Competition news

Elretha Britz reports in Volksblad and on Netwerk24 that the New Breed Art Competition has done actually what it set out to do: which is to uncover emerging Free State. Read the full article here.

Following months of preparation and weeks of waiting to hear who the selected artists are whose works have been chosen for exhibition in Oliewenhuis Art Museum, and whose works are in line to be announced as winner on 17 November, these artworks are on show from 20 October to 27 November, writes Elretha Britz in Volksblad and Netwerk24.

Entries for the Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition have far exceeded expectations, with 216 artworks being received from all over the Free State, writes Elretha Britz in Volksblad and on Netwerk24.

The Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition for upcoming artists in the Free State could not have arrived at a better time, writes Elretha Britz in Volksblad and on Netwerk24. It now compensates for the void left by Barclays L’Atelier cancelling all regional rounds outside of Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Makara Tsoenyane, a gifted artist from Phase 6, Bloemfontein, creates and sells his art from his deceased grandmother's house in the township, while also teaching children in surrounding schools how to practise art and make a living from it at the same time. He will be entering the Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition and should he win, hopes to buy his own vehicle to transport his artworks himself. Read the full article here as it appeared in Volksblad today.

An overwhelming number of artists from all over the Free State attended the Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition information session at Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, 3 May.

Today is the official launch of the Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition, presented in association with Oliewenhuis Art Museum. This first-of-its-kind Free State visual arts competition is aimed at discovering new and emerging Free State-based artists, and to provide broad corporate and public exposure to showcase contemporary art from the province.

An iconic image for the launch of Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition has been unveiled today. The striking human figure shows strands of a DNA helix merging with a human form, signifying the evolution of man, thinking and method. With subtle references to the Vitruvian Man, but evolved in a way even Leonardo da Vinci could not have imagined, it is a bold image which creates the necessary emotive visual connection between man, art, artist and the future.