From the banks of the Vaal to the public sale ground: 4 Gallery on the Greens residents put together to unveil new work, and the proceeds go to the artists
The 2Roads Basis’s artist-first residency enters its remaining weeks with mentorship from Nicholas Hlobo, a brand new everlasting residency constructing at The Different Highway, and a public exhibition and Artwork Public sale in late November
4 of South Africa’s most promising rising artists are finishing new our bodies of labor on the banks of the Vaal River. They are going to quickly put that work earlier than collectors on their very own phrases. The 2Roads Basis’s 2026 Gallery on the Greens Residency closes on 22 November with a public exhibition and Artwork Public sale. The works belong to the artists, and the proceeds from gross sales go on to them, with solely a small fraction returning to the Basis to maintain the programme.
The residents are ceramist Mzwanele “Rez Inyanzi” Tshishonga, painter and printmaker Thulani Gankca, Mpendulo Nkabinde and Shandre Lummis. They had been chosen by means of an open name by a panel of Lerato Molebatsi, Chris Soal, Lulama Wolf, Angela Dimitrakopoulou Comninos, Nicholas Hlobo and Jessica Denyschen.
A residency constructed round what rising artists really want
“There aren’t lots of native residencies,” stated Tshishonga. “As an upcoming artist, it’s by no means only a query of expertise however of networking and who’s conscious of your work otherwise you as a practitioner.”
That hole is the rationale the programme exists. Over eight weeks at The Different Highway, a boutique farm lodge in Meyerton, the residents obtain a stipend, a devoted studio, supplies and curatorial steerage. Weekly workshops and one-on-one mentorship cowl the realities of a working apply: the artwork market, gallery relationships, mental property, digital presence, monetary literacy, working with collectors and public sale readiness. Each chosen artist is assured a spot within the closing exhibition and public sale.
“We wished to offer African artists greater than studio area. We wished to offer them a highway: time to create, mentors who’ve walked the trail earlier than them, and the sensible information to construct lasting careers,” stated Mr Kingsley Duba, Chairman of the 2Roads Group and Founding father of the 2Roads Basis. “When their work sells, the reward belongs to them. That’s what we stand for.”
The work
Mzwanele “Rez Inyanzi” Tshishonga (34) is a ceramist, researcher and educator from Gqeberha. He started with pictures, following his photographer father, earlier than turning to ceramics and sculpture throughout his wonderful artwork research at Wits, the place he lately accomplished his grasp’s diploma. On the residency, he has created clay sculptures impressed by the Vaal River and rooted in African folklore and ancestral beliefs about water, spirituality, therapeutic and cultural information. He’s co-founder of eMafini Arts.
Thulani Gankca (33) is a self-taught artist, painter and printmaker raised between Thokoza in Gauteng and eNgcobo village within the Japanese Cape. He left a profession in human sources in 2018 to comply with artwork, and educated in printmaking and portray at Artist Proof Studio from 2020 to 2023. His new physique of labor, working title “Knowledge Keepers”, treats the tree species across the Vaal River as silent witnesses to the connection between folks and nature. It additionally displays on the knowledge keepers in his circle of relatives. “I imagine the lesson I stroll away with is that progress can typically be sluggish, but it surely doesn’t imply it’s not occurring,” he stated.
Mpendulo Nkabinde works between KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg. His apply explores the erasure of indigenous information methods, with explicit consideration to spoken language. Drawing on his grandmother’s oral storytelling, he asks how information is valued, preserved and handed on.
Shandre Lummis explores decolonial pondering by means of questions of Colored and Khoi/San identification. Working from lived expertise and moments of protest in historical past, Lummis brings collectively fragments of non-public and collective reminiscence to look at how methods of energy are fashioned, sustained and remodeled.
Contained in the residency
- Nicholas Hlobo within the studio: within the residency’s newest workshop, the acclaimed artist and choice panellist spent one-on-one time with every resident. He reviewed works in progress and shared insights from his personal apply.
- David Krut Workshop, Arts on Foremost: the residents had been launched to linocut, woodcut and etching, with a hands-on letterpress demonstration.
- August Home: a studio go to and dialog with artist Nwabisa Ntlokwana.
- Artwork meets trade: in an uncommon transfer for an arts programme, the residents toured the 2Roads Group’s industrial services in Germiston. A number of discovered connections between ceramics, rubber and polyurethane wear-lining supplies and their very own practices.
A everlasting dwelling for future artists
The 2Roads Basis is constructing a everlasting residency construction at The Different Highway: 5 en-suite bedrooms with studio area. This makes the farm a long-lasting dwelling for future cohorts.
From Meyerton to Geneva
The programme has a world dimension. In June 2026, work by the inaugural cohort, Sibusiso Molwantwa, Lemé Arends, Alfred Kitsi and Victor Eniola, was proven at Artium Gallery in Geneva in “2ROADS: World Avenues, Navigating New Horizons”. The Basis is working to construct on that for future cohorts.
Exhibition and Artwork Public sale
The 2026 residents will current their work in an exhibition in Johannesburg in the course of the week of 23 November 2026, culminating within the Artwork Public sale. The venue, viewing instances and public sale particulars shall be introduced shortly at 2roadsfoundation.org.za.
