Catching the Wind. Strijdom van der Merwe. Echigo Tsumari Triennale, Japan, 2018. View a video of the artwork on facebook >>
During Greenpop’s first Eden Festival of Action over 4,000 trees were planted by 265 participants and volunteers. Operating from Peace of Eden Vegan and Eco Lodge in Rheenendal, the festival’s sites spread throughout the surrounding areas ranging from Knysna, Plettenberg Bay and Sedgefield to Touwsranten, … Continued
By Green Renaissance “I believe with all my heart that we can create cities and towns that are functioning like a forest. How to really thrive on this planet is all around us.” – Sue Swain Follow more of … Continued
Natalie Jeremijenko’s unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting “fish,” planting fire-hydrant gardens and more.
By Patrick Dowling Published in the WESSA (The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa) newsletter Beyond the clamour around who’s to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of day zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, … Continued
Using only specially designed tools and sand as materials, Andrew van der Merwe sculpts transient artworks on beaches across South Africa… I’ve had the privilege to attend one of his workshops during Stories of Rain – the South African leg … Continued
Mural by Li-Hill Photo by Tre’ Packard – Source From the artist’s website: BIO Li-Hill is a Canadian visual artist currently based out of Brooklyn, who employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculptural elements within his works. With a background in graffiti … Continued
Heath Nash is well-known for his work created from plastic. A simple and quick Ecosia search turns up this incredible page of images: He’s also been involved by an incredible project that spans and connects the distances between Zambia and … Continued
The artistic Lanzarote vineyards of the volcanic Canary Islands are not only completely innovative, but also beautiful. Lanzarote, as mentioned in a previous post, is one of the Canary Islands, and was once home to an accomplished artist, César Manrique. … Continued
The Rhino, made out of the branches of a fallen tree, was constructed as a rubbish bin. This gesture is a comment on how we treat animals as consumer (throw away) products, in many cases resulting in extinction. Scientists have … Continued
Beautiful photography and poetry by Natascha van Niekerk: Read more or purchase prints >>
By Leli Hoch The Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP) 2017, initiated 2013 by Yatoo, Korea, took place in Europe after having toured South Africa in 2016, India in 2015 and Korea in 2014. Starting in July 2017 invited artists have … Continued
‘The African continent has a large and growing role in the global carbon cycle, with potentially important climate change implications.’ (Williams, et al., 2007) Introduction In order to avoid future, catastrophic, climate change we need to urgently and significantly reduce … Continued
Many of us have seen a Zen garden before and some of us had the chance to rake the many lines. Are you one of those lucky ones? If you are, leave a comment below to tell us about your … Continued
Land artist, Strijdom van der Merwe, gives us the chance to lose ourselves in his Zen garden, Stone Garden. Stone Garden can be found at The Sanctuary in Somerset West, South Africa. To visit Strijdom van der Merwe’s website, click here. … Continued
iThemba Tower is a community art project in the garden of the Spaza Art Gallery in Troyeville, Johannesburg, made with over 7 000 recycled plastic drinks bottles decorating a decommissioned 20m high cellular tower. Read more about it at the … Continued
Thank you, Di Smith from G2 Art Gallery in Cape Town, for sharing this with me: Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q262D… Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the … Continued
Using a rake to draw a river and giant water drops in a dry river bed. Strijdom van der Merwe Namtib, Namibia 2016
Faith47’s time lapse of her beautiful giant mural on a building in Sandton, Johannesburg, created in April 2017. Isn’t it incredible? Seen at: source
Very interesting and important article about collaborative projects and the amazing potential it provides – artists co-creating through art, storytelling and dance on wine farms: “Importers of South African wines can now collaborate in social development projects in the South … Continued
This artwork is not necessarily chosen as the artwork of the week on its own as a single work, but rather because it forms part of an inspiring and important approach to art. Lesley Kendall paints from life, making art … Continued
Support Khayaweb! Funds are currently being raised to develop a website to promote Khayelitsha. The website will feature organisations and people doing good things in Khayelitsha currently not featured in the world wide web. Khayelitsha is Cape Town’s largest township. … Continued
The Garden Route fire that spread widely and caused much devastation in its wake (to nature, towns and human lives), began in the early hours of 7 June 2017. This is a date we shouldn’t soon forget. This date was … Continued
This week we feature a project rather than a single artwork. Follow the link below to see more of the works that form part of this wonderful project. Sutherland Reflections: a project by Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter 2008 – … Continued
So I attended Conversations in Conservation at Fairy Knowe in Wilderness. And I’m so glad I did! It was informative, inspiring and interesting. Some of the highlights for me were: Gabriel Scholtz (Working For Water– Invasive clearing and the SANPARKS … Continued
3 stages of drying Dandelion leaf and root photo-sketched. At three separate drying stages Patch moved the plant material to air the process, preventing mold and to prevent the plant material from sticking to the wood surface. Each reset becomes … Continued
Marking Time Matthew Harding 2008 Dimensions variable Natural Granite Tors with engraved tally representing 40 millennia of Aboriginal presence in the Australian landscape. Site Specific Installation, Palmer Environmental Sculpture Exhibition 2008, Palmer, SA View more >>
The Eco-Shrine Centre for Art and Ecology created by Diana Graham in Hogsback in 1995 Visit the Eco Shrine website >>
In an ongoing long-term project Imke Rust researches the ancient traditions of rainmaking and how the combination of art and ritual could be used in a modern context to create rain. “The rainmaker experiments and ideas which I am collecting … Continued
2017 Trailer of STORIES OF RAIN Iranian documentary film – A documentation of the nature art project in South Africa as part of the Global Nomadic Art Project. This video is made by Reyhane Omid Ghaemi.