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Comment: There are two 404s in the references.Note also that it's the Victoria and Alfred, not Albert. Greenman (talk) 20:27, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
Southern Guild is a contemporary art and design gallery located in Cape Town, South Africa.[1]
History
[edit]Founded in 2008 by Trevyn McGowan and Julian McGowan, the gallery represents contemporary African designers and artists including Andile Dyalvane, Porky Hefer, Rich Mnisi and Zizipho Poswa.[2][3]
Southern Guild opened its first permanent gallery space in Woodstock, Cape Town in 2014, and moved to its current location at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in 2017.[4] It was the first African gallery to be invited to showcase at Design Miami in 2011 and at Christie’s London’s annual design auction in 2015. The gallery collaborated Vitra Design Museum on their “Making Africa” exhibition in 2015.[5] They represented South Africa at the 2016 London Design Biennial with an exhibition by artist Porky Hefer at Somerset House, London.[6]
In 2020, the gallery collaborated with the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial on Porky Hefer’s exhibition ‘Plastocene - Marine Mutants from a Disposable World.’[7] and on the exhibition “Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial” at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[8] In 2021 they collaborated with the Friedman Benda gallery in New York on the exhibition ‘iThongo’ (Ancestral Dreamscape) with artist Andile Dyalvane.[9]
The gallery has curated more than 50 exhibitions in South Africa, and been invited to participate in international art fairs including Design Miami, Design Miami/Art Basel, The Salon Art & Design, PAD London, Design Days Dubai, and Collective in New York.[10][11][12]
Artists
[edit]Southern Guild represents several artists, including:[13]
- Adam Birch
- Andile Dyalvane
- Cheick Diallo
- Chuma Maweni
- Conrad Hicks
- Dokter and Misses
- Jesse Ede
- Jozua Gerrard
- Justine Mahoney
- Madoda Fani
- Nandipha Mntambo
- Navel Seakamela
- Patrick Bongoy
- Porky Hefer
- Rich Mnisi
- Shirley Fintz
- Sisonke Papu
- Stanislaw Trzebinski
- Zizipho Poswa
See also
[edit]- ^ DONATI DE CONTI, ELISABETTA (29 April 2019). "SOUTHERN GUILD, THE FIRST CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DESIGN GALLERY". Elle Decorations. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Julian McGowan". Creative Business Network. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ WATSON, JEANNE (August 2017). "SA DESIGN ROYALTY – JULIAN AND TREVYN MCGOWAN". Shoot Mye House. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ Krynauw, Misha (14 June 2022). "'Spring Awakening' at Southern Guild'". Art Throb.
- ^ "Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design". Vitra Design Museum. 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Porky Hefer Endangered Collection, Design Miami Basel". Wallpaper. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Porky Hefer: Plastocene". The Design Edit. 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial". Cooper Hewitt. 2016. Archived from the original on 9 September 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ Carlson, Cajsa (3 March 2021). "Andile Dyalvane draws on Xhosa heritage for iThongo seating collection". Dezeen. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ BURMAN, SUJATA (30 September 2019). "PAD London debuts eleven galleries from South Africa to Barcelona". Wallpaper. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Exhibitions". Southern Guild. 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "DESIGN DAYS DUBAI 1". Frame magazine. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ "Artists". Southern Guild. Retrieved 1 September 2022.