Fringe News

There is a print in which I got two random pictures to talk to each other in a meaningful way. The randomness was not really just like throwing two completely unrelated things together into one fr...

Comparing robots and cave men

There are two ways of looking at the minefield of pop art. On the one hand it’s seen as an art of high risk-taking by mavericks who’ve escaped the shackles of the politically correct art set. On ...

Covid and animal crackers

When dark cynicism engulfs the world then it is the duty of an artist to face up to reality along with everyone else. It has been over a year that I, as an artist, have not been able to exhibit o...

Telling tales

If I think of my own journey with comic book characters, I remember a young boy growing up in the suburbs eager to know what would happen to me in a place full of conflict and unresolved issues. ...

Universal love thing

The character of Gutinke Meine is a sculpture of a tiny, lovable creature. It is now evolving into a fully functional being in my painting. It is my response to love that is passed down through g...

Scribbling the subconscious

It’s been almost 90 years since Brassai started photographing graffiti on the walls of Paris. Today there’s nothing particularly special about photographing city walls with markings on them by pe...

Party dresses and party poopers

My ongoing infatuation with Alfred E Neuman, the mascot of the now defunct MAD magazine, is really an infatuation with selfie culture. This is influenced mainly by the way that we don’t really ca...

On Paradise Valley

One of the things that struck me, while I was planning my latest series called Paradise Vally, is the inequality in the art world. It’s something that I hoped art could rectify although I don’t k...

Anonymity has some Fringe benefits

The answer can be found at Daville Baillie Gallery, located in Joburg’s trendiest new urban development, Victoria Yards. Or, at least it will be until 29 September, when you can catch the new ex...

Daville Baillie Gallery Johannesburg and Fringe presents “Don’t Blink”

Fringe, Bunny Love, Don’t Blink Series, 150cm X 100 cm, spray on canvas After a meteoric rise, with widespread acclaim and acquisition, the artist known simply as Fringe will hold his ...

Thieves will battle to resell unique artworks heisted from Joburg gallery

Daville Baillie Gallery has been robbed. The thieves appeared to be targeting specific artworks. The brazen robbery of five unique pieces of art at a gallery in Norwood‚ Johanne...