The recently held New Breed Art mentorship session, as an important component of the entire New Breed Art offering this year, was hugely successful, with our expert mentors inspiring local artists to aspire to develop a thriving art career and be competition-ready.
The session on 21 May in Oliewenhuis Art Museum's reservoir was presented by leading artists of the Free State Art Collective, who have also all been former New Breed Art Competition winners and/or finalists. Here local artists had the valuable opportunity to receive personal guidance, mentorship and inspiration from some of our most talented local artists, so as to improve the application of their skills and help them be competition-ready.
The mentors (all members of the Free State Art Collective) on the day specialise in a variety of mediums, allowing for all present to be exposed to different areas of speciality. They were:
• Baitumetse Moloabi, 2021 New Breed Art Competition’s overall winner
• Neo Theku, 2019’s New Breed Art Competition’s overall winner
• Kay Fourie, 2019’s New Breed Art Competition runner-up
• Miné Kleynhans, 2019 New Breed Art Competition Merit Award winner
• Xola Sello, 2018 New Breed Art Competition Merit Award winner
• Bongani Tshabalala, 2019 New Breed Art Competition Public Choice Award winner
• Nandipha Jantjies, 2021 New Breed Art Competition finalist
• Lesego Motsiri, 2021 New Breed Art Competition finalist
“We are confident that the talented local artists who attended this session, have gained much inspiration and invaluable input from our accomplished artists, who have already gone through the competition process, grown and developed much as artists since, and are in fact now building thriving art careers. Aspiring to a successful career in the arts includes embracing development opportunities and entering art competitions, and we look forward to receiving their entries,” says Magdel Louw, Competition Coordinator and Marketing Manager at Phatshoane Henney Attorneys.
CAPTION: The mentors are in front, Baitumetse Moloabi, Neo Theku, Lesego Motsiri and Miné Kleynhans, and at the back, Xola Sello, Nandipha Jantjies, Kay Fourie and Bongani Tshabalala.