Artist Rizah Potgieter has been hard at work creating Mitchell’s Plain’s Longest Mural—an ode to community pride and marine life awareness.

Mitchell’s Plain, South Africa (06 March 2024) — Artists, volunteers and community members have all played their part in helping make Mitchell’s Plain’s longest mural possible.

A legacy in blue, the ‘longest mural’ (also known as the Poseidon Mural) seeks to bring a sense of beauty, calmness and awareness to Mitchell’s Plain. In an big way, its breathtaking size makes the topic of climate change and its impact on our oceans hard to ignore with sea characters on vibrant display. In even bigger ways, it stands to show people the beauty that their area can call home; cultivating a sense of community pride and responsibility.

Led by mural wizard Rizah Potgieter who was also behind another iconic mural last year (“Standing Tall”, a 22-metre high mural in Khayelitsha that captured netball player Phumza Maweni), the Posideon project was a collaborative effort that saw many people unite for its creation.

 

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PAINT, an artivist organisation on a mission to transform neighbourhoods and non-profit ArtBridge teamed up to ensure that Mitchell’s Plain’s Longest Mural would become something for Cape Town to be proud of. For the team, this wasn’t singularly about marine life awareness or art’s positive impact on communities, but both in unison.

Says Mikal Ernest Bell, Founder of PAINT, “The initial objective was bringing the two communities together, this will therefore be the culmination. The artwork on either side of the wall has greatly contributed in bringing about peace in these two communities that has been ravaged by crime and gang violence.”

The more we make the hard topics accessible and the more we let art bring people together, the better chance we have for a South Africa that understands that no matter where you come from or what challenges you’ve faced, you can still make an impact on our future.

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So many office items ended up as waste or in landfills, during and after the pandemic. But what would these items look like if instead, they had a second chance at life? The upcoming UPCYCLE exhibition is gearing up to give us a look:

Cape Town, South Africa (05 March 2024) — The spaces we work in have changed greatly in the past four years. But, so has our relationship with the biggest space of all—the planet we call home. Merging these two ideas and inviting us all to be freely inspired by them, is the UPCYCLE Exhibition, set to pop up in Cape Town next month.

The exhibition’s organisers believe that the working world has massive potential to join in on the circularity movement—ie: the upcycling movement which gives waste a chance to be reworked into treasure.

Reconfiguration of the workspace in the post-Covid world has led to a mounting tide of discarded office equipment and furniture that either lazes around in storage, ends up on an over-supplied second-hand market, or worse—in landfill.

But, with clever designers and artists playing a critical role in imagining new possibilities for the things that fill up our spaces, hopes are hot that creative change can make an important dent in influencing the corporate world to get on board with the conscious world.

The UPCYCLE exhibition then, is on a mission to tackle the bigger issues of sustainability and regenerative design through the vehicle of unbounded creativity. Not limited by function and challenged to create a thought-provoking spectacle that will ignite powerful conversation, a select group of designers and artists have been tasked with breathing bold new life into discarded office equipment and furniture pieces.

Among the exhibition’s participants are Congolese artist Patrick Bongoy, sisters Viveka and Rucita Vassen of Ananta Design Studio, Nisha and Justus van der Hoven of Hoven Design, Laurie Wiid of Wiid Design, Amaury Watine, who is the Creativity and Innovation Director Tétris EMEA, Adrian Davidson.

The exhibition will be open to the public at Makers Landing at V&A Waterfront on 19 and 20 April 2024. On Friday 19 April, design students will be welcomed for a special student-focused day, and on Saturday 20 April there will be a free curated walkabout with the artists and designers at 11h00. 

Get ready to explore the future of the workspace!

• Date: 19-20 April 2024 
• Venue: Makers Landing, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
• Opening hours: 10h00-21h00, Friday-Saturday
• Cost:  Entrance to the exhibition and Makers Landing is free
• Parking: Secure paid parking is available at Makers Landing

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It’s a wrap on the Sea Walls Project that took over Cape Town recently, and the results are a lasting legacy that will hopefully ‘sea’ great change. Have a look:

Cape Town, South Africa (29 November 2023) — The inaugural Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans public art project in Africa has left a lasting legacy for ocean conservation and community activism in Cape Town!

With a buzz of excitement earlier this month, PangeaSeed Foundation’s Sea Walls South Africa as presented by the Save our Seas Foundation began. The project united mural artists across South Africa and the world to spruce up the walls of 16 buildings in Cape Town for the betterment of the seas close by and far beyond.

The Process

Together,18 mural artists (four from overseas) adorned the walls with powerful works on important ocean topics—from the scourge of plastic pollution to the need for community action to protect ocean livelihoods.

Overseas artists DULK from Spain; Germany’s Yeye Weller; Cracked Ink from New Zealand, and US street artist Lauren YS joined top South African artists Amy Lee Tak, Aweh Migo, Breeze Yoko, Care One, DBongz, Sergical One, Dirty Native, Marie-Louise Koen, Marti Macfly, Motel Seven, SonnySundancer and These10Fingers for the Cape Town activation.

Over the last week, armed with acrylic and spray paints, swing stages or cherry picker cranes, the artists added 18 works to PangeaSeed’s network of more than 500 murals in 19 countries. They worked across a wide area of the Cape Peninsula, including Gardens, Kalk Bay, Newlands, Muizenberg, Sea Point, Camps Bay, Cape Town CBD, and Salt River.

Beyond the Paint

In the lead-up to a week of painting, the artists and visiting team were treated to some of the natural treasures the Cape has to offer and got to be part of keeping these treasures in their best condition. This included a visit to the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Centre, swimming in tidal pools, surfing with the Sentinel Ocean Alliance, and a beach cleanup at Muizenberg with the Beach Co-op.

In addition to the interactions with the city for the team, a number of free-to-the-public events included a youth outreach at a local school, a coastal cleanup, and self-guided driving tours to the murals. The public offering culminated in a free community event that featured short film screenings and a panel discussion about the value of art in communicating science and how important this is to the environmental movement.

The co-founders of Pangeaseed, Tré Packard and Akira Biondo, said they were blown away by the natural beauty of the city and the warm welcome of her people.

“This has been a deeply profound experience. We just want to extend a huge word of thanks to the people of Cape Town. Art enthusiasts, ocean stewards, and lovers of the City of Cape Town all showed great support for this initiative and their involvement has been so appreciated. Also, a massive thank you to all the volunteers who helped make this one of the most memorable Sea Walls yet!”

Why Sea Walls?

For the Pangeaseed Foundation, a drop of paint can create an ocean of change.

As such, the murals are designed to be purpose-driven and educational to inspire ocean stewardship through creativity and visual storytelling. Each artwork draws on locally relevant features or issues, as well as historical legacy, or other challenges facing communities.

CEO of the Save Our Seas Foundation James Lea said: “Striking art can connect with people in a way that science often struggles with, which is why we’re delighted to collaborate again with Sea Walls and Wavescape to present a stunning array of murals across Cape Town that highlight the majesty of our oceans. Through fostering peoples’ connection with nature, we strive to promote ocean stewards who can help advocate for the health of our oceans.”

Of the freshly painted sea walls, Shani Judes, Project Director of Sea Walls South Africa shared:

“These walls have a lifespan of up to seven years, and will serve as a constant reminder to Capetonians and visitors to the Cape of the interconnectedness of all life on our planet, the importance of collaboration in these difficult times, and the vital role of the oceans in sustaining life on Earth.” 

You can find a map to visit the Sea Walls here.

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