Art Angels Africa brought their annual charity auction to London for the first time this month, auctioning works by top South African artists. Several Everard Read artists donated works for the auction, including Beezy Bailey, Deborah Bell, Phillemon Hlungwani, Angus Taylor, Rina Stutzer, Lionel Smit, Colbert Mashile, Dylan Lewis and Nic Bladen, along with Sam Nhlengethwa and Marco Cianfanelli. 

"Animals reinforce a political statement: Colbert Mashile draws from African traditions where clans have animal totems, to produce surreal works" by Mary Corrigall, published in Businessday, South Africa, 11th April 2017

Colbert Mashile: Truth or Dare at Everard Read Cape Town until 7 May 2017.

"I make art intuitively. I don’t try to be too obvious or too serious. I use the animal characters as a way of storytelling."

Everard Read I CIRCA Gallery will present a solo exhibition of work by Colbert Mashile at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Colbert is an artist who has developed a unique iconographical language within South African art, often dealing with the mystical, mythological and archaic elements of traditional African culture and its legacy in present-day life.

ART AFRICA met with South African artist, Colbert Mashile, at his studio in the historic August House in downtown Johannesburg to discuss the symbolism in his work and his path as an internationally-acclaimed artist.

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