Category Archives: Antiquity

Burnt Offerings Collective at Cheuka Harare Art Fair (CHAF) 2025; LOOK! Take Notice….

Posted on October 30, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

My general report and thoughts on Cheuka Art Fair (CHAF), 2025 are in my associated blog, please do visit that and enjoy the read….. Burnt Offerings Collective at Cheuka Harare Art Fair (CHAF) February 2025…. After my attendance at FNB … Continue reading →

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Map of Africa; Old Light or New Dawn?

Posted on May 25, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

Africa Day 25th May… AFRICA DAY: my painting “Map of Africa” is a brooding, hopeful waterhole lit by the burnt orange glow of the sun beneath the strange and dark horizon… Old Light? …. Or a New Dawn….?! shimmering gold, … Continue reading →

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A Material Practice; Art for Impact; an Earth, a Social, an Art Practice….

Posted on March 19, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

A MATERIAL PRACTICE A workshop on process with Ann Mary Gollifer and Mma Motsei Nkwemabala Facilitated by Dr. Tammy Hodgskiss, (curator at Wits Origins Centre) and Julie Taylor (Guns & Rain Gallery) November 2024 at Origins Centre, WITS University, Jozi. … Continue reading →

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Art Wins the Vote: The Unexpected Outcome of the 2025 Artist General Election!

Posted on March 18, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

STOP PRESS!!! ART WINS!!!!….a collaborative artwork wins the artists general election, as, in a telling twist, clever Richard Mudariki turns the election results themselves into an art collaboration… There is no individual winner after all…….we  all collaborate to contribute to … Continue reading →

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GOATZ; food, family, culture, storytelling, art, proverbs and so much more…

Posted on January 15, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

For 2025, I vote Goat!…. of food, of family, of culture, of art, of drums, of storytelling, of proverbs… Goats, GOATZ, really are the greatest of all time…. Worldwide goats are the GOAT, closely allied to man and domesticated for … Continue reading →

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Helen Lieros, my mentor and master artist: A Practice Underpinned by Persistence and Perseverance;

Posted on December 9, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

Read on- a wonderful article and great memories of Helen Lieros- here is “Sacrificial Goat, mixed media, by Helen – a formidable yet truly accessible artist- a legend indeed- by Tandazani Dhlakama… The late Helen Lieros occupied herself with advancing … Continue reading →

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Njuzu; a Blue Man, a Winged Waterman, takes flight at our Art Exhibition

Posted on June 11, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

Njuzu, Shona/xangana winged water spirit, or Egyptian god resurrected? – our “Blue Man”, interpreted by Zimbabwean master wire Artist Johnson Zuze Continue reading →

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Winged Victory; Beyond Beyoncé

Posted on July 26, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

My work on Nike, the winged Greek goddess of Victory- Constantly sketching and musing over the power of this image…. here I am working on canvas with my own handmade mopani hardwood charcoal …. Nike, who is celebrated in the … Continue reading →

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Gallery Delta, Art for Arts Sake….

Posted on July 20, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

An impressive and evocative art video from a few years back, by Nigel Hulett of Granadilla Films…memories and inspirations. youtube.com/watch “Gallery Delta, Art for Arts Sake…. “ ..listen to music from such as Hope Masike on Mbira, watch art memories … Continue reading →

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The Winged Victory; Flight, Fight and Freedom

Posted on July 14, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

I have always collected fallen feathers, and have been drawing feathers, birds, winged forms and flight obsessively ….. I have just realized how influenced I have been in my subconscious by Nike, the winged Greek Goddess of Victory. She has … Continue reading →

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