About SAartsEmerging

SAartsEmerging.org was originally founded by Nathaniel Stern, Bronwyn Lace and Simon Gush in January 2006 and is currently maintained by Bronwyn Lace and Rat Western.

The site’s featured artists function loosely as a collective and have to date had two physical manifestations, one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town featuring artists from Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and Grahamstown.

SAarts provides a free South African alternative to the gallery-driven and mainstream media platforms in this country. SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet been, written about - but who should be. We aim to ‘discover’ and profile a variety of early-career non-stars working conceptually, and across disciplines.

Once per month, we publish feature/bios on one artist and their work. We accept submissions for these bios, but artists CANNOT write about themselves, and everything is subject to our approval. We want writers we like, to write about artists we like, and sometimes we write the features ourselves. Note that all content is also under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License, so be sure you and the featured artist agree to this. See submission guidelines.