Anita Lategan     Anita Kategan was born in 1956 in Lichtenburg and graduated in 1989 from the Pretoria Technikon, with distinctions in painting and jewellery design. From 1991 she lectured at the same institution (later renamed to Tshwane University of Technology, TUT). Since 2007 she works full time as an artist. Her works were exhibited at numerous solo- and group exhibitions in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Michigan (USA). In 2007 her work was shown at the 'Ubuntu' group exhibition in Amsterdam.     Carina Claassens Carina Claassens was born and raised in South Africa, where she grew up on a wild life nature reserve. From 2000 to 2002 she has studied Fine and Applied Art at the Tswane University in Pretoria, with a main focus on Printmaking; Photography; Ceramics; Drawing and Art Theory. After finishing her studies she moved to Mozambique, Maputo when she was 21. and has only recently moved to The Netherlands (April 2005). Her main subject has to do with celebrating Female Forms in all its aspects, with figurative artworks in ceramics, paintings, drawings and etchings. Lately she has experimented with mixed media, Urban design and Video installations. Her preoccupation has shifted to documenting her own memories, using rope to tie them down…  so she may not forget: Who she is. Her artworks have been exhibited at several well-known institutions.     Clifford Charles "Painting is an uninhabited space of not being - yet being. A contradictory and ironical motive: for the action of painting becomes an act of nothingness. Unbundled by the known. Active meditation and contemplation, not to defy or define - just being. Moving to a thoughtless moment of listening (to oneself), till one exhausts words. My South African lessons are many - the futility of ideological battles being only one. All this drew my art into an introspective gaze. Instead of being seduced by sentimental and melancholic images that reflect 'Post Apartheid' programmes, I gazed upon my own reflection. This 'talking to myself' became an attempt to assess my existing patterns of our thinking - a silent self-reflection, moving on to new plateaus."     Danie de Wet Born in Bethal in 1944, Danie de Wet graduated from the Pretoria Technikon with a diploma in Higher Art Education in 1966. Only much later he went back to the Technikon to study painting, and went on to the University if Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the Akademie der Bildende Künste, München. In 1993 he obtained a B.A. (Fine Arts) in painting at UNISA. Today, he is a Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at the Pretoria Technikon and Head of Foundation Studies in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Amidst all the contrasting influences of his extensive formal education, de Wet developed his own praticular, immediately recognisable, style of surrealism, influenced by European (renaissance) as well as South African motives. He is currently working on a Life Odyssey series, in which he highlights certain glimpses of a perceived journey through life. Danie de Wet has held two solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. In addition to private collections, he also has work in the Absa and Sasol collections.      Justice Mokoena       Kgagelo Phiri I am Kgalalelo Phiri, 23 years old , B-Tech student in Fine Arts. Printmaking is what I do and I also did glass design. In printmaking I work with silkscreen and etching. I am highly influenced nature and the everyday paths of life. According to me and what I believe everything in life is defined by a line and shapes and repetition as some in life would all karma, what goes around comes around. My latest work is about the power of the mind and illustrates that     Renier le Roux Renier le Roux grauated from the Technicon Pretoria with distinction in sculpture, drawing and painting and went on as part-time lecturer there. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Pretoria and Johannesburg and won a number of awards (a.o. the Judges Award of the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition) At the moment, his main interest is in sculpture. Replicating common objects in unexpected materials, he draws attention to the exraordinary world of the ordinary.     Runette Kruger Runette Kruger (1971) graduated cum laude from the Tshwane University of Technology in 1991 and has been extremely busy ever since, working as an art historian (she published, for example, about Piet Mondriaan) as well as an artist. She was drawn from the start to ceramics, moulding forms which vaguely resemble, but are not, pots and vases, thus exploring the tension between inside and outside. Of her current work she says: "I Explore the links between ceramics, De Stijl paintings, Mondrian’s writings and ideas, Delft, Eastern and Western philosophy. Tall organic shapes now have flat sections, decorated with Ottoman/Buddhist/Delft patterns; shapes are coiled and scraped. The finish is mat, with various hues of coloured under-glaze slips sprayed on in multiple layers. Unglazed. In my work I am trying to give form to the intangible as well as notions such as the fourth dimension as space, or as the "Eternal Now" of Eastern philosophy." In 2004 she was awarded first prize in the sculpture category at the National Ceramics Exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum.     Moretse Moletsane Seretse Moletsane was born in Sowetho in May 1981. He studied Fine Arts at the former Pretoria Technikon. From 2002 untill 2005 he participated in a number of exhibitions, fashionshows and worked as a Printed image Technical assistant at the Tshwane University of Technology. In 2004 he produced commissioned work for women’s day and for Telkom’s corporate collection. Besides his work as a artist, Seretse is fashiondesigner for Feilpop.       Voor een overzicht van de geëxposeerde werken: zie www.artstable.eu