scenes that he depicts. For him, in a number of ways, art is therapy, and his experiences and observations of every-day life are sometimes translated through a spiritual lens that lends an otherworldly element to his work.

During his legacy at 16 on Lerotholi, Gum deviated from his usually colourful style and focused on painting in monochrome. Where township life can be stark and unforgiving, Gum’s paintings depict ease, enjoyment and vibrancy. Black bodies are subjected to violence daily; a fact that often means occupying space is a spirited negotiation, a fight to be seen, an affirmation of selfhood. Gum’s subjects exist in opposition to this.

They are joyful, playful, relaxed and at peace. They embody black joy and love in a way that is natural and necessary. Children play, communities dance and lovers repose in spaces that are safe and intimate.