Social Impact Arts Prize 2022
The Social Impact Arts Prize awards artists who situate their practices in socially concerned conditions ranging from the environment and climate change to human relations and social pressures of an inequal society.
Exhibitions
celebrating HERITAGE with the YOUTH
The Rupert Museum and artist Ras Silas Motse taught 48 learners from five local schools how to use COLOUR, LINE and SHAPE in graffiti design. The learners created panels with elements of South African heritage and diversity, expressing their pride and joy. The panels are a message to celebrate our country, its people and the youth.
Social Impact Arts Prize Residency & Fellowship
Experience two exhibitions which showcase the Social Impact Art Prize 2022. Gallery 4 features 'Terroir' by Georgia Munnik, who received the Artist Residency in Graaff-Reinet award. The film project, 'Kammakamma’, was created in Stellenbosch by Abri de Swardt, who received an Arts Fellowship.
The Book as Art Object
Artists have been active in book production for centuries, but the artist’s book is a relatively new field of art production, dating back to the late 1960s. Book art straddles the worlds of books and art, and are generally associated with conventional paper codices that are conceptualised as works of art.
Open Call to Artists
We are celebrating spring with the monumental artwork, Colour Symphony by Michéle Nigrini. This popular piece exploring colour theory, features 395 panels of mesmerising colour inspired by botanical forms.
In Conversation with Colour Symphony
In Conversation with Colour Symphony opens a dialogue of 37 artist’s responses to South African artist Michéle Nigrini’s monumental colour theory panel produced in 1993. It marks the first of the Rupert Museum’s public open calls and is done in collaboration with the Imibala Gallery.
OPEN CALL TO THE PUBLIC
The Rupert Museum would like to invite artists and creatives, from any creative industry, platform or profession, to take inspiration from IN-MOTION: Art of the Space Age exhibition from the collection of the Huberte Goote Foundation. Responsive works are to be submitted for possible inclusion in a selling group exhibition to be showcased in the Jan Rupert Art Centre located in Graaff-Reinet from November 2022 to May 2023.
CASTED
In a celebration of sculpture, this exhibition brings together a selection of figurative works in mostly bronze created by sculptors continents and more than a century apart. The selection features a European Master, Old South African Master as well as two contemporary South African Greats and casts a view on shared influences, style, execution, and approach to their practice.
OPEN CALL TO THE PUBLIC
The Rupert Museum invites artists and creatives, from any creative industry, platform or profession, to take inspiration from AbstRacT – the hidden synchrony exhibition from the collections of the Huberte Goote Art Foundation and Rupert Art Foundation.
Bonsai Showcase by Boland Bonsai Kai
In celebration of its 33rd birthday, Boland Bonsai Kai will exhibit some of its best from Thursday, 27 to Sunday, 30 November.
