Bag Factory [ Residency]

www.bagfactoryart.org.za

The Bag Factory Studios, part of a not for profit company Fordsburg Artists’ Studios, was set up in Johannesburg in 1990 as a permanent studio base for artists. An initiative stemming from the Thupelo workshops, The Bag Factory houses 16 permanent studios, three residency studios and an exhibition space. The Bag Factory also runs an extensive community programme involving educational workshops linked to the work of visiting and permanent artists.

The Bag Factory is the model upon which Gasworks, in London, is based.

Coordinators:
Koulla Xinisteris
James French

Thupelo Johannesburg [ Workshop ]

www.greatmoreart.org/what_is_thupelo.htm

Thupelo International Artists’ Workshop was established in Johannesburg in 1985. 'Thupelo' means 'to teach by example'.

Thupelo Workshop took place at various locations outside the city, including Hunters Rest in the Magaliesburg and the Alpha Training Centre Boedestroom, organised in collaboration with the Johannesburg Art Foundation.

The workshop ran annually until 1991. By 1989, Thupelo had established a gallery in the basement of the premises occupied by FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists) in Newtown, which ran until 1992.

In 1995 Jill Trappler, Lionel Davis and Garth Erasmus, convened a Working Group in Cape Town and the workshop has become an established annual or biannual event. In 2006 the first Thupelo Workshop was held in Durban and in the same year at Rorke’s Drift in KwaZulu-Natal. Thupelo has been an informal feature of the art scene in South Africa for more than 20 years.

Coordinators:
Bongi Dhlomo
David Koloane
Bill Ainslie
Jill Trappler
Garth Erasmus
Lionel Davis

In 1995, Thupelo Workshop moved to Cape Town.

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