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Sep 23

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True to his ethos of working in community, @rich_mnisi collaborated with local creative studios to realise his latest furniture collection, ‘Nyoka’, for Southern Guild. The result is a collectible body of work produced with skill, craftsmanship and a shared spirit of creation. Here he learns more about beading from @monkeybizcape artisans Moipone Hlalele and Nomthunzi Zelanga. #southernguild #richmnisi #nyoka #collectibledesign #functionalart #collectiblefurniture #artfurniture #sculptural #snake #fluid #fluidity #design #africandesign #africandesigner #tsonga #africancraft #craft #beauty #HeritageMonth #CelebrateSouthAfrica #GlobalSouthAfricans #artdesign #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #designer #collaboration #making #artistprocess
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Sep 23

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What slithers here? A sneaky, snaky sculpture – or is it a table? All will be revealed when @rich_mnisi’s solo exhibition, ’Nyoka’, opens next Saturday, 2 October. #southernguild #richmnisi #nyoka #collectibledesign #functionalart #collectiblefurniture #artfurniture #sculptural #snake #fluid #fluidity #design #africandesign #africandesigner #tsonga #africancraft #craft #beauty #HeritageMonth #CelebrateSouthAfrica #GlobalSouthAfricans #artdesign #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #designer #bronze #beadwork #africanbeadwork
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Sep 23

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Many hands helped make @rich_mnisi’s pieces for ‘Nyoka’, his forthcoming collection (opening Saturday, 2 October), including those of skilled beaders in the @monkeybizcape team. This inspiring not-for-profit provides social and economic upliftment for female artisans in Cape Town’s townships. They typically work from home, in support of the multiple roles they play as mothers and carers, and to avoid the costs of commuting into Cape Town. Their beaded creations have the caught the world’s attention and they have collaborated with LA-based artists @thehaasbrothers, among others. We look forward to telling the story of their collaboration with Mnisi, as we count down to the opening of his first solo show. #southernguild #richmnisi #nyoka #collectibledesign #functionalart #collectiblefurniture #artfurniture #sculptural #snake #fluid #fluidity #design #africandesign #africandesigner #tsonga #africancraft #craft #beauty #HeritageMonth #CelebrateSouthAfrica #GlobalSouthAfricans #artdesign #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #designer #handmade #artisan #beadwork #africanbeadwork
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Sep 21

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There’s a dangerous sensuality in @rich_mnisi’s designs for ‘Nyoka’, his first solo exhibition of furniture. A curved console is punctuated by the winding form of a muscular bronze snake – the central symbol of the collection. ‘Nyoka’ wrestles with the duelling forces of fear and pleasure, fright and freedom felt so keenly by Mnisi’s generation of post-Apartheid peers, but that are also innate to the human experience. “To live is to embrace this duality. To accept that joy and tragedy, light and darkness, dreams and nightmares are connected, orbiting and defining each other,” Mnisi states. ‘Nyoka’ by Rich Mnisi opens on Saturday, 2 October 2021 (until 4 February 2022). Photo by @christofvdwalt #southernguild #richmnisi #nyoka #collectibledesign #functionalart #collectiblefurniture #artfurniture #sculptural #snake #fluid #fluidity #design #africandesign #africandesigner #tsonga #africancraft #craft #beauty #HeritageMonth #CelebrateSouthAfrica #GlobalSouthAfricans #artdesign #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #designer
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Sep 21

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Southern Guild is thrilled to announce @rich_mnisi’s first solo exhibition of collectible furniture, titled ‘Nyoka’ (“snake” in Xitsonga), opening on Saturday, 2 October. A designer at the very forefront of African fashion, Rich Mnisi founded his eponymous label in 2015. Born in Kempton Park, Johannesburg in 1991, he graduated from LISOF School of Fashion in 2014 and was named @afi_sa Young Designer of the Year at @mbfashionweeksa that same year. Widely heralded for his fusion of contemporary pop culture and traditional African heritage, Mnisi’s designs infuse his own personal narrative into extremist yet minimalist structures. He works across genders, seasons, geographical lines and creative disciplines, with a twin devotion to craftsmanship and experimentation. He draws influences from film, music and photography, and frequently art directs editorial and campaign shoots. Mnisi made his furniture debut with two pieces for Southern Guild in 2018: ‘Nwa-Mulamula's Chaise’ and ‘Nwa-Mulamula's Tears’. These organic-shaped pieces are a homage to the memory of his late great-grandmother, an ever-present guardian whose teachings have lived on in his family through storytelling generation after generation. His second seating collection, ‘Alkebulan’, was commissioned by Southern Guild in 2019. In the same year, he won Emerging Designer of the Year at the @essence Best in Black Fashion Awards in New York and also made the 2019 @forbes #30under30 List.Portrait by @uglybruv #southernguild #richmnisi #nyoka #collectibledesign #functionalart #collectiblefurniture #artfurniture #sculptural #snake #fluid #fluidity #design #africandesign #africandesigner #tsonga #africancraft #craft #beauty #HeritageMonth #CelebrateSouthAfrica #GlobalSouthAfricans #artdesign #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #designer
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Sep 21

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“My mother dreamt of a snake on her back. When she turned to look at it, she saw an intense green creature, frightening and fluid, dangerous and beautiful.” ‘Nyoka’, @rich_mnisi’s first solo exhibition of collectible furniture, wrestles with the idea of beauty distilled from darkness. The collection draws on Mnisi’s family history and African mythology, and plays with the duality of fear and beauty epitomised by the image of a snake, which gives the show its Tsonga title. ‘Nyoka’ by Rich Mnisi opens on Saturday, 2 October 2021 (until 4 February 2022).Photo by @christofvdwalt #southernguild #richmnisi #nyoka #collectibledesign #functionalart #collectiblefurniture #artfurniture #sculptural #snake #fluid #fluidity #design #africandesign #africandesigner #tsonga #africancraft #craft #beauty #HeritageMonth #CelebrateSouthAfrica #GlobalSouthAfricans #artdesign #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #designer
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Sep 17

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The @investeccapetownartfair's first digital event is now live (until 19 September 2021) – and we have a diverse and exciting collection of works on display in our online viewing room. This includes work by established Southern Guild artists such as @adam_birch_sculpts @conradhicks_artistblacksmith @trevor_rp_potter and @trzebinski_sculpture as well as newcomers such as @jozuagerrard . Highlights include a new work from @zizipo_poswa's ‘Magodi’ series, Beninese artist @atelierzinkpe’s first sculpture in bronze, two ceramics from @fanimadoda's current ‘iQweqwe’ collection, and a mask from Gerrard's sell-out solo, ‘Loveland’. Southern Guild is also featuring important works from recent solo exhibitions by artists including @andiledyalvane's ‘Idladla’, @dokterandmisses' ‘Practically Everywhere’, @justine.mahoney 's ‘Mage’, and one work from @nandiphamntambo’s oeuvre in anticipation of her solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2022.Pictured here: ‘The Truth’ by @conradhicks_artistblacksmith 2020
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190 x 60 x 64 cm
One-off#southernguild #ictaf #capetownartfair #artfair #capetown #digitalartfair #southafricanart #southafricandesign #contemporaryart #functionalart #fineart #africanart #africandesign #collectibledesign #ceramics #ceramicart #sculpture #ziziphoposwa #andiledyalvane #trevorpotter #madodafani #dokterandmisses #nandiphamntambo #jozuagerrard #adambirch #conradhicks #dominiquezinkpe #justinemahoney #stanislawtrzebinski
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Sep 17

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The @investeccapetownartfair's first digital event is now live (until 19 September 2021) – and we have a diverse and exciting collection of works on display in our online viewing room. This includes work by established Southern Guild artists such as @adam_birch_sculpts @conradhicks_artistblacksmith @trevor_rp_potter and @trzebinski_sculpture as well as newcomers such as @jozuagerrard. Highlights include a new work from @zizipo_poswa's ‘Magodi’ series, Beninese artist @atelierzinkpe’s first sculpture in bronze, two ceramics from @fanimadoda's current ‘iQweqwe’ collection, and a mask from Gerrard's sell-out solo, ‘Loveland’. Southern Guild is also featuring important works from recent solo exhibitions by artists including @andiledyalvane's ‘Idladla’, @dokterandmisses' ‘Practically Everywhere’, @justine.mahoney 's ‘Mage’, and one work from @nandiphamntambo’s oeuvre in anticipation of her solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2022.Pictured here: ‘Magodi - Nokwanda’ by @zizipo_poswa 2021
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One-off#southernguild #ictaf #capetownartfair #artfair #capetown #digitalartfair #southafricanart #southafricandesign #contemporaryart #functionalart #fineart #africanart #africandesign #collectibledesign #ceramics #ceramicart #sculpture #ziziphoposwa #andiledyalvane #trevorpotter #madodafani #dokterandmisses #nandiphamntambo #jozuagerrard #adambirch #conradhicks #dominiquezinkpe #justinemahoney #stanislawtrzebinski